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Title
Aetna Insurance Co
Creator
Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of an eye-level view of a smoking Mount Aetna with buildings and sailboats along the coast of Sicily, Italy, in the foreground at the center of an advertisement for Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; elaborate decorative frame and border highlighting cash capital and losses paid.
Date supplied by cataloger based on company history and item text; Aetna incorporated in 1819 and advertised the losses they paid over 65 years. "The Strobridge Lith. Co, Cincinnati, O."--text, bottom right of image. "Incorporated 1819"--text, top center of image. "Losses paid in Sixty Five years $55,000,000."--text, bottom left of image. "Losses paid at Chicago $3,8000,000. At Boston $1,600,000."--text, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 61.75 x 80.17 cm (24 5/16 x 31 9/16 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_FIN_002599
413471
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4963
Language
English
Subject
Advertising--Insurance
Etna, Mount (Italy)--Pictorial works
Volcanoes--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Finance
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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