Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Description
The National Insurance Co.'s advertising blotter claimed $200,000 in cash capital and $312,641.61 in assets as of July 1, 1871.
This blotter was among the written and illustrated volumes of John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper.
Martin wrote that his son John Martin Jr., then age 14, began working at the National Insurance Co. office on July 21, 1871. He worked there for his eight-week school vacation.
Martin himself worked at the National Insurance Co., probably in the 1870s or 1880s, as "maine regester."
On the back of the card is a list of eight names: Sara C. Shaw, Sara Harrell Shaw, Frances Hilliard Ingersoll, Laura Emma Lander, Isabel Redington Thurston, Maria Louise Wing, Lucy Elizabeth Gallupe, and Mary Jane Stubbs.
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About This Item
- Title: National Insurance Co. advertising blotter, Bangor, ca. 1871
- Creation Date: circa 1871
- Subject Date: circa 1871
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Lithograph
- Dimensions: 10 cm x 23.5 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
- Object Type: Text
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People
- Gallupe, Lucy Elizabeth
- Ingersoll, Frances Hilliard
- Lander, Laura Emma
- Martin, John
- Shaw, Sara C.
- Shaw, Sara Harrell
- Stubbs, Mary Jane
- Thurston, Isabel Redington
- Wing, Maria Louise
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