Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States photographs, 1948 Dec 9-1972 Mar 13 : Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y.

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Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States photographs, 1948 Dec 9-1972 Mar 13 : Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29601573

Photographs, 1948-1972, of commercial buildings (hotels, banks, office buildings, plazas, stores and foundries). These buildings were possibly insured by Equitable Life Assurance Society.

27 photonegatives.

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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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...