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Hunneman & Co. builders, Boston, Mass

Description: 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.”
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1855
Call number: priJLC_FIRE_001505
Creator: Last, Jay T

Columbia bicycle : the Pope Mfg. Co. Boston Mass

Visual Materials

Image of a man riding a high-wheel bicycle on a park path next to a pond, with other bicyclists and a horse-drawn carriage in the background; image is centered in an advertisement for the Columbia Bicycle, with printed text in the borders listing seven cycling records and images of bicycle accessories decorating the lower part of the sheet.

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The Wayside Inn

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Image of a circular print mounted on a page of a couple riding on horseback along a dirt road with a split-rail fence in front of an inn; trees with fall foliage branch over the road; mountains in background.

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M.W. Baldwin & Co, locomotive builders, Philadelphia

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, a tender with the partial label "on City," a sweeping brush attached to the front of the locomotive in place of the pilot; titled cylinder and rods, an outdoor landscape painted on a panel on the cab, the label "Iron City" on the boiler, and an image of a flying woman on the sandbox; ornate top border.

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Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels : 40 performers 40

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Image of side-by-side eye-level street views of Haverly's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, at left, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the street and a sign on the adjacent building for the "Office of the National Printing Company 119 Monroe Street"; and Haverly's Theatre in New York City, at right, showing horse-drawn carriages, crowds of people waiting to enter the building, and the "14th Street Station Elevated Rail Road"; with a top center vignette of the exterior of Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre centered amidst a top vignette of a moving passenger railroad train with a cityscape in the background captioned "Haverly's Special Palace Train en route with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels from."

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Danforth, Cooke & Co. Builders. Paterson N.J

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer in the cab, the label "Cov. [sic] Williamson" on the boiler, the label "Danforth Cooke & Co. / Paterson N.J." on the cylinder, the label "Danforth Cooke & Co. Paterson NJ" on the driving wheel hubcaps, and a portrait of a man on the head light, presumably intended to represent New Jersey Governor Isaac Halstead Williamson (1767-1844).

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Milford, Mass. : No. 18 : Album of New England scenery

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Milford, Massachusetts, as seen from the top of a long dirt road with horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and cattle, leading into the town.

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Hunneman & Co. builders, Boston, Mass

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