Waterbury Clock Co. Hartford Accident Insurance Company
Publisher:
Asher & Adams. New York
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
58
Obj Width cm:
43
Note:
Illustrated text page trimmed in red. Hartford Insurance illustration includes impending accidents and a smiling elk. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark twain) is noted as being on the Hartford Board of Directors. Engraved.
Reference:
P1300.
Full Title:
Waterbury Clock Co. Manufacturers of Clocks and Clock Materials. Hartford Accident Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. (1875)
List No:
4977.089
Series No:
94
Engraver or Printer:
Asher & Adams
Publication Author:
Asher & Adams
Pub Date:
1875
Pub Title:
Asher & Adams' New Columbian Rail Road Atlas and Pictorial Album of American Industry, Comprising a Series of New Copper Plate Maps Exhibiting the Thirty-Seven States ... Together With Illustrations and Descriptions of Mercantile and Manufacturing Establishments, Machinery, Works of Art, Mechanism, Trade-Marks, Etc., Etc. ... Compiled, Written, Drawn and Engraved Under the Supervision Of The Publishers, By Their Own Corps of Editors, Engineers, Topographers, and Artists.... New York: Asher & Adams, No. 59 Beekman Street. 1875
Pub Reference:
P1300.
Pub Note:
This is a very unusual and wonderful atlas - it combines the most complete Asher & Adams atlas map set (the same grouping as the late 1874 issue, but updated - see our #41) bound unfolded on edge (this is a huge book) with beautiful illustrations opposite each map of industrial establishments, products, and machinery. It has become very scarce. Its sheer size probably meant that the edition was small in number. Several of the maps are updated and copyrighted 1875; Colorado is substantially changed with the introduction of mountain ranges with "Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead Mineral Belt" overprinted on them. There may have been an 1883 issue of this atlas by George Adams, not listed in Phillips.
