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1851-05-10
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Boston Common
GUSN-198353
The print depicts the celebration of a large group of firemen, with hoses spraying water. There are wagons in the foreground, as well as many figures playing and walking around. "The first of May, or May morning, has, for a long period, been a sort of gala occasion for the firemen of Boston, when the companies would turn out to try their skill, and the powers of their respective engines with each other, in throwing water over the flag-staff, on the Common, and in sprinkling the assembled multitude by way of a dessert to their performance."
firefighters
firehoses
firefighting equipment
galas (parties)
commons
fountains
flagpoles
flags
spectators (event observers)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR56
1 newspaper print
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1922-02-06
GC002.01.MA.1600.002
Gift
11 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of L. Jenkins, 1922
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)
prints (visual works)
poor
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Boston Common
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