Trade card for Sawyer's Improved Fire Escapes, Wesley Sawyer, Lowell, Mass., undated

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Collection Type

Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-246578

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Fire engines and equipment
General
Fire engines and equipment - General - Folder 1
Trade card for Sawyer's Improved Fire Escapes, Wesley Sawyer, Lowell, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Fire engines and equipment
    - General
      - Fire engines and equipment - General - Folder 1
        Trade card for Sawyer's Improved Fire Escapes, Wesley Sawyer, Lowell, Mass., undated (current record)
        Combination ticket for the Fiskeville Fire Company's Grand Fair, Fiskeville Town Hall, Fiskeville, Rhode Island, April 19, 21, and 23, 1892
        Newton fire alarm telegraph code for 1882, Newton, Mass., May, 1882

Description

According to the card the fire escape is "free from complication in all its parts" and was patented on May 27, 1862.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
fire escapes
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 trade card ; 3 x 4 1/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.042.01.01.001

Image Dimensions

3 x 4 1/4 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Description Level

Item

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