Name/Title
Brady Insurance blotters and envelopesEntry/Object ID
2025.24.01Description
Fourteen advertising ink blotters from the Brady Insurance agency.
Seven of the plain blotters were provided by the Great American Insurance Company New York, The Continental Insurance Company, Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Atlas Assurance Company Limited, the New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company and The London Assurance.
Four blotters from the Northern Assurance Company have seasonal advertising themes: Don't juggle your protection, Come to the New York World's Fair - The World of To-Morrow, Your Check - when you need it most, and That Cock-O-the-Walk Feeling.
October 1947 "You won't have even a ghost of a worry" calendar blotter from Maryland Casualty Company Baltimore.
Best wishes for Christmas blotter branded only L.H. Brady, agent 151 Butler Street.
These items were originally given the accession number 95-90-9 a-n.
Four L.B. Brady business envelopes for his agency, co-branded for the Insurance Co. of North America, the Royal Insurance Company, Limited and the Detroit National Fire Insurance Company with the address 151 Butler Street. These items were originally given the accession number 95-90-6abc.Context
Specifically these blotters show the wide range of insurance products offered by the Brady agency.
151 Butler was the address of the Fruit Growers State Bank that is now the Mize rose garden at the SE corner of Butler and Mason Streets.Collection
Commercial businessesCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2025.24Acquisition Method
Donation, unconditionalLocation
Box
025 Saugatuck Douglas Commercial HistoryRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Brady/L.R. Brady Insurance Company, Brady, Lemuel "Lem" Rawlings Sr. 1889-1959, Mize Rose Garden north side/Fruit Growers State Bank/Clapp's Grocery/Flint's Shoes/Walz Meat Market/Griffin/TannerCreate Date
June 17, 2025Update Date
June 17, 2025
