"Early Fire Protection, Fire Insurance Companies and the Use of Fire Marks"
Author : George Cuthbert Gillespie
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Fire extinction
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Author : George Cuthbert Gillespie
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Fire extinction
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Author : Insurance Company of North America
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Fire insurance marks
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Author : Harrold Edgar Gillingham
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Fire insurance
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Author : Alwin E. Bulau
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1789128072
FOOTPRINTS OF ASSURANCE is a comprehensive and complete record of fire marks used by fire insurance companies in sixty-three countries. These insignia themselves tell the story of the development of one of the world’s most important economic institutions. Mr. Bulan enriches the story by introducing the reader to some of the men who have been responsible for the growth of the institution. He has enlivened his account with incident and anecdote so that the lay reader may share with the profession an understanding of the spirit which has from the beginning been the distinguishing feature of the enterprise of providing security against loss by fire. Collectors of fire marks will find this volume to be an indispensable guide. Economic historians will not find anywhere so full a record of these signs of security, these visible symbols of assurance, assurance which provided the climate requisite to economic growth. The volume shows nearly 1800 fire marks in half tone vignettes each with a caption giving a full description of the mark and date of organization of each company. This systematic treatment has indeed established the collecting of marks as a science and has added to the English language the word Signeviery as the name of that science.
Author : National Fire Insurance Co. (Hartford, Conn.)
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Fire insurance
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Author : Mark Tebeau
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421412500
During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
Author : Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Boston
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Fire insurance
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Author : Insurance Company of North America
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 1936
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Insurance
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Author : American Reserve Insurance Company
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Fire insurance marks
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