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Samuel Bowles and Company Grand Civic, Military, and Firemen's Celebration

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08442.02 Author/Creator: Samuel Bowles and Company Place Written: Springfield, Massachusetts Type: Broadside Date: July 1861 Pagination: 1 broadside : docket ; 62 x 22.5 cm. Order a Copy

Civil War broadside advertising the Fourth of July celebration "in Honor of the 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers." Outlines the schedule for the festivities. Printed by Samuel Bowles & Company. Docketed "From George W.W. Gray of Springfield."

Samuel Bowles and Company, fl. 1861

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