Pump, Water
- Object Name:
- Pump, Water
- Object ID:
- 2006.007
- Creator:
- Smith, D. B. & Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Utica, NY
- Date:
- circa 1950
- Description:
- "Indian" brand backpack fire pump used by Newport, NH, fire department in 1950s. Manufactured by D. B. Smith & Company, Utica, NY. Brass tank with wide white and green band painted on front. Worn red painted band around top edge. Brass screw cap on top, 4.5" diam., painted black, with raised lettering: "D. B. SMITH & COMPANY / INDIAN / PATENTED / UTICA, N.Y. U.S.A." Removable brass strainer under cap, stamped "STRAINER / NO. F-35". Perforated brass back with raised lettering at top: "AIR / CONDITIONED / PATENTED / TANK". Raised lettering on bottom: "D. B. SMITH & COMPANY / INDIAN / UTICA. NEW YORK. U.S.A." Slide-type cylindrical brass hand pump with black wooden handle, connected to tank with red rubber hose. Pump rests on brass holder on top of tank. Two cotton canvas webbing straps attached to back, both worn and broken.
- Material:
- Metal
Brass
Rubber - Provenance:
- Used by donor's father, Leroy Billings (1909-1989), a Newport, NH, resident and member of the fire department, to fight the 1953 Corbin Park forest fire in Croydon.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lorayne Billings
- People:
- Billings, Leroy (1909-1989)
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