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Albany City Fire Insurance Co

Description: Image of an advertisement for Albany City Fire Insurance Company of Albany, New York; dozens of firefighters and several fire engines hurry around a corner in the commercial district of Albany towards a large fire blazing along the horizon at left; businesses include "Sprague Bookseller & Stationer," "L. Pruyn & Son Hardware," "Weed & Kingsley Law Office," "Hastings News Depot," "Morse Telegraph Office," "Frothingham's Druggists | Hatter," and "Albany City Fire Insurance Co." at the corner of State Street and Broadway; pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles dodge the firefighters or look on in the busy streets; elaborate frame decorative border with list of directors and officers.
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Date: approximately 1862
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Norwich Fire Insurance Co

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Image of an advertisement for Norwich Fire Insurance Company of Norwich, Connecticut; firefighters and fire engines rush through city streets towards a fire in the distance; elaborate oval frame with directors and officers of the company listed.

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Columbia Fire Insurance Co

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Image of Columbia with a large American flag at the center of an advertisement for Columbia Fire Insurance Co. of New York City; images of storefronts on a commercial street on a normal day at left and with a fire engine and firefighters fighting flames at right.

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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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These are to certify that Arch. Montieth has been nominated and elected an active member of Albany Engine Co. No. 1

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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Albany Engine Co. No. 1 of Albany, Oregon, made out in manuscript to Archibald Monteith on June 3, 1875, and surrounded by vignettes of firefighters including a firefighter fighting a fire with a fire hose; a firefighter on a ladder rescuing a young girl; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet standing in a street pointing towards a fire; and an eye-level view of a city street with a burning building and ruins with a steam fire engine, hose carriage, firemen, and utility poles in the foreground; the certificate is bordered by images of fire hydrants, ladders, hoses, and preventers.

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Hanover Fire Insurance Co

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Image of an advertisement for Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York City; allegorical women representing Freedom and Justice sit on either side of a large Hanover coat of arms crest with American eagle and Union shield perched above; glow and smoke from a fire in background.

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Thames Fire Insurance Co

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Image of an advertisement for Thames Fire Insurance Company of Norwich, Connecticut; elevated view of the city of Norwich and its harbor at center with three smaller views of Yantic Falls, Norwich from the Thames River, and the Cove below; elaborate scrolling decorative border with foliage framing the names of the company directors and officers.

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