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In 1829, the Boston School Committee voted to use Pierpont’s National Reader in the city’s public grammar schools. Pierpont’s replaced Murray’s English Reader which had been previously used. This 1836 edition would have been used for reading and…

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

Photograph of Horace Mann class of 1902 (back row: John F. Bruce, Boyd B. Darling, Hyman Lowenberg, Edwin W. Ottie, Clifford L. Vickey; middle row: Emma E. Brady, Lena A. Driver, Sabina M. Dunn, Anna D. Helmboldt, Mary Holmes; front row: Stella E.…

1837 ordinance establishing the Boston Fire Department

List of Boston firefighters arranged by engine

Letter to the mayor and Committee on the Fire Department describing and promoting a torpedo invented for the purpose of destroying buildings in order to halt the spread of fire

Letter to the Mayor and Aldermen requesting assistance after the writer's house was looted.

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

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

Reward Poster for Katie Mary Curran