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Image: JLewisWyckoff Keys to the City Plaque Smith's Ferry, Holyoke

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Description: Presentation plaque for Joseph Lewis Wyckoff, originally attached to "keys to the city", presented to him as an honor for leading efforts for Holyoke to annex Smith's Ferry from Northampton, Massachusetts. It reads- Presented to J. Lewis Wycoff [sic] By Holyoke Friends In Joyful Welcome to the New Citizen Through Whose Militant Energy the Boundaries of Their City Were So Extended by the Legislature of 1909 as to Include Within Them Not Only Himself But the Whole of the Ancient Hamlet known as Smith's Ferry. Holyoke, Mass. July 21, 1909
Title: JLewisWyckoff Keys to the City Plaque Smith's Ferry, Holyoke
Credit: Private collection; subsequently donated to Holyoke Public Library Collections
Author: Self; original engraver unknown, originally purchased by City of Holyoke
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Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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