Scrapbooks, 1912-1915.

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Scrapbooks, 1912-1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155472774

Scrapbooks containing clippings on fire at the headquarters of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1912, and some other topics.

2.2 cubic ft.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6874962

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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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...