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Atlas Insurance Company records, 1895-1911 (bulk 1906 Apr. 19-Dec.).
BANC MSS 89/206 cLOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Atlas Insurance Company records, 1895-1911 (bulk 1906 Apr. 19-Dec.)

Creator/Contributor:

Atlas Insurance Company (London, England), creator

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

Correspondence and related papers chiefly concerning the open insurance liability of the Atlas Insurance Company, and the situation for insurance companies generally following the San Francico earthquake and fire of 1906. Includes telegrams and letters describing the earthquake and fire, beginning with initial reports by Devlin, the company's agent in San Francisco, and including correspondence between the New York office and the company's headquarters in London.

Date:

1895 (issued)

Subject:

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Insurance -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco
Fires -- California -- San Francisco
Assurance -- Californie -- San Francisco
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906
Tremblements de terre -- Californie -- San Francisco
Incendies -- Californie -- San Francisco
Earthquakes
Fires
Insurance
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
California
California -- San Francisco

Note:

Also available in digital format: accessible through Online Archive of California.
3 b/w print views of the ruins of San Francisco transferred to the Pictorial Collection of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1988.092--PIC).

Type:

History.

Physical Description:

print
1 box (.4 linear ft.)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 89/206 cLOCAL

Origin:

California