Broadside
- Title:
- Forest Fire Notice
- Object Name:
- Broadside
- Object ID:
- 2018.001.01
- Creator:
- Mirror Press
Printer - Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1915
- Description:
- Broadside printed on fabric. Black ink on white cotton: "FOREST FIRE / NOTICE". List of laws regarding fires. Names of Forestry Commissioners and State Forester below. Stamped at bottom, "W. S. Philips, Forest Fire Warden, Bethlehem, N. H." Printed by Mirror Press, Manchester, NH. Unused
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-26.5 W-11.3 inches
- Provenance:
- From the estate of John Jacob Glessner (1843-1936) and his wife Frances Macbeth Glessner (1848-1932). Their summer estate in Bethlehem, NH, known as The Rocks, is now owned by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The donor is the widow of Charles Foster Batchelder III (1930-2016), who was a great grandson of the Glessners. Charles III's mother donated the Glessners' Abbot-Downing express wagon to NHHS in 1978.
W. S. Phillips is listed as a forest fire warden in Bethlehem in the Biennial Report of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission, 1915-1916. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Virginia Batchelder
- People:
- Glessner, John J. (1843-1936)
- Subjects:
- Forest fires
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