PUBLISHER: Published by the La France Fire Engine Company.
MEDIUM: Color lithograph.
DATE: c.1879
EDITION SIZE: Image size 15 13/16 x 21" (40.2 x 53.3 cm).
DESCRIPTION: L. Niessen & Co., 96 & 98 Fulton Street, New York.<br><br> A image of a early La France fire steam pumper. This design is a crane-neck rotary engine and one of the earliest of its type. The date is derived from another advertisement broadside that illustrated the same engine and gave results from a trial in 1878 in Chicago.<br><br> The American La France company was formed 1873 in Elmira, New York. It later moved to Summerville, SC and also operated a plant in Toronto, Canada. Sadly it ceased operations in 2014.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition, save two repaired tears in the outer edges. Backed on Japon paper.
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