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Portrait of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Mayor of Boston, 1837-1839

1838 sketch of Boston City Hall Bowen's Picture of Boston

Letter to the Mayor and Aldermen resolving to discover who vandalized the Congress Fire Engine and offering a fifty dollar reward for the detection of the vandal.

Partial transcription from first page of docket:

In Board of Aldermen Sept 4, 1837

The Committee on the Fire Dept to whom was referred the communications of Clinton Roosevelt regarding a torpedo invented by him for destroying buildings in case…

Photographs of chief fire engineers published in A. W. Brayley's History of the Boston Fire Department

1838 map of Boston published in Bowen's Picture of Boston

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Rules and regulations governing the actions of the Boston Fire Department in responding to fires outside the Boston city limits

Letter from Water Commissioners to engineer William Barnacott asking for details about the fire companies' water usage.

Boston, March or June 29,

There will be a fire in Boston to night

Letter from Mayor Samuel A. Eliot to Fire Department engineers responding to uncertainty about the engineers participation in the Fire Department