Name/Title
Framed 1926 insurance policy for an Alameda businessEntry/Object ID
2025.106.1Description
Acc. No. 25.106.1
Subject Category: Documents
Date or Period: 1926
Object: Framed insurance policy for an Alameda business
Description: Document of lithographic form, on yellowed paper, titled 'Niagara Fire Insurance Company' with handwritten in caligraphed letters in black ink, the name Clifford G Mehrtens, of Alameda. Also added in the same hand: 'Fire, also Automobile Hazards'. Behind glass in period dark wooden frame with single plain border. Dated, 5th of March 1926.
Size: H 16 x W 11
History of Object: Certificate appointing Clifford G. Mehrtens, of Alameda, agent of the Niagara Fire Insurance Company, for Fire and Car insurance. Mehrtens had a real estate and insurance business on Webster Street; he was also a notary public (see 96.385.44).
Donor: Eric Hopper
Donation Date: 11/1/2025
Catalog as Prop: 11/3/2025