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  • Advertising mirror, Home Real Estate, Loan, & Insurance Co.
  • Advertising mirror from Home Real Estate, Loan, & Insurance Co. The non-mirror side is orange, white, and black, with a picture of a building in the center and text reading: "Home Real Estate, Loan, & Insurance Co. / Dollars for Dirt / Dollars for...
  • The Home Real Estate, Loan & Insurance Company was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1906. The company is still in business, with the grandson and great granddaughter of the founder, Sihon C. Ogburn, still active in the business. The...
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  • Advertising mirror with clock face, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.
  • Advertising mirror from Wachovia Bank & Trust Company. The front of the mirror is designed to look like a clock face, with two movable hands. Text reads, "Out/ Will Return At/ Call No.1086/ Wachovia Bank & Trust Company/ W.A. Wilkinston, Mgr. Ins....
  • In 1879 the Wachovia National Bank was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Through a series of mergers and purchases, it became one of the largest financial service companies in the United States. The bank headquarters was later moved to...
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  • Advertising mirror, Dixie Fire Insurance Company
  • Advertising mirror from Dixie Fire Insurance Company. The front of the mirror features an image of a cotton plant encircled by two rings of text. The inner ring reads "DIXIE FIRE INSURANCE CO./GREENSBORO, N.C." The outer ring reads "THE FLAGS OF...
  • The Dixie Fire Insurance Company was organized in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1906, and underwrote insurance primarily in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The depiction of the flags of countries allied with the United States during...
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  • Watch fob, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
  • Watch fob with leather strap attached. The fob has a picture of a building and text that reads, "Home Office North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Durham, N.C."
  • The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which opened for business in Durham in 1899, grew into the oldest and largest African American life insurance company in the United States. Influential in its founding, and its first three...
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