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Chicago. 118-132 E 20 Street.<\/p>\n<p>The design can be executed in any medium and I trust that I may hear that you have selected one of them when I reach Chicago about June 1st 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\n[illegible]shander Smith<br \/>\nMay 8th, 1916<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Charles Jasper.&#8221; <em>Spokane and The Spokane Country &#8211; Pictorial and Biographical &#8211; Deluxe Supplement.<\/em> Vol. II. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912. (No author listed.) pgs. 224-226. http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\/~jtenlen\/cjasper.html (6 June 2002).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Western Union Life Spokane Stock Certificate Design<\/strong><br \/>\nChicago: 1916<br \/>\nWatercolor, conte crayon and pencil on paper<br \/>\n12 inches diameter<br \/>\n20 x 14 inches overall<br \/>\nSigned center left of image<br \/>\nDated and inscribed at bottom of page<\/p>\n<p>An illustrative design, presumably either for a stock certificate, bank note or stationery emblem. It is extensively inscribed with a note from a Mr. Smith at Western Bank Note and Engraving, a printing firm in Chicago, to a Mr. August Wolf at Western Union Life in Spokane, Washington. Western Union Life is not listed as a subsidiary company of the Western Union Telegraph Company on the Smithsonian Institute&#8217;s site devoted to the Western Union Telegraph archives. However, there is an online reference to a Western Union Life Building in Spokane in 1912 (see &#8220;Charles Jasper&#8221; below). It was probably an insurance company, an assumption supported by this drawing, which features a serene man in Roman classical garb reclining in the foreground, while behind him are a mother and child in contemporary dress, with a sunburst motif filling the background. 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