Description
Black and white 10″ x 13 1/2″ ad for Life Insurance. The ad has a photograph of the twentieth President of the United States, James A. Garfield, and tells a short story of his life. He had to borrow money from another man in order to go to college and took out a Life Insurance policy payable to the other man until the debt was repaid. His schooling enabled him to succeed and, eventually, be elected President. He then took out another Life Insurance policy using New York Life Insurance Company as the insurer. The ad claims that he had only made the first payment when he was assassinated but one payment was enough. The year of this ad, 1935, was the Ninetieth Anniversary and the text claims that, including Garfield, there had been seven Presidents of the United States that had been insured by New York Life Insurance Company.
Source: February 23, 1935 Saturday Evening Post.
