One Hundred Years: Being a Short History of Fires, and the Methods of Hunting Fires During the Past One Hundred Years; Together With Some Interesting Facts About Fires of Ancient Times; Reproductions of Etchings of Historical Buildings in Philadelphia and Many Little Drawings of Old Fire Apparatus and the House Marks of Fire Companies; Aso a Brief Story of the Founding and Growth of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company in Philadephia
by Jerome B. Gray
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Philadelphia, PA: The Franklin Fire Insurance Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Tan cloth spine & green boards with gilt lettering. Map end papers. 8vo, 82pp. VG+.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- One Hundred Years: Being a Short History of Fires, and the Methods of Hunting Fires During the Past One Hundred Years; Together With Some Interesting Facts About Fires of Ancient Times; Reproductions of Etchings of Historical Buildings in Philadelphia and Many Little Drawings of Old Fire Apparatus and the House Marks of Fire Companies; Aso a Brief Story of the Founding and Growth of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company in Philadephia
- Author
- Jerome B. Gray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- The Franklin Fire Insurance Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- nonfiction; fire insurance; Philadelphia
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