Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies maps and plans
Creation: 1893-1942Abstract
The Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies comprised twenty-eight mutual insurance firms that specialized in industrial fire insurance. The collection consists of seventy original hand-colored plans and maps primarily depicting textile mills, paper products factories and foundries in New England and New York.
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1942
Creator
- Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies (Organization)
Extent
70 item(s)
Historical Note
The Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies comprised twenty-eight mutual insurance firms that specialized in industrial fire insurance. The oldest such firm was founded in Providence, R.I., in 1835, and the organization spread outward from the New England textile industry to cover a wide range of industrial firms throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Associated Companies maintained a central testing laboratory for testing and accrediting fire control apparatus and electrical equipment, as well as centralized engineering and appraisal departments. The Plan Division produced and distributed fire insurance maps and plans of individual insured properties.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of seventy original hand-colored plans and maps. Most are single sheets, approximately 21" x 26" containing a site plan and axonometric drawing with materials denoted by a watercolor wash. The sheets also contain a printed synopsis of the plant and available fire protection systems. The subjects are primarily textile mills, paper products factories and foundries in New England and New York. About a quarter of the sheets are maps of urban water-main systems in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. One sheet is a panorama of the New Jersey Zinc Company's West Plant at Palmerton, Pa.
Existence and Location of Copies
View this collection, with the exception of the oversized New Jersey Zinc Company of Pennsylvania map, online in the Hagley Digital Archives.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access.
Language of Materials
English
Subjects
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Fire insurance maps
- Author:
- Clayton J. Ruminski
- Date:
- 2019
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
