print email comment close Firemarks URL: http://www.firemarks.co.uk/ Description: Search or browse this commercially-oriented site for hundreds of high-quality photographs of firemarks, which were emblems attached to buildings by insurance companies to indicate that the buildings were insured against fire damage. The practice began in London in the late 17th century and "carried on for two hundred and fifty years." Author: Addis, Roy Extra Keywords fire marks Library of Congress Subject Headings: Fire-marks Insurance, Fire -- Great Britain -- History LII Database Information: Record 2884 created by Karen Schneider on 06/16/2003 Last modification on 06/17/2003 Published: 06/16/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2884