1946 Travelers Insurance Shark Nicaragua Vintage Ad Accident Workmen 46 *You Choose Frame-Mat Colors-Free USA S&H*
- Authentic, Vintage Magazine Ad professionally matted and framed in an Historic Route 66 Town.
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Some of the text in this Vintage Ad:
The shark that has no business being here
SHARKs are supposed to live in salt water.
But swimming around between two mountain
ranges in Nicaragua is a shark that apparently
never read the natural history books. For this
shark makes its home in Lake Nicaragua, which
is fresh water. It has no business being there.
But it is certainly there-because during the
building of the Pan-American Highway, it was
a menace to workmen who wanted to bathe in
the lake, and, consequently, a problem for the
contractor and insurance company responsible
for the workmen's safety.
Man-eating sharks were only the beginning.
The builders of this highway had to deal with
jaguars, pumas, poisonous snakes, insects, dysentery,
malaria, treacherous mountain roads,
dynamite, landslides, floods, 120-degree temperatures,
live volcanoes, and razor-edged machetes,
among other perils.
And the Pan-American Highway-gigantic
project that it was-was only a part of the biggest
series of insurance risks ever tackled by an
insurance company.
We took these risks at the request of the U.S.
government early in the war. The United States
was building bases and highways and airfields
all over the world. These jobs were full of unknown
hazards and claim problems. Yet the
firms and men working on Army and Navy contracts
had to have insurance protection.
Naturally, we're proud of this record. But the
main reason we're telling you about it is this:
We'd like to help more contractors, manufacturers,
and merchants Stop accidents, save
lives, and money. We can show how we handled
tougher risks than peace times are likely to present
to us and cut insurance costs in doing it.
We have a service that's worth looking into,
worth backing when installed in any plant.
MORAL: Insure ln The Travelers. All forms of
insurance and Surety bonds. The Travelers
Insurance Company, The Travelers Indemnity
Company. The Travelers Fire Insurance Company,
The Charter Oak Fire Insurance Company,
Hartford, Connecticut.
A great Vintage Ad!
You pick your frame color, and you pick your mat color. We will mat and frame your Vintage Ad per your request and send it to you promptly. All you have to do is remove it from the box and hang it on the wall in your home, office, garage, man cave, or showroom!
We mat and frame original, vintage magazine ads...they are in good condition, but may not be perfect as they are many decades old. Frame outside dimensions are 15" x 12", and matted ad is approximately 9-5/8" x 6-5/8" (could be slightly different, depending on ad).
Frames and vintage ads are actual as shown, and mat is computer generated for online viewing. Actual mat is custom cut for each individual ad and mat color will be similar to the colors shown on the website. “Travel Route 3 Scan” watermark is placed on the ad for online viewing only, and is not part of the final product. Back side of Vintage Ad is glued to backing paper so that it continues to display flat over time. Here is what you will receive:
- New frame
- New mat
- New glass
- Vintage Ad
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