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Title: Norwich Fire Insurance Co
Creator: Shearman & Hart, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1861
1862
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: 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.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Shearman & Hart were partners from approximately 1861-1862. "Shearman & Hart Lith. 99 Fulton St. N.Y."--text, bottom center of image. "Cash Capital, $200,000. Chartered, May, 1803."--text, bottom of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed hand colored ; overall 47.63 x 58.9 cm (18 3/4 x 23 3/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FIN_002588
413461
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4986
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Insurance
Fire engines--Pictorial works
Fire fighters--Pictorial works
Fires--Pictorial works
Streets--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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