3c Volunteer Firemen single
Object Details
- Description
- This Volunteer Fireman Issue stamp features a portrait of Peter Stuyvesant and early and modern fire engines. The stamp commemorates the 300th anniversary of the organization of the first volunteer firemen in America by Stuyvesant. As governor of New Amsterdam (modern day New York City), Stuyvesant appointed wardens to enforce the fire ordinance rules of the city.
- United States; New York; New Netherlands; New Amsterdam; fire; firemen; volunteer; portrait
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- October 4, 1948
- Object number
- 1980.2493.4053
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch, 1592 - 1672
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (bright rose carmine); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 971
- Topic
- Humanitarian Causes
- Cars & Trucks
- Political Figures
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.4053
