Download or read book Early Fire Protection Fire Insurance Companies and the Use of Fire Marks written by George Cuthbert Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Fire Marks written by Insurance Company of North America and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire marks of American Fire Insurance Companies written by Harrold Edgar Gillingham and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footprints of Assurance written by Alwin E. Bulau and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Quarter century s Fire Underwriting 1871 1896 written by National Fire Insurance Co. (Hartford, Conn.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company written by Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Boston and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Fire Marks The Insurance Company of North America Collection etc written by Insurance Company of North America and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Marks written by American Reserve Insurance Company and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Years written by Jerome B. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Insurance Lectures Delivered Before the Insurance Institute of Hartford Inc written by Insurance Institute of Hartford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Marks written by John Vince and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of insurance against loss or damage by fire originated in the late seventeenth century, prompted, no doubt by the enormous suffering caused by the Great Fire of London. In the days before the establishment of municipal fire services it was natural for the insurance companies to run their own fire brigades to keep losses to a minimum, and it became the custom during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for the companies to mark insured property with a distinctive 'fire-mark' or 'plate', some of which even displayed the policy number. Because of the large number of insurance companies and because they were constantly varying the motif on their fire-marks there is now a great variety of these attractive and interesting items still to be seen on the walls of old buildings - perhaps the sun of the Sun Fire Office is the most familiar - and this book illustrates almost two hunded of them.
Download or read book Principles of Insurance Fire written by William Franklin Gephart and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Collection of the Insurance Company of North America written by Insurance Company of North America and published by Philadelphia : Insurance Company of North America. This book was released on 1945 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1860 fifty Years 1910 written by Edward Vinton French and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Hundred Years of the Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company written by Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Able Men of Boston written by Dane Yorke and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
