Exhibition of the New York German Fire Corps, or Pompier Corps, at French's Hotel - New method of preserving life from fire - The ladder escape - Jumping from the fifth story window - Descending by life basket - Sail cloth tube - By belts, etc. July 10th, 1860. 19th century illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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