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MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA SEPT. 1846 - OCT. 1849

1849ref. 70885Chester Co. PA 1849. Stitched sheets 30 cm. 36 pp. in ink first and last pages detached some chipping around edges a tender copy. Old staining to gutters extending into the text occasionally obscuring some words on the first few leaves else in a clear clerical hand. Manuscript notes a record of the meetings of the Board of Managers for this Fire Insurance Company from Sept. 23 1846 to Oct. 15 1849. A close look at the inner workings of a small local fire insurance company. The first entry called a meeting of the Board of Managers at the house of Jacob E. Parke Downington and recorded the names of the members including Morris Cope Solomon Lukens Davis Hoopes Morris Whitson Jno. Templeton Charles Downing Joseph M. Thompson Joseph Hickman Bernard also spelled Baynard Way William P. Townsend and David Wilson. This is followed by a long list of 21 names and locations of the persons appointed receivers for the coming year. The Treasurer Joseph M. Thompson gave "instructions to receivers" for collecting payment of dues for depositing those fees in a secure banking institution and for accurate reporting of the payments to the company. For their efforts they were to deduct a one percent commission on their collections. The notes also record officers' salaries and the payments to committee members appointed to fix premiums of one dollar a day plus 5 cents a mile for travel. Over the course of the other meeting notes mention is made of the claims of several of the insured for payments for fire damage to dwellings barns and businesses. In January 1847 Rebecca W. Lukens received $25 "to be distributed among the persons who were usefully active in extinguishing the fire in the rolling Mill of said R.W. Lukens sometime ago." Louis Bachman of North Coventry Township Wm. McCullough of Cecil Co. and Jacob Emery of Salisbury Township all recovered claims for partial damage to their dwellings in these years. One case related to the loss of Hayes Clark's Cotton Factory was disputed because he had not paid the initial interest due on his policy before a conflagration took the entire operation on Doe Run. Details of the dispute resurface in several meetings. The company eventually paid his claim. The meeting notes also established premium amounts for various structures rating buildings as first second third and fourth class; differentiating between costs to insure stone or brick barns and those built of wood; and accounting for variations in types of businesses insured including cabinet makers smith shops taverns and book sellers. An end of the year financial accounting for 1847 reported 2194 perpetual policies issued and advance amounts of money thereon as $3788.64. In 1848 premiums were adjusted for property situated within 200 yards of any railroad on which locomotives ran. A long list of increases in premium rates for affected dwellings and businesses followed. In January 1849 a resolution was passed to make alterations to one of the company's fire proof safes to make it capable of holding copies of their insurance policies. John Smith Futhey in his book "History of Chester County Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches" Phila. PA: 1881 p.391 describes the history of this fire insurance company. Chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature on April 21 1840 it was organized that May with Joseph M. Thompson as President Enoch Harlan as secretary and Amos Fredd as treasurer. It began issuing policies of five years duration members being assessed to meet losses occuring each insurer being a member. At the end of the five years the company proving successful perpetual policies began to be issued substituting for the "first or five-year ones. To furnish insurance at the lowest possible cost has been the aim of the company and its success in that direction is perhaps without a parallel in the history of fire insurance." In an article in The Jeffersonian newspaper of Jan. 25 1848 the "Report of the Board of Managers of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chester Co." appears with details of the company's finances. The company "went into operation" in 1840 and had since paid out over $26000 for losses by fire. It also stated that if things continued as they had been going they estimated they would soon be able to reduce the annual payment due from members from 6% "to such less percentage as may be deemed sufficient. unknown books

Bartlebys Books · Estados Unidos275,00 US$≈ 245,69 €

[Natural Disasters - Canada - Great Miramichi Fire - Disaster Relief] McLeod, GeorgeABAA

1825 Letter Describing the Collection of 230 Bushels of Potatoes and Clothing for Survivors of the Great Miramichi Fire

1825ref. BK0033Bailey's Brook Nova Scotia 1825. Autograph letter signed "Geo. McLeod" to John Young Esq. Halifax. Stampless folded letter with manuscript "7 / Paid" rate "Post Paid" notation and a clear "POST OFFICE PICTOU / PAID" handstamp. Light filing folds; very good. A contemporary account of rural relief organized for survivors of the Great Miramichi Fire written only eighteen days after the disaster. George McLeod reports traveling personally through Bailey's Brook and the surrounding settlements to solicit provisions and clothing gathering approximately 230 bushels of potatoes together with "considerable articles of wearing apparel" for immediate shipment through Pictou: "I went yesterday in person through the small settlement of Bailey's Brook & its vicinity in quest of some aide for the sufferers & have the pleasure to say that the inhabitants individually contributed very liberally according to their ability. I this day received from them into my store about 230 bushels buntatoes sic & considerable articles of wearing apparel & much more could be obtained if time permitted." The letter is particularly revealing about the material circumstances of disaster relief in a cash-poor agricultural community. The residents had little money available and "nothing else at hand" as their grain had not yet been threshed and the lateness of the season required them to contribute whatever could be gathered and transported without delay-nonetheless they were "willing to give." McLeod notes that additional supplies had been collected at Merigomish and would be combined with those from Bailey's Brook sent to the committee at Pictou and forwarded onward to Miramichi. He also records keeping a list of the individual contributors and the articles supplied under each name. We find no other examples of documents or primary source materials relating to the disaster in commerce or in auction records. A focused primary document of one of the largest fires in early Canadian history with a detailed description of the mechanics of relief. . unknown books

Auger Down Books · Estados Unidos1500,00 US$≈ 1340,12 €

D'Arcet, Jean-Pierre-Joseph - FIRE GILT BRONZEABAA

Mémoire sur l'art de dorer le bronze: ouvrage qui a remporté le prix fondé par M. Ravrio et proposé par l'Académie royale des sciences

1818ref. 25055Paris: De l'imprimerie de Mme. veuve Agasse Rue des Poitevins no 6 1818. First Edition. Contemporary half leather. Very good; occasional spotting; modest rubbing. 8vo xl 1 - 192 2 - folding tables pp. 6 leaves of plates Rare. Among the most lethal of the commercial decorative-arts trades practiced in the 18th & 19th centuries. The gilding of bronze castings and the high finish and design achieved for such articles was a defining characteristic and mainstay of the Parisian clock furniture and arts trade. So dominant were the Parisian merciers in this that attempts to establish competitive practitioners of gilding in other nations all failed. The author's Ottomeyer & Pröschel have characterized the trade in their epoch two volume Vergoldete Bronzen 1986 as vol.1 p.323: "Das Pariser Vorbild blieb im 19. Jahrhundert wie auch auf vielen anderen Gebieten der Mode und des Luxus stets tonangebend. Die Geschichte der Bronzearbeiten während des Empire und der Restauration die sich nicht davon trennen läßt ist geprägt von der Abkehr von handwerklicher Gestaltung und Produktionsweise und dem zunehmenden Übergang zu Groß- serien der Luxusindustrie. Die genau nach Plan gefertigten Teile gingen durch viele Hände. Die additiven Strukturen der Herstellung durch die Serienfertigung bestimmt finden sich in der Formgebung wieder bei der die präzise abgestimmten vorgefertigten Metallteile wie Bausteine zusammengesetzt wurden.Es ist schwer zu sagen ob der Stil die Produktionsweise ermöglichte oder aber die Produktionsweise den Stil bestimmte der die Bronzearbeiten in ihrer kohärenten Formgebung bei additiver Zusammensetzung auszeichnet." D'Arcet's book is exceptional for its detailed exposition of the trade and the means to accomplishing the finished product. The book was printed by Mme. Agasse who was both printer and bookseller. De l'imprimerie de Mme. veuve Agasse, Rue des Poitevins, no 6 hardcover books

Palinurus Antiquarian Books · Estados Unidos2000,00 US$≈ 1786,83 €

[San Francisco Earthquake and Fire]: [Hughes, William H]:ABAA

COLLECTION OF TWENTY-NINE ORIGINAL SILVER ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF SAN FRANCISCO DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE OF 1906 SHOWING THE DEVASTATION IN THE CITY AS WELL AS RELIEF EFFORTS IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH.

1906ref. 61981San Francisco. 1906. Photographs of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 A remarkable collection of photographs taken immediately after the San Francisco earthquake and fires of April 1906 showing the scope of the damage to the city as well as providing a stark reminder of the human toll taken by what is considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history. Many of these images are apparently unpublished having been produced by an Army engineer and used to accompany a report on earthquake relief efforts made for the United States Senate. Although there was a quick and immediate response from San Francisco's large military population the earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3000 people and left over 200000 San Francisco residents homeless. Fifteen of the twenty-nine images in this collection are signed in the negative "Hughes Fort Mason" or simply "Hughes" and were almost certainly taken by Private William H. Hughes a member of the First Battalion Corps of Engineers stationed at Fort Mason located on the bay at the northern edge of San Francisco. The other fourteen are not signed by a photographer but some of them may have also been taken by Hughes. Troops from Fort Mason were the first military units to respond following the earthquake of April 18 1906. There was no photography studio at Fort Mason in 1906 but Private Hughes was acknowledged as being "a very efficient photographer" for John Steven Sewell's report on the 1906 disaster "The Effects of the Earthquake and Fire on Buildings Engineering Structures and Structural Materials" for the United States Geologic Survey. Many of Hughes' photographs from the present series accompany the Army's report to the U.S. Senate on earthquake and fire relief efforts now housed with the records of the United States Senate in the National Archives. Since many of the images in this series were taken for the relief effort report to the Senate there is a focus on the human aspect of the disaster. As far as we know Hughes' photographs were not published except in conjunction with the Army report to the Senate. The photographs in the present collection include an image of members of San Francisco's business community dressed in suits bowler hats and patent leather shoes helping to haul a fire hose close to an active fire; a small group of people viewing the devastation following the quake and during the fire; San Francisco residents cooking in the street and queuing for food and bedding; and a panoramic view of the of a San Francisco refugee camp near Fort Mason showing some refugees just starting to set up their tents. There are also two images showing the tragic loss of life during this disaster – one deceased man pinned upside down in a pile of rubble and another within a panoramic view of city-wide devastation pinned by a massive beam in the basement of what was likely his home. This collection of original photographs shows the devastation and the very human tragedy left in the wake of the San Francisco earthquake and fire with four of the photographs showing the fire in progress and two showing the loss of men killed by the rubble in which they were trapped. Fifteen of the photographs carry the imprint "Hughes" or "Hughes Fort Mason" in the negative those that do not are numbers 3 4 5 9 13 14 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 and 29 below. The photographs included in this collection are captioned as follows captions in the negatives are given within quotes; those without captions have our descriptive caption provided: 1 "52 Union St." remaining caption is indecipherable. Image of severe ground upheaval on Union Street with cable car tracks lifted above ground level the brick street sinking and concrete sidewalks shattered. Pedestrians walk in the street and children sit on the cable-car tracks dangling their feet in the deep crevices alongside. 2 "53 Birds-eye view of camp around Fort Mason." A hilltop view of the tent city in the open areas that surround Fort mason on the left. 3 "54" A long line of men women and children along a fence in a residential neighborhood are lined up to receive canned goods from the military. 4 "55" A group of men near a crumbling building receive tents and mattresses. 5 "56" Twenty men in suits patent leather shoes and bowler hats shoulder a fire hose and walk toward burning Victorian row houses in the distance. 6 "62" Men in bowler hats and suits picking through the rubble in the foreground with the hulking remains of shattered buildings rising through smoke in the background. A uniformed soldier stands in the corner right. An almost identical picture signed by Hughes Fort Mason is in the National Archives collection captioned by the Archives as "No. 63. Souvenir hunters." 7 "67" Sailors disembark and march off the marina boardwalk in front of the ferry "Garden City" packed with passengers. 8 "68" Women and men crowd together at the top of a hill viewing the ruins of their devastated city shrouded in billowing smoke before them. The identical picture signed by Hughes is in the National Archives collection captioned by the archives as "Fire partially under control - 3rd day." 9 "69" Shows the front of two Victorian row houses on Howard Street sinking into the ground as a result of liquefaction of alluvial soil. 10 "70 Cooking in Street after Earthquake." Families on either side of a woman cooking on a cast iron stove on a residential street lined with Victorian row houses. The identical picture signed by Hughes Fort Mason is in the National Archives collection captioned by the archives as "Chimneys were destroyed and cooking in houses was prohibited." 11 "71" Two members of the military stand on a corner next to the remains of a blasted church. 12 "72" A view of the remains of a residential neighborhood from the top of a hill showing ground rupture and surface faulting as well as an active fire. 13 "84" Shows a large group of families waiting near a large garage for distribution of emergency supplies. 14 "85" Near the end of a long line of families waiting for distribution of emergency food including canned roast beef and corned beef. 15 "F5 75 St. Dominic's church." A view of the ruins of the St. Dominic church towers as seen looking North on Steiner Street near Bush Street. 16 "F8 Wrecked by earthquake." Shows a multi-story furniture dealer's warehouse with much of the facade having crumbled away. 17 "F15 View from Turk St between Jones and Hyde." A view looking up the southern slope of Nob Hill showing the ruins of what was then informally called the "Tenderloin District." 18 "F17 Ruins of Hall of Justice." A view of the ruins of San Francisco's Hall of Justice from Kearney Street. The Hall of Justice housed the city jail as well as the Coroner's office and San Francisco's criminal and civil courts. Red Cross tents are set up at the base of the building with saddles and tack for the city's mounted police on a saddle stand in the foreground. 19 Unnumbered. "Refugees in the vicinity of Fort Mason." A tent city that sprung up in the open land surrounding Fort Mason to shelter all those who lost their homes during the earthquake and fire. Within the picture there are various vignettes: a mother and father leaning down to speak to their children seated on the ground near their tent; a father holding a baby up to its mother while another man works on building their tent; a large family working together to assemble their tent while the mother father and a young girl wearing a white pinafore and hat talk to each other over some provisions. Entire iron double beds and rockers are sitting alongside tents and there are a number of family horses picketed beside tents. 20 Unnumbered. On Broadway looking up Battery toward the fires on Telegraph Hill and the headquarters of the American Biscuit Company at 855 Battery Street. 21 Unnumbered. "North Beach – after the Fire." Looking from the water across towards the smoking ruins of North Beach. 22 Unnumbered. A view looking south on Steiner Street past the French Bakery toward the ruins of St. Dominic's Church. Steiner Street is filled with horse-drawn vehicles an early motor car and pedestrians. 23 Unnumbered. The ruins of San Francisco City Hall viewed from Larkin and Grove streets. City officials and members of the military stand on a crumbled wall in the foreground. Having been built over twenty-five years on sandy wet ground and according to a later investigation "without any of the principles of the steel frame construction having been used" this iteration of San Francisco's City Hall with the exception of the dome fell to the ground in the forty-five to sixty seconds that the earthquake lasted. 24 Unnumbered. A military supply depot likely at Fort Mason fronted by sand bags with a member of the military leaning against boxes of supplies. Piles of furniture and statuary are near the right-most door with another member of the military seated at his leisure before them. A group of civilians gather around some furniture on the ground at the far right. 25 Unnumbered. The image of a deceased man in a suit under a pile of rubble. The man appears upside down in the top left of the photograph with his body having been draped and/or pinned by rubble above him. His left hand is draped down below his face caught between a stone and the metal plate at the end of a support rod. The skin of his forehead is pushed into a series of concentric folds and the iris of his right eye is pushed beyond the edge of the outer canthus. 26 Unnumbered. The image of a deceased man buried within the rubble of what looks to have been a residential building. Initially one would assume this photograph is simply of the wide swath of devastation left by the earthquake in the foreground and in the distance but a careful view of the tangle of metalwork in the foreground along the remains of a steel beam shows a man standing but slumped to his left pinned by metal supports. Part of his head and right shoulder are in view with his face looking outward through the tangle of rubble before him. In the distance a group of three men stand on top of the rubble. 27 Unnumbered. A member of the military looking pensive while seated on fallen and twisted decorative metalwork atop a pile of brick rubble near building ruins. 28 Unnumbered. The ruins of residential buildings with piles of brick and metalwork in the foreground and the standing remains of buildings beyond. 29 Unnumbered. The ruins of Victorian row houses with shattered windows; the sidewalk and street before them show ground rupture and surface faulting. A very informative and evocative group of original photographs showing the utter devastation and human misery in San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fires. Some light wrinkling from handling. Faint toning to the edges and a stain on the verso of one print not affecting the image. Very good. Housed in a modern binder. John Stephen Sewell "The Effects of the Earthquake and Fire on Buildings Engineering Structures and Structural Materials" in Grove Karl Gilbert et al. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18 1906 and Their Effects on Structures and Structural Materials Washington 1907 p.63. National Archives. San Francisco Earthquake 1906. Center for Legislative Archives September 30 2020. "Historical Vignette 101 - The Army Engineers Were Key Responders to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire" U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters website April 2006. hardcover books

William Reese Company · Estados Unidos2250,00 US$≈ 2010,19 €

FIRE SCREENSABAA

A pair of embroidered silk fire screens

1830ref. 4479France 1830. Two matching embroidered pole fire screens oblong octagonals 202 x 290 mm. sides of silk over thin boards or scaleboards the decorated side of beige satin silk with a large central flowerpot containing sprigs and a large pink bow within ornate floral border between two white braided thread borders outermost gilt ribbon border with tiny loops; the designs composed of metallic thread pink flat sequins molded white or silvery sequins and couched gilt leaves: embossed leaves on the plant and flat leaves in the border; the reverse sides covered in plain dark rose silk contemporary bone and wood handles with small screws on back. One screen lacking a tiny embossed leaf the other screen lacking four of the same and with one leaf almost detached. A handsome pair of embroidered hand-held fire screens probably from the first decades of the 19th century in fine condition. "A beautiful addition to any room decorative pole screens served an important function in the 18th century: The tall thin screens shielded people's faces from the direct heat of the fire. In the 17th and 18th centuries both men and women wore makeup to hide blemishes. It was said that before he turned fifty the Prince Regent's face had turned waxen and copper colored from make up. The cosmetic preparation worn to hide small pox was thick and made up of wax and white lead. The lead was toxic especially when warmed and the heat from a fire could be life threatening. A pole screen protected the face from intense heat and prevented the wax from melting and the cosmetics from interacting with the skin. The earliest panels were made of wicker but these were replaced with beautiful needlework or embroidered panels that came in many shapes and sizes - oval heart-shaped rectangular etc. By the late 18th century skin disfiguration caused by plagues was no longer as prevalent as before and smaller polescreens became more fashionable."- Jane Austen's World website viewed 4-6-26. unknown books

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · Estados Unidos3000,00 US$≈ 2680,25 €

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