Audio-visual collection, [ca. 1860-1985]

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Audio-visual collection, [ca. 1860-1985]

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Photographs, audio and video tapes, clippings, calendars, advertising posters, and other material. Photographs concern the officers and personnel of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, interiors, exteriors, and construction of its offices and buildings, employee activities and clubs, dinners and other events, World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964, and other subjects. Tapes include speeches by officers, promotional material, and Bicentennial announcements.

ca. 70 cubic ft.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6874954

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)

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"Negro Week" was a program on the contributions of blacks to American culture held at the New York World's Fair in July 1940, and consisted of festivals, exhibitions, song and dance recitals, choral and symphonic music, concerts, religious services, guest speakers, and a children's program. From the description of New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122580393 From the guide to the New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940, (The...

New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)

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Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (ELAS) was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899). It became, by the year of Hyde’s death, the largest life insurance company in the world. Hyde sought to guarantee that his son, James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), would continue family control of the company after his death, but in 1905 the younger Hyde lost control in a struggle which resulted from an investigation of the insurance industry by New York State. From the g...