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1872
Boston Fire of 1872\n - Box 1 of 2 - J.W.\n Black
GUSN-225011
The number 10 steam fire engine is surrounded by workers and onlookers in the midst of rubble on Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
fires (events)
disasters
rubble
ruins
commercial buildings
fire engines
steam engines (engines)
albumen prints
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Boston - 1872 Fire not a J. W. Black photograph found at Parson, Smith House; Windham, ME, Recv'd Oct 1980
OVP collection number OVP 106
James Wallace Black collection number 8
James Wallace Black photo number 52
1 photographic print : albumen, black-and-white, mounted ; 15 1/2 x 11 inches
PC013
James Wallace Black photographic collection of the Boston Fire, 1872
1980
PC013.TMP.008
Gift
15 1/2 x 11 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
South Windham (Cumberland county, Maine)
albumen prints
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896
Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
Federal Street (Boston, Mass.)
Pearl Street (Boston, Mass.)
Item
Boston Fire of 1872
- Box 1 of 2 - J.W.
Black
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