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Title: Phenix Insurance Co. of Brooklyn, New York
Creator: Robertson, Wm. C. (Printer), printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an advertisement for Phenix Insurance Co. of Brooklyn, New York; Phenix steamboat at top center between a pair of capsized ships (one on fire) and some survivors and wreckage; team of horses near a boat with railroad train in background at bottom left; steamship sailing at bottom right; officers of the company at bottom center.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; William C. Robertson printed from approximately 1869-1874 "Wm. C. Robertson, Lith. 59 Cedar St. N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Assets - 1,500,000...."--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 48.42 x 62.87 cm (19 1/16 x 24 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FIN_002590
413463
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4988
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Insurance
Fires--Pictorial works
Railroad trains--Pictorial works
Ships--Pictorial works
Steamboats--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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