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As the scanning and organization process takes quite a while, and sourcing and buying books is so much more fun than the scanning, I've got a number of books (mostly the larger books) ready to be scanned. I've also got a number of more interesting titles in transit to me.
Coming soon:
- "1909 Unique Manual of facts and figures of the Regular Life Insurance companies and their Dividends." The book is described as:mostly tables of numbers for the varies Life insurance providers. Alot to do with rates.
- "1850 - The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company - Charter Perpetual Fifth Annual Report with tables of Rates for Single and Joint Lives, Annuities and Endowments".
Books that are big enough that I've not been brave enough to tackle them yet:
- Cases on Insurance from the early 1900's. 900 pages.
- Wisconsin Insurance Report for Fire and Marine, 1896
- Maine Insurance Report 1904
- "The Handy Guide" 1918. 1300 pages showing rates by age for hundreds of insurance companies as well as commentary and tables on reserve values. Kind of like an early Stone and Cox.
- New York Insurance Report 1888
- Sovereign Life rate book (Canadian) from the early 1900's.
- Met Life rate book from the early 1900's. Includes an industrial occupation rating list. Those are always neat as there are so many jobs no longer in existence. It would also seem that workers in the Asbestos industry don't get rated for disability insurance for example.
- Stone and Cox insurance tables 1929. I haven't yet confirmed that I can duplicate this book yet so it may not be made available. The copyright is questionable, and the company is still in business so I've got to seek their permission first.
- Cases on Insurance 1900. Not sure if I'll scan this yet. The books in rough shape and scanning will likely destroy it. In addition the pages have tons of handwritten notes in the margin which will cause problems with the conversion to text.
- 1924 Miniota Farmers Mutual fire insurance policy insuring a barn and three granaries.
There's also a book written by Charles Babbage (inventor of the computer) on insurance. I'm seeking a reasonable priced copy of that book but haven't yet found one. As well if anyone's aware of any books by early actuaries or statisticians who heavily contributed to the profession I'd appreciate being contacted, history@americanterm.com. I'm particularly interested in any works by Gompertz or Babbage. While my initial efforts have centered around items I've found neat and interesting, the items are typically daily use type of items of interest for those in the industry but not neccessarily historically significant. I'm interested in sourcing books that are instead more historically relevant (though I'm not giving up on the books and items I just find curious and neat).