Croton Water Celebration 1842
Croton Water Celebration 1842
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- Description (Brief)
- Color print of a large fountain in a park in the center of a town. The park is fenced off from the streets surrounding it which are lined by multi-storied buildings. A parade is in progress on these streets and a fire-engine pulled by six horses is in the center foreground.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- 1842
- producer
- Atwill, Joseph F.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Measurements
- image: 7 3/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 31.115 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3684
- catalog number
- 60.3684
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Architecture, Domestic Buildings
- Architecture
- Parks, public
- Chronology: 1840-1849
- Fire Fighting
- Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
- Wagons
- Civic Associations
- Holidays and Celebrations, general
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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