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Fire Hydrant Shower on a Hot Day

Georgeen Comerford Photograph Collection

Image of children, including one on a wheelchair, gathered near an opened fire  hydrant.

Georgeen Comerford

1984

Children cool off on a hot day in Melrose with a fire hydrant shower. Other children, coming out of the adjacent playground, take in the scene. They notice that the child in a wheel chair is catching the water spray, too, judging from the wet sidewalk. Buildings are in the rear.

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