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Edward J. Drake would very much like to say that he insured Theodore Roosevelt, and asks if there is any chance he would be interested in purchasing a small policy. Drake recalls a mutual friend he shares with Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-08
Edwin R. Stamps, an insurance agent with Travelers Insurance Company, asks Theodore Roosevelt to write a letter endorsing the company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-01
William Emlen Roosevelt asks President Roosevelt for a letter of introduction which he can mail to Governor Higgins along with a request for an appointment. William Emlen Roosevelt intends to discuss with Higgins a bill recently passed by the legislature that limits investments in insurance companies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-15
A business card featuring the contact information for insurance broker Joseph F. Burns.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-30
This note says that if it becomes appropriate for Congress to exercise supervision over the business of interstate and international insurance, Congress will be able to provide additional protection that states cannot. Congress could ensure that American companies and foreign companies receive the same equality of treatment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-23
At center, a capitalist sits on money bags labeled “Insurance Money” and leans against several papers labeled “New Policy.” He is gambling with the Grim Reaper, while all around them disasters are happening. A panic-stricken crowd flees a burning theater, a hotel and a tenement building are on fire, a side-wheeler steam ship has exploded, an ocean liner sinks, and a railroad train has crashed. At each of these disasters is a notice that states “Heavily Insured.” Caption: Too Enterprising American Capitalist – Keep up the game! I can lose nothing – I’m heavily insured.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-01-24
Print shows New York State Supreme Court justice Theodoric R. Westbrook wearing the white robe of Justice and his head mostly bound with cloth. The balance scale of justice sits at his feet, and he hands a crowbar, or “jimmy,” labeled “By Order of the Court,” to a masked man. Another man, in the background, is using a similar bar to pry open doors labeled “Broken, Assets, Stockholders Money, [and] Policy Holders Money.” Next to Westbrook is a container labeled “Court Orders” filled with crowbars. His left hand rests on a piece of paper that states “Supreme Court – Decisions by Everybody’s Friend – Westbrook.” Caption: How the receivers get at the assets of “busted” insurance companies.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-05-24
Print shows a ship labeled “Wrecked Corporation” and “Insurance Co. Bankrupt” that has wrecked on rocks with a darkened lighthouse labeled “Trust” and “Justice” nearby. The light has been snuffed by “Judge” and “Corruption.” Victims of the wreck, some clinging to the ship, others in the water, are labeled “Policy Holder” and “Pillaged Policy Holder.” A rope from the ship to shore is held by a “Receiver,” a “Lawyer,” and a “Shore Shark,” and is coiled around a money bag labeled “Fee.” Another “Lawyer,” using a gaff, reaches for a barrel labeled “Fees” that bobs in the water near the ship. Standing near the lighthouse is a man labeled “Referee” who is holding a pan labeled “False Beacon” that spews illuminated smoke labeled “By Order of the Court.” The man burns papers labeled “Waste, Outrageous Extravagance, Extortion, [and] Cost.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-03-15
A well-dressed businessman, wearing top hat and coat and a button that states “Don’t Knock, Boost,” sits atop a pile of account ledgers labeled “How to Evade the Law, Juggled Books, Secret Rebate Account, [and] Bribery Stubs,” money bags labeled “Yellow Dog Fund, Private Graft, Other People’s Money, [and] Public Service Graft,” boxes labeled “Stock Gambling Acc., Syndicate Profits, [and] Fees,” and other items labeled “Fees” and “Worthless Collateral.” A notice attached to the pile states “Destroy if Investigated.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-11-20
Volume I, Number 6 of the newspaper, “a National Journal devoted to Politics, Literature and Finance.” This issue includes a portion of an address on federalism by Alexander Del Mar given before the Liberal Club of New York City, as well as details of the debate that followed Del Mar’s remarks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1873-02-22
English