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The Hartford Manufacturing Company

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Description: Image of a single-fold advertisement for a variety of goods produced by the Hartford Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut; images and text advertising a brass pocket oiler for skates and bicycles and a knife sharpener on recto; pocket cigarette cases and match boxes on verso.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1875-1900
Call number: priJLC_FASH_Hunt_003662
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn

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Image of an advertisement for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; large bridge spanning a waterway with ships and steamboats, including the "Granite State" and the "City of Hartford," in water and railroad train crossing the bridge.

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Continental Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn

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Image of an advertisement for Continental Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; American eagle standing on a Union shield atop a large globe flanked by a Native American Indian man and a colonial American militia soldier; heraldry shield with Latin motto and company officers listed below.

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The Deering mowers

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Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising mowers manufactured by William Deering & Company of Chicago, Illinois; text describing rationale for 2 1/4 inch mower knife sections is interspersed with diagrams of the machinery.

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National of Hartford

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Image of an advertisement for National of Hartford with Columbia standing next to an American bald eagle and holding an American flag and a shield with a stag; large decorative circular border with American flags; instructional text and diagrams for installing "decalcomanie 'good-ad' signs manufactured by Palm, Fechteler & Co." in windows on verso.

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City of Hartford, Conn

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and surrounding hills, with the Connecticut River cutting through and behind the city.

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Aetna Insurance Co of Hartford Conn. 1887

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Image of a calendar for 1887 advertising Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; fire engine pulled by two horses racing down a city street at center with firefighters extinguishing a fire in a building at left; image of Mount Aetna volcano erupting and sailboats along the coast of Sicily, Italy, inset at right.

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The Hartford Manufacturing Company

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