subject: Fires and Fire Prevention
"Great fire"on School Street in 1838 (Worcester, Mass.)
description- – Image depicts fire fighters with"engine"of the period fighting the fire. Rolls of hoses on wheeled carriages, wet"blankets"being placed on adjacent structures, residents throwing valuables fromwindows and general melee surrounding the fire.
- – Fires-Massachusetts-Worcester-19th century.
- – Worcester (Mass.)-History-1783-1865-Pictorial works
- – Worcester (Mass.)-Fires and fire prevention-Pictorial works
- – Worcester (Mass.)-Streets-School St.
- – Great Fire, Worcester, Mass, 1838
- – 1838
- – Image taken from unidentified book. In the collections of the Worcester Public Library, Worcester, Mass. http://www.worcpublib.org/
- – image/jpg
- – English
