1888
GUSN-274003
The image caption reads "American farmers firing the shots heard round the world." There is a portrait of John Hancock in the upper left corner of the illustration and an exterior view of the Hancock House in the lower right corner of the illustration.
advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
farmers
militias
battles
portraits
statesmen
governors
exterior views
houses
dwellings
calendars
1 calendar ; 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.13.01.002
14 1/2 x 11 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Miss Adelaide Fowler, 11 October 1930.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Publisher)
Barnes, George Foster (Delineator)
calendars
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Revolutionary War
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
Item
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