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Exterior view of coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee Boston, Mass. June 15.-16.-17.-18.-19th. 1869
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View of the great coliseum for the World's Peace Jubilee and International Music Festival to be held in Boston from June 17. to July 4. 1872
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Image of a large exhibition building for the World's Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts; a very dense crowd of people stream towards the building, arriving both on foot and in horse-drawn vehicles; flags from many nations fly above the building; angels with herald trumpets at top right and left provide a decorative frame.
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The grand foreign exhibition opens in Boston, Sept. 3rd, 1883
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The Jay T. Last collection of firefighting prints and ephemera contains more than 150 printed items that relate to firefighting and the activities and organizations of firemen in the United States from approximately 1820 to 1909. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations produced for or pertaining to firefighting organizations, related social or charitable events, and firefighting vehicles, equipment, and supplies. Large-size items consist of lithographic and engraved prints including fire department membership and discharge certificates; depictions of fires and firefighters working to extinguish blazes; builders prints of fire engines and similar vehicles, and images and advertisements pertaining to social and charitable events involving fire departments and related organizations. The small-size items consist mainly of business documents and advertising and promotional ephemera such as printed booklets, trade cards, small programs, menus, tickets and invitations for charitable and social events such balls, concerts, musters, and celebrations, business cards, lapel ribbons, book and periodical illustrations, membership certificates, and stationery with printed billheads and letterheads filled out in manuscript.
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