Visual Materials

The building of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company

Description: Image of an advertisement for the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York City, depicting their building on Broadway in a busy commercial street view; pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, and street cars in foreground.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1895-1912
Call number: priJLC_FIN_002585
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.

First National Fire Insurance Company

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for First National Fire Insurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts; eye-level view of the First National Fire Insurance Co. building on a commercial street with Ware, Pratt & Co. dry goods store on the first floor; pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in front along street.

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Albany City Fire Insurance Co

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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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Proposed Arcade Railway. : Under Broadway, view near Wall Street

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of Broadway near Wall Street in New York City, lined with commercial buildings, showing a busy street scene with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages, elevated above a section of an underground railway with train cars and waiting passengers.

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The New York elevated railroad : connecting with all the principal steam rail ways and steam ferries

Visual Materials

Image of a poster advertising the New York Elevated Railroad with a central image of an elevated view of a busy street scene in New York City showing a street corner lined with commercial buildings, pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, and elevated sidewalks, tracks, and railroad cars.

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New terminal depot at Philadelphia Reading Railroad System. : R.J. Allen, Son & Company

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the eight-story Reading Terminal station of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and adjacent buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a busy street scene in the foreground with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, and street cars including one labeled "Philadelphia Traction Co"; flag on roof of building reads "Philadelphia and Reading R.R." in reverse; the next door building is labeled "1888."

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McLaughlin & Ryland’s bank : corner of Santa Clara and First Streets San Jose Cal

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the three-story architecturally ornate McLaughlin & Ryland's Bank building in San Jose, California, with storefronts for the bank, James Hart dry goods store, Frisbie's drug store, and Geo. H. Hare Books & Stationary store, and a busy street scene in the foreground with pedestrians, and horse-drawn vehicles, people on horseback, and a First Street Railroad Company streetcar.

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The building of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company

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