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Hell
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Image of a scene from Hell, with people writhing in agony and suffering various punishments; demons, snakes, lizards, and dragons attack people, dozens of souls are goaded down a slope by demons into a fiery pit; several demons with horns dance around the Devil in the background at center.
priJLC_REL_002907
This is to certify that Charles M. Tainter has served as a Fireman in the city of Buffalo
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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the City of Buffalo made out in manuscript for Charles M. Tainter (presumably Charles M. Taintor) dated February 23, 1857, and signed by Mayor Frederick P. Stevens and City Clerk William H. Albro, with a top center vignette of a fireman standing in the center of a town square in Buffalo, New York, next to a woman and child, a man dressed in a costume similar to that of a Roman soldier with a robe, spear, sandals, and hat, and a kneeling woman writing a document that begins "Certificate of Disch[arge]", with firefighting equipment in the foreground including a hose, ladder, hat, rope, and speaking trumpet, and buildings, a statue, fire hydrant, lighthouse, steamboat, ship masts, and the shores of Lake Erie in the background and a flying angel with wings and a trumpet at top center obscuring a banner that reads "Buffalo Fire Department."; the certificate has a blue embossed seal of the City of Buffalo and a vignette at bottom center of firefighting equipment including preventers, censers, and ax.
priJLC_FIRE_001487
These certify that ___ was legally admitted a member of the Pilots' Charitable Society
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Image of a blank certificate certifying admittance to the Pilots' Charitable Society; seated motherly female figure in robes embracing three children among clouds at top center; boats and ships sailing with land and a lighthouse visible in the background.
priJLC_MAR_003313
Cadets of temperance. This is to certify
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Image of a certificate of membership for a temperance association; three young men hold a banner that reads, "No member shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider." and gesture towards a portico with their mother kneeling at their feet; ruined house at right in background; certificate text at bottom center; draped American flag and scrollwork oval frame with eagle and banner that reads, "Truth Virtue & Temperance" at bottom center.
priJLC_POL_002850
This certifies that ... is a member of ... Company; No. ... Fire Department
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Image of a blank stock firefighter's membership certificate with surrounding vignettes of a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a female nurse tending to a wounded firefighter; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet; firemen in a city street at night before a burning building with steam fire engines and hoses; a firefighter pulling a fire engine; and firefighters aiming a house towards flames; certificate decorated with images of firefighting equipment including fire hats, speaking trumpets, axes, bells, lanterns, preventers, ladders, buckets, censers, fire hydrants, and fire hoses.
priJLC_FIRE_001490
Saint Patrick
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Image of a bust-length portrait of Saint Patrick dressed in bishop's robes, crozier, and other regalia; vignette in background shows Saint Patrick in his credited role of banishing snakes from Ireland.
priJLC_REL_002910