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Title: Hanover Fire Insurance Company
Creator: Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873
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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 the Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York City; allegorical women representing Freedom and Justice sit on either side of a large Hanover coat of arms crest with American eagle and Union shield perched above; glow and smoke from a fire in background.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. was located on Park Place from approximately 1873-1888. "The Major & Knapp Eng. Mf'g. & Lith. Co. 56 & 58 Park Place, N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "New York. Cash Assets: Over One Million Dollars. I. Remsen Lane, Secretary, Benj. S. Walcott, President."--text, bottom center of image. "Loring & Thurston, Ag'ts, Portland, Me."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 60.33 x 47.63 cm (23 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FIN_002583
413456
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4975
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Insurance
Eagles--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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