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Continental Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1867-1872
Call number: priJLC_FIN_002595
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.

The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn

Visual Materials

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The Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company New York

Visual Materials

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Aetna Insurance Co of Hartford Conn. 1887

Visual Materials

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Esto perpetua : Continental Fire Insurance Company

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Image of Native American Indians hunting bison with bows and arrows on horseback in an advertisement for Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York; two men stand next to a tipi in foreground at center; buildings and bridges along river and railroad trains traveling "San Francisco to New York" in background at right.

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Continental Fire Insurance Co. of New York

Visual Materials

Image of a group of Native American Indians near tipis gesturing towards bison and horses nearby in an advertisement for Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York.

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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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Continental Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn

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