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Germania fire insurance company – Vintage Wall Art

Germania fire insurance company, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Germania fire insurance company, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the Fire Engines collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Germania fire insurance company, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This print stands out as advertising: it was issued under the name of the Germania Fire Insurance Company rather than as a plain view of a fire engine. Nineteenth-century insurers often distributed lithographed prints like this to clients and agents, using dramatic firefighting scenes to suggest dependability at a time when a single blaze could ruin a property owner. The shelflist card credits the lithography to Wm. Momberger, but that attribution is unverified, and no date is recorded, so the print is best understood within the wider mid-to-late nineteenth-century vogue for insurance advertising.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Momberger, Wm., Lith.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,227 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112967

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