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Central Fire Station Owney tag
Object Details
- Description
- Owney received a handful of tags from firemen and fire stations around the country, including this tag representing Lowell, Massachusetts’s Central Fire Station. There is no information on when Owney received the tag. A number of railway lines passed through Lowell, including the Boston & Main and the Old Colony Railroad. The back of the tag notes that C.O.A. Grover, a Lowell steel letter cutter, created the tag.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1888-1897
- Object number
- 0.052985.137
- Honoree
- Owney, American, c. 1888 - 1897
- Type
- Seals, Symbols & Signage
- Medium
- metal
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (3.81 x 3.18 cm)
- Place
- Massachusetts
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- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Record ID
- npm_0.052985.137
- Usage
- CC0
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