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The Firemen's Insurance Co. N. York. By this policy of insurance

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Description: Image of a single-fold insurance policy certificate issued by the Firemen's Insurance Company of New York City; fire engine with ladder, hat, and other firefighting equipment at top center with policy text below.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1845
Call number: priJLC_FIN_002570
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company

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Image of a single-fold insurance policy certificate issued by the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company; two bust-length portraits of Benjamin Franklin (at left) and William Penn (at right), a crest with horses and an eagle, and two views of a building on fire at top center with policy text below.

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Button fire engine works : Holroyd & Co. Proprietors Waterford, Saratoga Co., N.Y

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Image of a central image of a steam fire engine with two firefighters being drawn by two horses through a city street with a burning building in the background and a fire hydrant in the foreground; with seven vignettes consisting of five firefighting vehicles, a bundle of firefighting accessories including a ladder, hook, pick, lantern, speaking trumpet, and fireman's hat labeled "8", and an elevated view of the exterior of the Button Fire Engine Co. factory buildings in Waterford, New York, with someone aiming a stream of water from a hose over the roof of a building.

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The Western Marine and Fire Insurance Company

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Image of a fire insurance certificate from the Western Marine and Fire Insurance Company of New Orleans, Louisiana; image of the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans with fire fighters and a fire truck working to put out a fire on the roof; printed and handwritten manuscript text of insurance policy below and on verso.

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By the president and directors of the Insurance Company of North America

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Image of a house insurance certificate from the Insurance Company of North America; image of a group of firemen and a fire truck extinguishing a fire on the roof of a dwelling; printed and handwritten manuscript text of insurance policy below.

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This is to certify that John G. Lubben. having served the time prescribed by the laws of the State of California in the Alameda Fire Department

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Image of a firefighter's certificate of service from the Alameda Fire Department of Alameda, California, made out in manuscript to John G. Lubben and dated July 29, 1893; with four surrounding vignettes depicting firefighters fighting fires and driving towards burning buildings with horse-drawn firefighting vehicles including a hook and ladder truck, hose carriage, and manual fire engine, as well as a top-center vignette of Columbia, the goddess of Liberty, sitting in a field looking at a paper with a shield labeled "California," a bear, sheaths of wheat, and a fireman surrounding her; the vignettes and certificate are bordered by two hoses attached to a fire hydrant and firefighting equipment including ladders, preventers, axes, speaking trumpets, and fire hats; the certificate has an embossed seal of the Alameda Fire Department.

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Certificate of life membership to the Philadelphia Association for the relief of disabled firemen. This is to certify that R.C. Du Comb

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Image of a membership certificate from the Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen made out in manuscript to R.C. DuComb and dated January 1869 with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines putting out a fire in a dry goods store labeled “EFores [?] Dry Goods” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while a crowd of spectators watch from the street and surrounding buildings; the image is bordered by a uniformed fireman on either side with hoses and equipment, with one wearing a hat labeled "Hose" and standing on a hydrant and the other wearing a hat labeled "Fire" and standing on a fire engine; the certificate has an embossed seal of the Association.

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The Firemen's Insurance Co. N. York. By this policy of insurance

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