Sylvania Employees Watch Salem Soldiers March Off
60 Boston Street
Salem, Massachusetts

Hygrade Sylvania employees (Boston St. plant) watch soldiers march off to serve in WWI. "The debris in the foreground marks the spot where the great Salem Fire of 1914 started."
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60 Boston St., Salem, MA

1917

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Sylvania Employees Watch Salem Soldiers March Off 60 Boston Street Salem, Massachusetts Hygrade Sylvania employees (Boston St. plant) watch soldiers march off to serve in WWI. "The debris in the foreground marks the spot where the great Salem Fire of 1914 started."

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Neighborhood: Federal Street District
Census Tract 204702 · Essex County County

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[ca. 1865–1914]

Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

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[ca. 1865–1914]

Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

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[ca. 1865–1914]

Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

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[ca. 1865–1914]

Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

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June 1914

Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

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Nelson Dionne Salem History Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts

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February 17, 2026