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New York Underwriters Agency. Cash assets $3,302,926 – Antique Wall Art

New York Underwriters Agency. Cash assets $3,302,926, N.Y. : N.Y. Economical Printing Co., c1876. — antique lithograph
New York Underwriters Agency. Cash assets $3,302,926, N.Y. : N.Y. Economical Printing Co., c1876.. Antique lithograph 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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New York Underwriters Agency. Cash assets $3,302,926 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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New York Underwriters Agency. Cash assets $3,302,926

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The most distinctive detail here is the advertised figure: the New York Underwriters Agency puts its cash assets at $3,302,926, a number meant to reassure buyers that the company could pay out after a loss. In the 1870s, fire insurance was sold heavily through printed advertising like this, and firms often displayed their financial strength as proof of reliability in a period when city fires were a constant danger. The print was issued by the N.Y. Economical Printing Co., and its copyright is credited to A. Stoddart, a reminder of how commercial lithography served the city's businesses.

Created / publishedN.Y. : N.Y. Economical Printing Co., c1876.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreAdvertisements 1870-1880.Lithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCopyright by A. Stoddart.
SubjectsFires--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880. Insurance companies--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,049 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166864

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