Image of an elevation view of the side of a red manual fire engine with hand buckets decorated with images of scantily clad women, an angel, and an American eagle that sits in the street before the Merchants Exchange building in Boston, Massachusetts; the building is labeled with the signs "Neal & Co."; "Ogdensburgh Rail Road Office"; "Market Bank"; "Merchant Exchange Hotel. Post Office."; "Vermont Central Rail Road Office."; "New England Mutual Marine Ins. Office"; "Bayley & [?]"; "O.D. Ashl[?]"; "F.A. Heath[?]" and “Equiptable [?] Insurance Office.” Date based on date provided for copy held by the Boston Athenaeum. "L.H. Bradford & Co's Lithography, Boston, Mass."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 58.1 x 84.14 cm (22 7/8 x 33 1/8 in.)
Boston (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Commercial streets--Pictorial works Fire engines--Design and construction--Pictorial works Fire engines--Pictorial works Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies--Pictorial works Hunneman and Company Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
Boston (Mass.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Firefighting Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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