Visual Materials

The Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company New York

Description: Image of an advertisement for the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York City; goddess Athena with a shield holds her arm over a seated woman and her children in a gesture of protection atop a large globe with clouds in background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1873-1888
Call number: priJLC_FIN_002597
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.

Continental Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn

Visual Materials

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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Equitable Life Assurance Society

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York City; image of a marble statue of goddess Athena with a spear and upraised shield protecting a mother and her child.

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Equitable Life Assurance Society

Visual Materials

Image of a proof of an advertisement for Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York City; image of a marble statue of goddess Athena with a spear and upraised shield protecting a mother and her child.

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Springfield, Mass. Fire & Marine Insurance Co

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Springfield, Massachusetts, Fire & Marine Insurance Company; Columbia seated at center holding a draped American flag and a Union shield aloft an a sword and laurel crown in her other hand; globe, books, and American eagle flank her; burning city and ships at sea in background.

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Organized A.D. 1794. Insurance Company of North America Philadelphia

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Insurance Company of North America of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; two men (a factory worker and a sailor) pictured next to an American eagle perched atop a large globe with an elevated view of an industrial waterfront in background, including factories, railroad train, lighthouse, ships, bridges, and buildings on fire; horse and eagle and man and woman clasping outreached hands inset at top left and right.

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A cuspide corona

Visual Materials

Image of a certificate presented by the State of California for service in the Spanish-American War; several vignettes showing various fighting soldiers, ships, marches, and battles frame the central image of the goddess Columbia in front of a large American flag with a spear and laurel wreath in her hands next to a columned monument with certificate text; state seal of California with motto "Eureka" and goddess Minerva (Athena) and a California grizzly bear at top of monument.

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