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Colored print from Hiram Van Campen Life Insurance Agency showing 40 private signal flags of the New Bedford Whaling Fleet, each from a different company. States that the agency's capital represented is $15,000,000, and that "sea faring men insured without extra charge". Date of establishment given as 1852.


whales
1852-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Kampen, Hiram van; Kampen, S. van
ink; paper; mounting
14 in x 8 1/2 in
United States: New Bedford