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North-Western Insurance Company, Oswego, N.Y

Description: Image of an advertisement for North-Western Insurance Company of Oswego, New York; images of a building on fire with firefighters at work and a ship capsizing in a storm above advertising text listing directors, officers, and agent's names; decorative border with roses.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1860
Call number: priJLC_FIN_002567
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.

North Western Insurance Company Oswego, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for North Western Insurance Company of Oswego, New York; Oswego River waterfront with ships and boats at center; shields with directors listed below.

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Albany City Fire Insurance Co

Visual Materials

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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Oswego, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated city view of Oswego, New York, on the Oswego River where it joins Lake Ontario; boats and ships sail up the river and are docked along the waterfront; bridges connect the city over the river.

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Oswego Starch Factory, Oswego, N.Y. Incorporated 1848. T. Kingsford & Son, manufacturers

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Image of an elevated street view of a starch factory in Oswego, New York, depicting the Oswego Canal to the left; two rows of factory buildings, including a foundry and machine shop and store house, with a busy street scene with railroad tracks, people, wagons, and a railroad train in the center of the image.

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Aetna Insurance Co

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level view of a smoking Mount Aetna with buildings and sailboats along the coast of Sicily, Italy, in the foreground at the center of an advertisement for Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; elaborate decorative frame and border highlighting cash capital and losses paid.

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The St. Nicholas Insurance Co

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for St. Nicholas Insurance Company of New York City; images of St. Nicholas or Santa Claus flying over rooftops in a sleigh drawn by reindeer and offering toys at children's' bedside at center above advertising text with directors names listed; decorative border.

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North-Western Insurance Company, Oswego, N.Y

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