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  • Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

    Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

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    Image of vignettes of elevation views of the sides steam fire engines, fire hose trucks, and related firefighting vehicles with a central image of a steam fire engine with red wagon wheels labeled "Brooklyn 10" and "B F D 10" with city buildings in the background, and surrounding vignettes of nine vehicles including one steam engine labeled "Arba Read," one with two men standing next to it, another with a man in a top hat and firefighter's cape that reads "Amoskeag"; the borders of the vignettes are decorated with firefighting equipment including ladders, hoses, speaking trumpets, hats, torches, lanterns, and a firefighter blowing into a trumpet.

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  • Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester, N.H

    Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester, N.H

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    Image of a side view of a steam fire engine, with a driver and two horses, and seven firefighters, some wearing hats labeled "S F E" and holding fire hoses, standing around the vehicle outdoors; the engine's cylinder is labeled "Amoskeag" and has hoses attached including one labeled "Boyd's Patent Hose."

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  • Outside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

    Outside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

    Visual Materials

    Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. factory complex along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, with an elevation view of the side of a passenger steam locomotive on railroad tracks in the foreground, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer visible in the cab, a tender holding wood with a man standing in the tank, and a label between the driving wheels that reads "Amoskeag Mang. Co. Manchester N.H. / C.W. Baldwin Agent / 1856."

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  • Inside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

    Inside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

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    Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and sign on the smokebox that reads "Manchester N.H. / No.150. 1854."

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