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American Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. S.E. corner Fourth and Walnut Street. [graphic]
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Title
American Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. S.E. corner Fourth and Walnut Street. [graphic]
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1868]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description
Exterior view showing the company's central office building, known as the American Building. A large clock hangs from the corner of the building. Incorporated in 1850, the company was formed in part to further the cause of temperance by offering considerable discounts on life insurance products to signers of the total abstinence pledge. Company occupied this building from 1854 to 1888.
Notes
Pale green mount with square corners.
Title from advertising text printed on verso.
Text on verso lists Alexander Whillden as president and John S. Wilson as secretary of the company. These men served together from 1862 to 1872.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
American Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia.
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Temperance -- United States.
Geographic subject
Walnut Street (Philadelphia Pa.) -- southeast corner of Fourth.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - business - American [P.9058.165]
Accession number
P.9058.165
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