Trade cards for the Hartford Accident Insurance Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1875

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

1875

GUSN

GUSN-307093

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Insurance
General
Insurance - General - Folder 1
Trade cards for the Hartford Accident Insurance Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1875
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Insurance
    - General
      - Insurance - General - Folder 1
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        Trade card for Ebenezer W. Stone, insurance agent, office 242 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
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        Trade card for the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 555 Main Street, Cambridgeport, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 555 Main Street, Cambridgeport, Mass., January 1, 1888
        Advertisement for The Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd. of The Employers' Group, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for the Boston Marine Insurance Co., Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, life and accident insurance, Hartford, Connecticut, 1868
        Trade card for the Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Quincy, Mass., 1885
        Promissory note for the Mechanics' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., dated June 13, 1861
        Trade card for the United States Benefit Association of Boston, Mass., Snow Building, 160 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated
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        Trade card for The New York Fire Insurance Company, 72 Wall Street, New York, New York, undated
        Trade card The Granite State Fire Insurance Company of Portsmouth, N.H., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, undated
        Trade card for the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Cambridge, Mass., 1886
        Advertisement for the Continental Insurance Co., corner Cout & Montague Streets, Brooklyn, New York, June 1882
        New England Mutual Life, insurance, Boston, Mass., 1885
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        Trade card for The Granite State Fire Insurance Company of Portsmouth, N.H., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, undated
        Letterhead for J.W. Munger & Co., fire, life and marine insurance agents, 166 Fore Street, Portland, Maine, dated January 16, 1880
        Trade cards for the Hartford Accident Insurance Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1875 (current record)
        Trade card for unidentified fire insurance company, location unknown, undated
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        Trade card, Charles W. Mitchell, insurance, all kinds, 60 Congress Street, Boston, Mass.
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        To our visitors, envelope of literature, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 501 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.
        Nine mural paintings by Charles Hoffbauer in the home office of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
        Advertisement, things a man can trust, New York Life Insurance Company, 51 Madison Avenue, New York, New York
        Trade card, Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 555 Main Street, Cambridgeport, Mass.
        Growing Old Gracefully pamphlet, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1955

Description

A sailboat has a collision with a steamship in the illustration which also has a calendar for July 1875. Text on the verso has a short story about the accident and the young couple on board. Fish & Armstrong are the agents in Buffalo, New York.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
accidents
sailboats
steamships
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

2 trade cards : color illustrations ; 3 x 4 1/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.065.01.01.021

Image Dimensions

3 x 4 1/4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Buffalo History Museum, 2013.

Places

Hartford (Hartford county, Connecticut)
Buffalo (Erie county, New York state)

Record Details

Originator

Hartford Accident Insurance Company (Publisher)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Description Level

Item

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