Browse Items (28 total)
Samuel Atkins Eliot
Portrait of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Mayor of Boston, 1837-1839
Tags: 1837, Boston, Mayors, Samuel Eliot
1838 sketch of Boston's City Hall
1838 sketch of Boston City Hall Bowen's Picture of Boston
Tags: 1838, Boston, Boston Fire Department, City Hall, Old State House
Resolutions of the Congress Engine Company concerning vandalism of their engine
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.
Letter respecting a torpedo invented for the purpose of fighting fires
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 caseā¦
Tags: Boston, Boston Fire Department, Samuel Eliot, Torpedo
Photographs of Chief Fire Engineers
Photographs of chief fire engineers published in A. W. Brayley's History of the Boston Fire Department
Tags: 1837, Boston, Boston Fire Department, Fire Engineers
1838 Map of Boston
1838 map of Boston published in Bowen's Picture of Boston
Rules and Regulations of the Fire Department in Case of Fire Outside the City
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 Fire Department engineer
Letter from Water Commissioners to engineer William Barnacott asking for details about the fire companies' water usage.
Anonymous threat sent to city government
Boston, March or June 29,
There will be a fire in Boston to night
Tags: 1837, Boston, Boston Fire Department
Letter from Mayor Samuel A. Eliot to Fire Department Engineers
Letter from Mayor Samuel A. Eliot to Fire Department engineers responding to uncertainty about the engineers participation in the Fire Department