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Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
- Content Description
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Reports for Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore
- Reports for Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland
- Reports for American Equitable Assurance Company of New York: Spokane area reports on risks in fire insurance on homes, farms, commercial properties and merchandise.
- Reports for Lafayette Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia: Fire and grain policy reports from the Spokane area.
- Reports for other companies: Reports on a wide variety of miscellaneous risks insured under approximately thirty national companies.
- Names and Subjects
Guernsey-Newton Company Insurance Agency (Spokane, WA) Reports, ca. 1920-1930
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Guernsey-Newton Company Insurance Agency
- Title
- Guernsey-Newton Company Insurance Agency (Spokane, WA) Reports
- Dates
- ca. 1920-1930 (inclusive)19201930
- Quantity
- 22 containers., (11 linear feet of shelf space.), (10,000 items.)
- Collection Number
- Cage 22
- Summary
- Report forms and related correspondence of local insurance agencies received by Guernsey-Newton Company covering fire, automotive, workmen's compensation, liability and miscellaneous risks insured with several national insurance firms. This material contains data on homes, employment, incomes, and social conditions in Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
- Repository
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Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu - Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research use.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The records of the Guernsey-Newton Company, insurance general agents of Spokane, Washington, are a group of papers valuable as a source for data illustrative of the social history of the Inland Empire during the 1920s. The collection is primarily composed of the reporting forms compiled by local agents, under Guernsey-Newton supervision, for the determination of rates in insuring fire, automotive, liability, workmen's compensation and other risks. About 4,000 cases or policies are contained in the collection and most of these are written on two companies--the Maryland Casualty Company, Baltimore, Maryland, and the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland, Oregon. Individual cases are reported on forms having 40 to 60 entries apiece, totaling approximately 200,000 items of data about homes, employment, incomes and general living conditions in the Spokane area and much of eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
[Item Description]. CAge 22, Guide to the Guernsey-Newton Company Insurance Agency Reports. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Reports for Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore, 1920-1924Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| container | ||
| 1-2 | Automotive policy reports
including liability, collision and special accident coverage. |
|
| 3-6 | Workmen's compensation policy
reports covering agricultural, clerical, commercial, manufacturing, lumbering
and mining employees. |
|
| 7-8 | Special risks including
liability, burglary, plate glass, steam boiler, theatre public liability, teams
(horses) public liability, water damage, elevator liability and
bonds. |
Reports for Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland, 1920-1929Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| container | ||
| 9-12 | Reports from Spokane agencies
closely related to Guernsey-Newton Company which include fire insurance on
houses, commercial buildings, merchandise, furnishings and farm buildings. Also
automotive coverage. |
|
| 13-14 | Reports from the Alice Hair
Agency, Spokane, on fire and automotive policies. Also includes a number of
reports insuring musical instruments, principally pianos. |
|
| 15 | Reports from other Washington
state agencies on fire and automotive risks. Agents sales records
included. |
|
| 16-17 | Reports from Idaho agencies on
fire and automotive risks. Agents sales records included. |
Reports for American Equitable Assurance Company of New York: Spokane area reports on risks in fire insurance on homes, farms, commercial properties and merchandise., 1924-1927Return to Top
Container(s): Container 19
Reports for Lafayette Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia: Fire and grain policy reports from the Spokane area., 1927Return to Top
Container(s): Container 20
Reports for other companies: Reports on a wide variety of miscellaneous risks insured under approximately thirty national companies., 1922-1929Return to Top
Container(s): Container 21-22
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Insurance companies--Washington (State)--Spokane--Records and correspondence
Corporate Names
- Guernsey-Newton Company --Archives (creator)
Finding aid prepared by MASC
staff
2012
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
