{"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Insurance+policies.\u0026view=list","last":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Insurance+policies.\u0026page=1\u0026view=list"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":2,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"vi_vi00003","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00003#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Southern Aid Society of Virginia","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00003#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Southern Aid Society of Virginia business records contain 67 boxes of material ranging from 1893-1977 and arranged in five series. Series I consists of executive committee meeting minutes; Series II is employee records; Series III is financial account records and correspondence; Series IV contains policyholder records and correspondence; and Series V consists of memorabilia and miscellaneous material. 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II. Employee Records. III. Financial and\n Investment Account Records and Correspondence. IV.\n Policyholder Records and Correspondence. V. Memorabilia\n Miscellaneous.","In early 1893, a handful of men in Richmond, Virginia\n organized the Southern Aid and Insurance Company in an effort\n both to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection\n to African-Americans and to promote jobs for unemployed black\n youth. Chartered on February 25, 1893, Southern Aid and\n Insurance was the United States' first black owned and\n operated insurance company. The company founders chose Z.D.\n Lewis (1859-1926), pastor of the Second Baptist Church of\n Richmond, to head the corporation and R. Louis Brown as vice\n president. The other founding officers and board members were\n W.G. Carter, Charles Johnson, Jr., W.A. Payne, John E. Taylor,\n and W.R. Coots.","While the founding members had the insight to realize the\n possibilities of an insurance society for African-Americans,\n the business initially lacked the spectacular features of the\n highly popular fraternal orders and morally established church\n societies of the 1890's and early 20th century. After nearly a\n decade of slow growth and moderate profits, company leaders\n acted to reverse the stagnant business trends and modest cash\n influx. They replaced the company president Armistead\n Washington, a local fraternal order organizer and sympathizer,\n with prominent Hanover County banker and businessman, A.D.\n Price. Under Price's leadership the Southern Aid and Insurance\n Company became the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., a\n move intended to exploit the popularity of fraternal orders\n and beneficial societies. With a new president and a new name,\n the company eventually prospered and expanded with infant\n branches in other Virginia towns. By 1937 the company employed\n more than 300 black men and women in branches in Virginia and\n Washington, D.C.","Despite its prominence as the first African-American\n insurance company, few have written about the Southern Aid\n Society of Virginia or its members after 1940. While some\n studies highlight the business' place in local Richmond\n history or its position as an entrepreneurial endeavor during\n the period of the beneficial societies and fraternal orders,\n no comprehensive study of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia\n exists. Little also was written in the late 1980's when the\n company's building at 214 E. Clay Street (and presumably the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia itself) was bought by the\n Atlanta Life Insurance Company.","The Southern Aid Society of Virginia business records\n contain 67 boxes of material ranging from 1893-1977 and arranged\n in five series. Series I consists of executive committee\n meeting minutes; Series II is employee records; Series III is\n financial account records and correspondence; Series IV\n contains policyholder records and correspondence; and Series V\n consists of memorabilia and miscellaneous material. The types\n of material found in those five series are minutes, ledgers,\n correspondence, claims, policies, invoices, receipts,\n applications, manuals, lists, registers, annual statements,\n and memorabilia.","This material provides the researcher with an invaluable\n resource regarding the ongoing corporate affairs of the\n premier African-American insurance company in the United\n States. Executive committee meeting minutes ledgers in Series\n I document the monthly decision-making process of the company\n think-tank for much of the period between 1910-1934 and for a\n smaller period between 1954-1958. In Series III annual\n statements spanning from 1906-1929 record the monetary growth\n of the company from the time of the business' name change to\n the Great Depression. Also in Series III company financial\n records help fill the years missed by the annual statements by\n detailing the financial dynamics of this prosperous insurance\n business. Series III also includes correspondence and invoices\n that trace some of the stock and bond investments made by the\n company. Also a few folders of correspondence and receipts in\n Series III concerns the company's decision to invest their\n modest profits in the redesign and renovation of their\n permanent business location at 214 East Clay Street.","Aside from the records' obvious worth as an economic\n research resource, the collection also helps to document the\n social effect of the Southern Aid Society on the black\n community in Richmond's Jackson Ward district and in other\n Virginia and Mid-Atlantic black communities. Employee and\n employment records and ledgers in Series II provide evidence\n of company hiring practices, the demographic make-up of the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia staff, and evidence of\n agents' work ethics, earning power, spending habits, and even\n religious affiliation. Policyholder records and correspondence\n in Series IV contain social characteristics and demographic\n data for the larger black community from 1894-1914. The entire\n collection of ledgers and other papers authenticates not only\n the rise of entrepreneurial insurance enterprise in Virginia\n but the development of a financially self-supporting black\n community first in Richmond and then throughout the\n Mid-Atlantic United States.","Executive committee meeting minutes are ledgers (6\n volumes) dated 1910-1917, 1922-27, 1931-1934, and\n 1954-1958.","Employee records (6 volumes and .90 cu.ft.) consist\n of agents' debit and credit accounts ledgers (3\n volumes), 1927-1969; employees' training and fieldwork\n manuals (1 volume), n.d.; applications for employment\n and other employment documents arranged alphabetically\n (.675 cu. ft.), n.d.; employee lists (.1 cu.ft.), n.d.;\n employee payroll and earnings statements (1 volume),\n 1965; weekly letters to employees from company\n management (.025 cu.ft.), 1945; agents' resolutions and\n appeals to management (.1 cu.ft.), 1913; and an agent's\n salary and commissions ledger (1 volume), 1946.\n Employment applications include questionnaires inviting\n responses concerning marital status, religious\n affiliation, age, disability, residence, and academic\n history.","Financial account ledgers (85 volumes and 1.35\n cu.ft.) consist of financial statements of rental agents\n (1 volume), n.d.; executive's correspondence concerning\n accounts and audits (.35 cu. ft.); Board of Directors'\n minutes concerning stock value (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n income tax and earnings statements (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n company cash account ledgers (30 volumes), 1914-1916,\n 1918-1919, 1923-1945, 1947-1960; check registers (3\n volumes), 1932-1943; annual statements (24 volumes),\n 1906-1929; monthly rental property account ledger (1\n volume), 1918; correspondence, invoices and receipts\n concerning investments and Club 533, Inc. (.90 cu.ft.),\n 1968-1980; miscellaneous financial account ledgers (2\n volumes), 1940-1950, 1953-1973; Virginia Beneficial Life\n Insurance Company (Norfolk, Va.) financial account\n ledger (1 volume), 1916-1917; policy account number\n ledgers (22 volumes), 1894-1914; and a policy account\n number ledger (1 volume) for the African-American Aid\n and Endowment Order of Virginia, n.d. Policyholder\n account ledgers are arranged by policy number and\n include policyholder's name, age, benefits, premium,\n beneficiary, agent's name, and year. Some ledgers also\n list county or Southern Aid Society of Virginia agent's\n branch location. Branches were found in Alexandria,\n Bristol, Charlottesville, Danville, Farmville,\n Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk,\n Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Saluda,\n Suffolk, Winchester, Virginia; and Washington, D.C.","Company cash account ledgers includes chronological\n lists of expenditures for checks, claims,\n telecommunications, salaries, commissions, advertising,\n real estate expenses, medical fees, traveling expenses,\n sundries, and postage. Also contains dated entries for\n company deposits stemming from premium collections,\n application fees, assessments, mortgages and bonds,\n loans, rents, employee deposits, and sundries.","This series contains individual homeowners' policies\n and claims together with correspondence between agents\n and policyholders (.45 cu.ft.), 1950-1980. Also contains\n indices to agents' correspondence with policyholders\n ledgers (3 volumes), 1938-1939, 1950-1951,\n 1957-1963.","This series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia\n including blank forms, Southern Aid Society calendars,\n envelopes, notices, and company licensure forms along\n with some correspondence with other African-American\n businesses.","There are no restrictions.","Business Records\n Collection, Acc. 36805","Southern Aid Society of Virginia","Second Baptist Church of Richmond\n (Va.)","Southern Aid and Insurance Company of Virginia\n (Richmond, Va.)"],"unitid_tesim":["36805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"geogname_ssm":["Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century."],"geogname_ssim":["Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century."],"creator_ssm":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"creator_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"creators_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"places_ssim":["Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Atlanta Life Insurance, 216 East Clay Street,\n Richmond, Virginia 23219 on 13 September 1999."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Insurance agents--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance agents--Virginia--20th\n century.","Insurance claims--Virginia- -20th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia--Richmond--19th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia-- Richmond--20th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia-- 20th\n century.","Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Insurance agents--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance agents--Virginia--20th\n century.","Insurance claims--Virginia- -20th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia--Richmond--19th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia-- Richmond--20th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia-- 20th\n century.","Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["65 cubic feet (67 boxes)"],"genreform_ssim":["Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems containing Social Security Numbers (all folders in\n Box 11 and Folders 1-3 in Box 12) will not be served.\n Instead, redacted photocopies will be served.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Items containing Social Security Numbers (all folders in\n Box 11 and Folders 1-3 in Box 12) will not be served.\n Instead, redacted photocopies will be served."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following series: I: Executive Committee\n Meeting Minutes. II. Employee Records. III. Financial and\n Investment Account Records and Correspondence. IV.\n Policyholder Records and Correspondence. V. Memorabilia\n Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organized into the following series: I: Executive Committee\n Meeting Minutes. II. Employee Records. III. Financial and\n Investment Account Records and Correspondence. IV.\n Policyholder Records and Correspondence. V. Memorabilia\n Miscellaneous."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eIn early 1893, a handful of men in Richmond, Virginia\n organized the Southern Aid and Insurance Company in an effort\n both to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection\n to African-Americans and to promote jobs for unemployed black\n youth. Chartered on February 25, 1893, Southern Aid and\n Insurance was the United States' first black owned and\n operated insurance company. The company founders chose Z.D.\n Lewis (1859-1926), pastor of the Second Baptist Church of\n Richmond, to head the corporation and R. Louis Brown as vice\n president. The other founding officers and board members were\n W.G. Carter, Charles Johnson, Jr., W.A. Payne, John E. Taylor,\n and W.R. Coots.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile the founding members had the insight to realize the\n possibilities of an insurance society for African-Americans,\n the business initially lacked the spectacular features of the\n highly popular fraternal orders and morally established church\n societies of the 1890's and early 20th century. After nearly a\n decade of slow growth and moderate profits, company leaders\n acted to reverse the stagnant business trends and modest cash\n influx. They replaced the company president Armistead\n Washington, a local fraternal order organizer and sympathizer,\n with prominent Hanover County banker and businessman, A.D.\n Price. Under Price's leadership the Southern Aid and Insurance\n Company became the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., a\n move intended to exploit the popularity of fraternal orders\n and beneficial societies. With a new president and a new name,\n the company eventually prospered and expanded with infant\n branches in other Virginia towns. By 1937 the company employed\n more than 300 black men and women in branches in Virginia and\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDespite its prominence as the first African-American\n insurance company, few have written about the Southern Aid\n Society of Virginia or its members after 1940. While some\n studies highlight the business' place in local Richmond\n history or its position as an entrepreneurial endeavor during\n the period of the beneficial societies and fraternal orders,\n no comprehensive study of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia\n exists. Little also was written in the late 1980's when the\n company's building at 214 E. Clay Street (and presumably the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia itself) was bought by the\n Atlanta Life Insurance Company.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["In early 1893, a handful of men in Richmond, Virginia\n organized the Southern Aid and Insurance Company in an effort\n both to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection\n to African-Americans and to promote jobs for unemployed black\n youth. Chartered on February 25, 1893, Southern Aid and\n Insurance was the United States' first black owned and\n operated insurance company. The company founders chose Z.D.\n Lewis (1859-1926), pastor of the Second Baptist Church of\n Richmond, to head the corporation and R. Louis Brown as vice\n president. The other founding officers and board members were\n W.G. Carter, Charles Johnson, Jr., W.A. Payne, John E. Taylor,\n and W.R. Coots.","While the founding members had the insight to realize the\n possibilities of an insurance society for African-Americans,\n the business initially lacked the spectacular features of the\n highly popular fraternal orders and morally established church\n societies of the 1890's and early 20th century. After nearly a\n decade of slow growth and moderate profits, company leaders\n acted to reverse the stagnant business trends and modest cash\n influx. They replaced the company president Armistead\n Washington, a local fraternal order organizer and sympathizer,\n with prominent Hanover County banker and businessman, A.D.\n Price. Under Price's leadership the Southern Aid and Insurance\n Company became the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., a\n move intended to exploit the popularity of fraternal orders\n and beneficial societies. With a new president and a new name,\n the company eventually prospered and expanded with infant\n branches in other Virginia towns. By 1937 the company employed\n more than 300 black men and women in branches in Virginia and\n Washington, D.C.","Despite its prominence as the first African-American\n insurance company, few have written about the Southern Aid\n Society of Virginia or its members after 1940. While some\n studies highlight the business' place in local Richmond\n history or its position as an entrepreneurial endeavor during\n the period of the beneficial societies and fraternal orders,\n no comprehensive study of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia\n exists. Little also was written in the late 1980's when the\n company's building at 214 E. Clay Street (and presumably the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia itself) was bought by the\n Atlanta Life Insurance Company."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSouthern Aid Society of Virginia. Records, 1893-1977.\n Accession 36805. Business Records Collection, The Library\n of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia. Records, 1893-1977.\n Accession 36805. Business Records Collection, The Library\n of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Southern Aid Society of Virginia business records\n contain 67 boxes of material ranging from 1893-1977 and arranged\n in five series. Series I consists of executive committee\n meeting minutes; Series II is employee records; Series III is\n financial account records and correspondence; Series IV\n contains policyholder records and correspondence; and Series V\n consists of memorabilia and miscellaneous material. The types\n of material found in those five series are minutes, ledgers,\n correspondence, claims, policies, invoices, receipts,\n applications, manuals, lists, registers, annual statements,\n and memorabilia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material provides the researcher with an invaluable\n resource regarding the ongoing corporate affairs of the\n premier African-American insurance company in the United\n States. Executive committee meeting minutes ledgers in Series\n I document the monthly decision-making process of the company\n think-tank for much of the period between 1910-1934 and for a\n smaller period between 1954-1958. In Series III annual\n statements spanning from 1906-1929 record the monetary growth\n of the company from the time of the business' name change to\n the Great Depression. Also in Series III company financial\n records help fill the years missed by the annual statements by\n detailing the financial dynamics of this prosperous insurance\n business. Series III also includes correspondence and invoices\n that trace some of the stock and bond investments made by the\n company. Also a few folders of correspondence and receipts in\n Series III concerns the company's decision to invest their\n modest profits in the redesign and renovation of their\n permanent business location at 214 East Clay Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAside from the records' obvious worth as an economic\n research resource, the collection also helps to document the\n social effect of the Southern Aid Society on the black\n community in Richmond's Jackson Ward district and in other\n Virginia and Mid-Atlantic black communities. Employee and\n employment records and ledgers in Series II provide evidence\n of company hiring practices, the demographic make-up of the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia staff, and evidence of\n agents' work ethics, earning power, spending habits, and even\n religious affiliation. Policyholder records and correspondence\n in Series IV contain social characteristics and demographic\n data for the larger black community from 1894-1914. The entire\n collection of ledgers and other papers authenticates not only\n the rise of entrepreneurial insurance enterprise in Virginia\n but the development of a financially self-supporting black\n community first in Richmond and then throughout the\n Mid-Atlantic United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive committee meeting minutes are ledgers (6\n volumes) dated 1910-1917, 1922-27, 1931-1934, and\n 1954-1958.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee records (6 volumes and .90 cu.ft.) consist\n of agents' debit and credit accounts ledgers (3\n volumes), 1927-1969; employees' training and fieldwork\n manuals (1 volume), n.d.; applications for employment\n and other employment documents arranged alphabetically\n (.675 cu. ft.), n.d.; employee lists (.1 cu.ft.), n.d.;\n employee payroll and earnings statements (1 volume),\n 1965; weekly letters to employees from company\n management (.025 cu.ft.), 1945; agents' resolutions and\n appeals to management (.1 cu.ft.), 1913; and an agent's\n salary and commissions ledger (1 volume), 1946.\n Employment applications include questionnaires inviting\n responses concerning marital status, religious\n affiliation, age, disability, residence, and academic\n history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial account ledgers (85 volumes and 1.35\n cu.ft.) consist of financial statements of rental agents\n (1 volume), n.d.; executive's correspondence concerning\n accounts and audits (.35 cu. ft.); Board of Directors'\n minutes concerning stock value (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n income tax and earnings statements (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n company cash account ledgers (30 volumes), 1914-1916,\n 1918-1919, 1923-1945, 1947-1960; check registers (3\n volumes), 1932-1943; annual statements (24 volumes),\n 1906-1929; monthly rental property account ledger (1\n volume), 1918; correspondence, invoices and receipts\n concerning investments and Club 533, Inc. (.90 cu.ft.),\n 1968-1980; miscellaneous financial account ledgers (2\n volumes), 1940-1950, 1953-1973; Virginia Beneficial Life\n Insurance Company (Norfolk, Va.) financial account\n ledger (1 volume), 1916-1917; policy account number\n ledgers (22 volumes), 1894-1914; and a policy account\n number ledger (1 volume) for the African-American Aid\n and Endowment Order of Virginia, n.d. Policyholder\n account ledgers are arranged by policy number and\n include policyholder's name, age, benefits, premium,\n beneficiary, agent's name, and year. Some ledgers also\n list county or Southern Aid Society of Virginia agent's\n branch location. Branches were found in Alexandria,\n Bristol, Charlottesville, Danville, Farmville,\n Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk,\n Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Saluda,\n Suffolk, Winchester, Virginia; and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany cash account ledgers includes chronological\n lists of expenditures for checks, claims,\n telecommunications, salaries, commissions, advertising,\n real estate expenses, medical fees, traveling expenses,\n sundries, and postage. Also contains dated entries for\n company deposits stemming from premium collections,\n application fees, assessments, mortgages and bonds,\n loans, rents, employee deposits, and sundries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains individual homeowners' policies\n and claims together with correspondence between agents\n and policyholders (.45 cu.ft.), 1950-1980. Also contains\n indices to agents' correspondence with policyholders\n ledgers (3 volumes), 1938-1939, 1950-1951,\n 1957-1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia\n including blank forms, Southern Aid Society calendars,\n envelopes, notices, and company licensure forms along\n with some correspondence with other African-American\n businesses.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Southern Aid Society of Virginia business records\n contain 67 boxes of material ranging from 1893-1977 and arranged\n in five series. Series I consists of executive committee\n meeting minutes; Series II is employee records; Series III is\n financial account records and correspondence; Series IV\n contains policyholder records and correspondence; and Series V\n consists of memorabilia and miscellaneous material. The types\n of material found in those five series are minutes, ledgers,\n correspondence, claims, policies, invoices, receipts,\n applications, manuals, lists, registers, annual statements,\n and memorabilia.","This material provides the researcher with an invaluable\n resource regarding the ongoing corporate affairs of the\n premier African-American insurance company in the United\n States. Executive committee meeting minutes ledgers in Series\n I document the monthly decision-making process of the company\n think-tank for much of the period between 1910-1934 and for a\n smaller period between 1954-1958. In Series III annual\n statements spanning from 1906-1929 record the monetary growth\n of the company from the time of the business' name change to\n the Great Depression. Also in Series III company financial\n records help fill the years missed by the annual statements by\n detailing the financial dynamics of this prosperous insurance\n business. Series III also includes correspondence and invoices\n that trace some of the stock and bond investments made by the\n company. Also a few folders of correspondence and receipts in\n Series III concerns the company's decision to invest their\n modest profits in the redesign and renovation of their\n permanent business location at 214 East Clay Street.","Aside from the records' obvious worth as an economic\n research resource, the collection also helps to document the\n social effect of the Southern Aid Society on the black\n community in Richmond's Jackson Ward district and in other\n Virginia and Mid-Atlantic black communities. Employee and\n employment records and ledgers in Series II provide evidence\n of company hiring practices, the demographic make-up of the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia staff, and evidence of\n agents' work ethics, earning power, spending habits, and even\n religious affiliation. Policyholder records and correspondence\n in Series IV contain social characteristics and demographic\n data for the larger black community from 1894-1914. The entire\n collection of ledgers and other papers authenticates not only\n the rise of entrepreneurial insurance enterprise in Virginia\n but the development of a financially self-supporting black\n community first in Richmond and then throughout the\n Mid-Atlantic United States.","Executive committee meeting minutes are ledgers (6\n volumes) dated 1910-1917, 1922-27, 1931-1934, and\n 1954-1958.","Employee records (6 volumes and .90 cu.ft.) consist\n of agents' debit and credit accounts ledgers (3\n volumes), 1927-1969; employees' training and fieldwork\n manuals (1 volume), n.d.; applications for employment\n and other employment documents arranged alphabetically\n (.675 cu. ft.), n.d.; employee lists (.1 cu.ft.), n.d.;\n employee payroll and earnings statements (1 volume),\n 1965; weekly letters to employees from company\n management (.025 cu.ft.), 1945; agents' resolutions and\n appeals to management (.1 cu.ft.), 1913; and an agent's\n salary and commissions ledger (1 volume), 1946.\n Employment applications include questionnaires inviting\n responses concerning marital status, religious\n affiliation, age, disability, residence, and academic\n history.","Financial account ledgers (85 volumes and 1.35\n cu.ft.) consist of financial statements of rental agents\n (1 volume), n.d.; executive's correspondence concerning\n accounts and audits (.35 cu. ft.); Board of Directors'\n minutes concerning stock value (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n income tax and earnings statements (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n company cash account ledgers (30 volumes), 1914-1916,\n 1918-1919, 1923-1945, 1947-1960; check registers (3\n volumes), 1932-1943; annual statements (24 volumes),\n 1906-1929; monthly rental property account ledger (1\n volume), 1918; correspondence, invoices and receipts\n concerning investments and Club 533, Inc. (.90 cu.ft.),\n 1968-1980; miscellaneous financial account ledgers (2\n volumes), 1940-1950, 1953-1973; Virginia Beneficial Life\n Insurance Company (Norfolk, Va.) financial account\n ledger (1 volume), 1916-1917; policy account number\n ledgers (22 volumes), 1894-1914; and a policy account\n number ledger (1 volume) for the African-American Aid\n and Endowment Order of Virginia, n.d. Policyholder\n account ledgers are arranged by policy number and\n include policyholder's name, age, benefits, premium,\n beneficiary, agent's name, and year. Some ledgers also\n list county or Southern Aid Society of Virginia agent's\n branch location. Branches were found in Alexandria,\n Bristol, Charlottesville, Danville, Farmville,\n Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk,\n Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Saluda,\n Suffolk, Winchester, Virginia; and Washington, D.C.","Company cash account ledgers includes chronological\n lists of expenditures for checks, claims,\n telecommunications, salaries, commissions, advertising,\n real estate expenses, medical fees, traveling expenses,\n sundries, and postage. Also contains dated entries for\n company deposits stemming from premium collections,\n application fees, assessments, mortgages and bonds,\n loans, rents, employee deposits, and sundries.","This series contains individual homeowners' policies\n and claims together with correspondence between agents\n and policyholders (.45 cu.ft.), 1950-1980. Also contains\n indices to agents' correspondence with policyholders\n ledgers (3 volumes), 1938-1939, 1950-1951,\n 1957-1963.","This series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia\n including blank forms, Southern Aid Society calendars,\n envelopes, notices, and company licensure forms along\n with some correspondence with other African-American\n businesses."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003eBusiness Records\n Collection, Acc. 36805\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["Business Records\n Collection, Acc. 36805"],"names_coll_ssim":["Second Baptist Church of Richmond\n (Va.)","Southern Aid and Insurance Company of Virginia\n (Richmond, Va.)"],"names_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia","Second Baptist Church of Richmond\n (Va.)","Southern Aid and Insurance Company of Virginia\n (Richmond, Va.)"],"corpname_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia","Second Baptist Church of Richmond\n (Va.)","Southern Aid and Insurance Company of Virginia\n (Richmond, Va.)"],"total_component_count_is":125,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:00:08.922Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi00003","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00003","_root_":"vi_vi00003","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00003","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi00003.xml","title_ssm":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"title_tesim":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["36805"],"text":["36805","Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977","Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century.","Insurance agents--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance agents--Virginia--20th\n century.","Insurance claims--Virginia- -20th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia--Richmond--19th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia-- Richmond--20th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia-- 20th\n century.","Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)","65 cubic feet (67 boxes)","Items containing Social Security Numbers (all folders in\n Box 11 and Folders 1-3 in Box 12) will not be served.\n Instead, redacted photocopies will be served.","Organized into the following series: I: Executive Committee\n Meeting Minutes. II. Employee Records. III. Financial and\n Investment Account Records and Correspondence. IV.\n Policyholder Records and Correspondence. V. Memorabilia\n Miscellaneous.","In early 1893, a handful of men in Richmond, Virginia\n organized the Southern Aid and Insurance Company in an effort\n both to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection\n to African-Americans and to promote jobs for unemployed black\n youth. Chartered on February 25, 1893, Southern Aid and\n Insurance was the United States' first black owned and\n operated insurance company. The company founders chose Z.D.\n Lewis (1859-1926), pastor of the Second Baptist Church of\n Richmond, to head the corporation and R. Louis Brown as vice\n president. The other founding officers and board members were\n W.G. Carter, Charles Johnson, Jr., W.A. Payne, John E. Taylor,\n and W.R. Coots.","While the founding members had the insight to realize the\n possibilities of an insurance society for African-Americans,\n the business initially lacked the spectacular features of the\n highly popular fraternal orders and morally established church\n societies of the 1890's and early 20th century. After nearly a\n decade of slow growth and moderate profits, company leaders\n acted to reverse the stagnant business trends and modest cash\n influx. They replaced the company president Armistead\n Washington, a local fraternal order organizer and sympathizer,\n with prominent Hanover County banker and businessman, A.D.\n Price. Under Price's leadership the Southern Aid and Insurance\n Company became the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., a\n move intended to exploit the popularity of fraternal orders\n and beneficial societies. With a new president and a new name,\n the company eventually prospered and expanded with infant\n branches in other Virginia towns. By 1937 the company employed\n more than 300 black men and women in branches in Virginia and\n Washington, D.C.","Despite its prominence as the first African-American\n insurance company, few have written about the Southern Aid\n Society of Virginia or its members after 1940. While some\n studies highlight the business' place in local Richmond\n history or its position as an entrepreneurial endeavor during\n the period of the beneficial societies and fraternal orders,\n no comprehensive study of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia\n exists. Little also was written in the late 1980's when the\n company's building at 214 E. Clay Street (and presumably the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia itself) was bought by the\n Atlanta Life Insurance Company.","The Southern Aid Society of Virginia business records\n contain 67 boxes of material ranging from 1893-1977 and arranged\n in five series. Series I consists of executive committee\n meeting minutes; Series II is employee records; Series III is\n financial account records and correspondence; Series IV\n contains policyholder records and correspondence; and Series V\n consists of memorabilia and miscellaneous material. The types\n of material found in those five series are minutes, ledgers,\n correspondence, claims, policies, invoices, receipts,\n applications, manuals, lists, registers, annual statements,\n and memorabilia.","This material provides the researcher with an invaluable\n resource regarding the ongoing corporate affairs of the\n premier African-American insurance company in the United\n States. Executive committee meeting minutes ledgers in Series\n I document the monthly decision-making process of the company\n think-tank for much of the period between 1910-1934 and for a\n smaller period between 1954-1958. In Series III annual\n statements spanning from 1906-1929 record the monetary growth\n of the company from the time of the business' name change to\n the Great Depression. Also in Series III company financial\n records help fill the years missed by the annual statements by\n detailing the financial dynamics of this prosperous insurance\n business. Series III also includes correspondence and invoices\n that trace some of the stock and bond investments made by the\n company. Also a few folders of correspondence and receipts in\n Series III concerns the company's decision to invest their\n modest profits in the redesign and renovation of their\n permanent business location at 214 East Clay Street.","Aside from the records' obvious worth as an economic\n research resource, the collection also helps to document the\n social effect of the Southern Aid Society on the black\n community in Richmond's Jackson Ward district and in other\n Virginia and Mid-Atlantic black communities. Employee and\n employment records and ledgers in Series II provide evidence\n of company hiring practices, the demographic make-up of the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia staff, and evidence of\n agents' work ethics, earning power, spending habits, and even\n religious affiliation. Policyholder records and correspondence\n in Series IV contain social characteristics and demographic\n data for the larger black community from 1894-1914. The entire\n collection of ledgers and other papers authenticates not only\n the rise of entrepreneurial insurance enterprise in Virginia\n but the development of a financially self-supporting black\n community first in Richmond and then throughout the\n Mid-Atlantic United States.","Executive committee meeting minutes are ledgers (6\n volumes) dated 1910-1917, 1922-27, 1931-1934, and\n 1954-1958.","Employee records (6 volumes and .90 cu.ft.) consist\n of agents' debit and credit accounts ledgers (3\n volumes), 1927-1969; employees' training and fieldwork\n manuals (1 volume), n.d.; applications for employment\n and other employment documents arranged alphabetically\n (.675 cu. ft.), n.d.; employee lists (.1 cu.ft.), n.d.;\n employee payroll and earnings statements (1 volume),\n 1965; weekly letters to employees from company\n management (.025 cu.ft.), 1945; agents' resolutions and\n appeals to management (.1 cu.ft.), 1913; and an agent's\n salary and commissions ledger (1 volume), 1946.\n Employment applications include questionnaires inviting\n responses concerning marital status, religious\n affiliation, age, disability, residence, and academic\n history.","Financial account ledgers (85 volumes and 1.35\n cu.ft.) consist of financial statements of rental agents\n (1 volume), n.d.; executive's correspondence concerning\n accounts and audits (.35 cu. ft.); Board of Directors'\n minutes concerning stock value (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n income tax and earnings statements (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n company cash account ledgers (30 volumes), 1914-1916,\n 1918-1919, 1923-1945, 1947-1960; check registers (3\n volumes), 1932-1943; annual statements (24 volumes),\n 1906-1929; monthly rental property account ledger (1\n volume), 1918; correspondence, invoices and receipts\n concerning investments and Club 533, Inc. (.90 cu.ft.),\n 1968-1980; miscellaneous financial account ledgers (2\n volumes), 1940-1950, 1953-1973; Virginia Beneficial Life\n Insurance Company (Norfolk, Va.) financial account\n ledger (1 volume), 1916-1917; policy account number\n ledgers (22 volumes), 1894-1914; and a policy account\n number ledger (1 volume) for the African-American Aid\n and Endowment Order of Virginia, n.d. Policyholder\n account ledgers are arranged by policy number and\n include policyholder's name, age, benefits, premium,\n beneficiary, agent's name, and year. Some ledgers also\n list county or Southern Aid Society of Virginia agent's\n branch location. Branches were found in Alexandria,\n Bristol, Charlottesville, Danville, Farmville,\n Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk,\n Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Saluda,\n Suffolk, Winchester, Virginia; and Washington, D.C.","Company cash account ledgers includes chronological\n lists of expenditures for checks, claims,\n telecommunications, salaries, commissions, advertising,\n real estate expenses, medical fees, traveling expenses,\n sundries, and postage. Also contains dated entries for\n company deposits stemming from premium collections,\n application fees, assessments, mortgages and bonds,\n loans, rents, employee deposits, and sundries.","This series contains individual homeowners' policies\n and claims together with correspondence between agents\n and policyholders (.45 cu.ft.), 1950-1980. Also contains\n indices to agents' correspondence with policyholders\n ledgers (3 volumes), 1938-1939, 1950-1951,\n 1957-1963.","This series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia\n including blank forms, Southern Aid Society calendars,\n envelopes, notices, and company licensure forms along\n with some correspondence with other African-American\n businesses.","There are no restrictions.","Business Records\n Collection, Acc. 36805","Southern Aid Society of Virginia","Second Baptist Church of Richmond\n (Va.)","Southern Aid and Insurance Company of Virginia\n (Richmond, Va.)"],"unitid_tesim":["36805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, \n \n 1893-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"geogname_ssm":["Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century."],"geogname_ssim":["Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century."],"creator_ssm":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"creator_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"creators_ssim":["Southern Aid Society of Virginia"],"places_ssim":["Richmond (Va.)--History--19th\n century.","Richmond (Va.)--History--20th\n century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Atlanta Life Insurance, 216 East Clay Street,\n Richmond, Virginia 23219 on 13 September 1999."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Insurance agents--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance agents--Virginia--20th\n century.","Insurance claims--Virginia- -20th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia--Richmond--19th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia-- Richmond--20th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia-- 20th\n century.","Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Insurance agents--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance agents--Virginia--20th\n century.","Insurance claims--Virginia- -20th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia--Richmond--19th\n century.","Insurance companies--Virginia-- Richmond--20th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia--19th\n century.","Insurance policies--Virginia-- 20th\n century.","Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["65 cubic feet (67 boxes)"],"genreform_ssim":["Annual reports.","Business records--\n Virginia.","Corporate minutes.","Employees' manuals.","Insurance claims.","Insurance policies.","Insurance records.","Ledgers.","Letters\n (correspondence)"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems containing Social Security Numbers (all folders in\n Box 11 and Folders 1-3 in Box 12) will not be served.\n Instead, redacted photocopies will be served.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Items containing Social Security Numbers (all folders in\n Box 11 and Folders 1-3 in Box 12) will not be served.\n Instead, redacted photocopies will be served."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following series: I: Executive Committee\n Meeting Minutes. II. Employee Records. III. Financial and\n Investment Account Records and Correspondence. IV.\n Policyholder Records and Correspondence. V. Memorabilia\n Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organized into the following series: I: Executive Committee\n Meeting Minutes. II. Employee Records. III. Financial and\n Investment Account Records and Correspondence. IV.\n Policyholder Records and Correspondence. V. Memorabilia\n Miscellaneous."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eIn early 1893, a handful of men in Richmond, Virginia\n organized the Southern Aid and Insurance Company in an effort\n both to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection\n to African-Americans and to promote jobs for unemployed black\n youth. Chartered on February 25, 1893, Southern Aid and\n Insurance was the United States' first black owned and\n operated insurance company. The company founders chose Z.D.\n Lewis (1859-1926), pastor of the Second Baptist Church of\n Richmond, to head the corporation and R. Louis Brown as vice\n president. The other founding officers and board members were\n W.G. Carter, Charles Johnson, Jr., W.A. Payne, John E. Taylor,\n and W.R. Coots.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile the founding members had the insight to realize the\n possibilities of an insurance society for African-Americans,\n the business initially lacked the spectacular features of the\n highly popular fraternal orders and morally established church\n societies of the 1890's and early 20th century. After nearly a\n decade of slow growth and moderate profits, company leaders\n acted to reverse the stagnant business trends and modest cash\n influx. They replaced the company president Armistead\n Washington, a local fraternal order organizer and sympathizer,\n with prominent Hanover County banker and businessman, A.D.\n Price. Under Price's leadership the Southern Aid and Insurance\n Company became the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., a\n move intended to exploit the popularity of fraternal orders\n and beneficial societies. With a new president and a new name,\n the company eventually prospered and expanded with infant\n branches in other Virginia towns. By 1937 the company employed\n more than 300 black men and women in branches in Virginia and\n Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDespite its prominence as the first African-American\n insurance company, few have written about the Southern Aid\n Society of Virginia or its members after 1940. While some\n studies highlight the business' place in local Richmond\n history or its position as an entrepreneurial endeavor during\n the period of the beneficial societies and fraternal orders,\n no comprehensive study of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia\n exists. Little also was written in the late 1980's when the\n company's building at 214 E. Clay Street (and presumably the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia itself) was bought by the\n Atlanta Life Insurance Company.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["In early 1893, a handful of men in Richmond, Virginia\n organized the Southern Aid and Insurance Company in an effort\n both to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection\n to African-Americans and to promote jobs for unemployed black\n youth. Chartered on February 25, 1893, Southern Aid and\n Insurance was the United States' first black owned and\n operated insurance company. The company founders chose Z.D.\n Lewis (1859-1926), pastor of the Second Baptist Church of\n Richmond, to head the corporation and R. Louis Brown as vice\n president. The other founding officers and board members were\n W.G. Carter, Charles Johnson, Jr., W.A. Payne, John E. Taylor,\n and W.R. Coots.","While the founding members had the insight to realize the\n possibilities of an insurance society for African-Americans,\n the business initially lacked the spectacular features of the\n highly popular fraternal orders and morally established church\n societies of the 1890's and early 20th century. After nearly a\n decade of slow growth and moderate profits, company leaders\n acted to reverse the stagnant business trends and modest cash\n influx. They replaced the company president Armistead\n Washington, a local fraternal order organizer and sympathizer,\n with prominent Hanover County banker and businessman, A.D.\n Price. Under Price's leadership the Southern Aid and Insurance\n Company became the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., a\n move intended to exploit the popularity of fraternal orders\n and beneficial societies. With a new president and a new name,\n the company eventually prospered and expanded with infant\n branches in other Virginia towns. By 1937 the company employed\n more than 300 black men and women in branches in Virginia and\n Washington, D.C.","Despite its prominence as the first African-American\n insurance company, few have written about the Southern Aid\n Society of Virginia or its members after 1940. While some\n studies highlight the business' place in local Richmond\n history or its position as an entrepreneurial endeavor during\n the period of the beneficial societies and fraternal orders,\n no comprehensive study of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia\n exists. Little also was written in the late 1980's when the\n company's building at 214 E. Clay Street (and presumably the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia itself) was bought by the\n Atlanta Life Insurance Company."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSouthern Aid Society of Virginia. Records, 1893-1977.\n Accession 36805. 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The types\n of material found in those five series are minutes, ledgers,\n correspondence, claims, policies, invoices, receipts,\n applications, manuals, lists, registers, annual statements,\n and memorabilia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material provides the researcher with an invaluable\n resource regarding the ongoing corporate affairs of the\n premier African-American insurance company in the United\n States. Executive committee meeting minutes ledgers in Series\n I document the monthly decision-making process of the company\n think-tank for much of the period between 1910-1934 and for a\n smaller period between 1954-1958. In Series III annual\n statements spanning from 1906-1929 record the monetary growth\n of the company from the time of the business' name change to\n the Great Depression. Also in Series III company financial\n records help fill the years missed by the annual statements by\n detailing the financial dynamics of this prosperous insurance\n business. Series III also includes correspondence and invoices\n that trace some of the stock and bond investments made by the\n company. Also a few folders of correspondence and receipts in\n Series III concerns the company's decision to invest their\n modest profits in the redesign and renovation of their\n permanent business location at 214 East Clay Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAside from the records' obvious worth as an economic\n research resource, the collection also helps to document the\n social effect of the Southern Aid Society on the black\n community in Richmond's Jackson Ward district and in other\n Virginia and Mid-Atlantic black communities. Employee and\n employment records and ledgers in Series II provide evidence\n of company hiring practices, the demographic make-up of the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia staff, and evidence of\n agents' work ethics, earning power, spending habits, and even\n religious affiliation. Policyholder records and correspondence\n in Series IV contain social characteristics and demographic\n data for the larger black community from 1894-1914. The entire\n collection of ledgers and other papers authenticates not only\n the rise of entrepreneurial insurance enterprise in Virginia\n but the development of a financially self-supporting black\n community first in Richmond and then throughout the\n Mid-Atlantic United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive committee meeting minutes are ledgers (6\n volumes) dated 1910-1917, 1922-27, 1931-1934, and\n 1954-1958.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee records (6 volumes and .90 cu.ft.) consist\n of agents' debit and credit accounts ledgers (3\n volumes), 1927-1969; employees' training and fieldwork\n manuals (1 volume), n.d.; applications for employment\n and other employment documents arranged alphabetically\n (.675 cu. ft.), n.d.; employee lists (.1 cu.ft.), n.d.;\n employee payroll and earnings statements (1 volume),\n 1965; weekly letters to employees from company\n management (.025 cu.ft.), 1945; agents' resolutions and\n appeals to management (.1 cu.ft.), 1913; and an agent's\n salary and commissions ledger (1 volume), 1946.\n Employment applications include questionnaires inviting\n responses concerning marital status, religious\n affiliation, age, disability, residence, and academic\n history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial account ledgers (85 volumes and 1.35\n cu.ft.) consist of financial statements of rental agents\n (1 volume), n.d.; executive's correspondence concerning\n accounts and audits (.35 cu. ft.); Board of Directors'\n minutes concerning stock value (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n income tax and earnings statements (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n company cash account ledgers (30 volumes), 1914-1916,\n 1918-1919, 1923-1945, 1947-1960; check registers (3\n volumes), 1932-1943; annual statements (24 volumes),\n 1906-1929; monthly rental property account ledger (1\n volume), 1918; correspondence, invoices and receipts\n concerning investments and Club 533, Inc. (.90 cu.ft.),\n 1968-1980; miscellaneous financial account ledgers (2\n volumes), 1940-1950, 1953-1973; Virginia Beneficial Life\n Insurance Company (Norfolk, Va.) financial account\n ledger (1 volume), 1916-1917; policy account number\n ledgers (22 volumes), 1894-1914; and a policy account\n number ledger (1 volume) for the African-American Aid\n and Endowment Order of Virginia, n.d. Policyholder\n account ledgers are arranged by policy number and\n include policyholder's name, age, benefits, premium,\n beneficiary, agent's name, and year. Some ledgers also\n list county or Southern Aid Society of Virginia agent's\n branch location. Branches were found in Alexandria,\n Bristol, Charlottesville, Danville, Farmville,\n Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk,\n Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Saluda,\n Suffolk, Winchester, Virginia; and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompany cash account ledgers includes chronological\n lists of expenditures for checks, claims,\n telecommunications, salaries, commissions, advertising,\n real estate expenses, medical fees, traveling expenses,\n sundries, and postage. Also contains dated entries for\n company deposits stemming from premium collections,\n application fees, assessments, mortgages and bonds,\n loans, rents, employee deposits, and sundries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains individual homeowners' policies\n and claims together with correspondence between agents\n and policyholders (.45 cu.ft.), 1950-1980. Also contains\n indices to agents' correspondence with policyholders\n ledgers (3 volumes), 1938-1939, 1950-1951,\n 1957-1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia\n including blank forms, Southern Aid Society calendars,\n envelopes, notices, and company licensure forms along\n with some correspondence with other African-American\n businesses.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Southern Aid Society of Virginia business records\n contain 67 boxes of material ranging from 1893-1977 and arranged\n in five series. Series I consists of executive committee\n meeting minutes; Series II is employee records; Series III is\n financial account records and correspondence; Series IV\n contains policyholder records and correspondence; and Series V\n consists of memorabilia and miscellaneous material. The types\n of material found in those five series are minutes, ledgers,\n correspondence, claims, policies, invoices, receipts,\n applications, manuals, lists, registers, annual statements,\n and memorabilia.","This material provides the researcher with an invaluable\n resource regarding the ongoing corporate affairs of the\n premier African-American insurance company in the United\n States. Executive committee meeting minutes ledgers in Series\n I document the monthly decision-making process of the company\n think-tank for much of the period between 1910-1934 and for a\n smaller period between 1954-1958. In Series III annual\n statements spanning from 1906-1929 record the monetary growth\n of the company from the time of the business' name change to\n the Great Depression. Also in Series III company financial\n records help fill the years missed by the annual statements by\n detailing the financial dynamics of this prosperous insurance\n business. Series III also includes correspondence and invoices\n that trace some of the stock and bond investments made by the\n company. Also a few folders of correspondence and receipts in\n Series III concerns the company's decision to invest their\n modest profits in the redesign and renovation of their\n permanent business location at 214 East Clay Street.","Aside from the records' obvious worth as an economic\n research resource, the collection also helps to document the\n social effect of the Southern Aid Society on the black\n community in Richmond's Jackson Ward district and in other\n Virginia and Mid-Atlantic black communities. Employee and\n employment records and ledgers in Series II provide evidence\n of company hiring practices, the demographic make-up of the\n Southern Aid Society of Virginia staff, and evidence of\n agents' work ethics, earning power, spending habits, and even\n religious affiliation. Policyholder records and correspondence\n in Series IV contain social characteristics and demographic\n data for the larger black community from 1894-1914. The entire\n collection of ledgers and other papers authenticates not only\n the rise of entrepreneurial insurance enterprise in Virginia\n but the development of a financially self-supporting black\n community first in Richmond and then throughout the\n Mid-Atlantic United States.","Executive committee meeting minutes are ledgers (6\n volumes) dated 1910-1917, 1922-27, 1931-1934, and\n 1954-1958.","Employee records (6 volumes and .90 cu.ft.) consist\n of agents' debit and credit accounts ledgers (3\n volumes), 1927-1969; employees' training and fieldwork\n manuals (1 volume), n.d.; applications for employment\n and other employment documents arranged alphabetically\n (.675 cu. ft.), n.d.; employee lists (.1 cu.ft.), n.d.;\n employee payroll and earnings statements (1 volume),\n 1965; weekly letters to employees from company\n management (.025 cu.ft.), 1945; agents' resolutions and\n appeals to management (.1 cu.ft.), 1913; and an agent's\n salary and commissions ledger (1 volume), 1946.\n Employment applications include questionnaires inviting\n responses concerning marital status, religious\n affiliation, age, disability, residence, and academic\n history.","Financial account ledgers (85 volumes and 1.35\n cu.ft.) consist of financial statements of rental agents\n (1 volume), n.d.; executive's correspondence concerning\n accounts and audits (.35 cu. ft.); Board of Directors'\n minutes concerning stock value (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n income tax and earnings statements (.05 cu.ft.), 1926;\n company cash account ledgers (30 volumes), 1914-1916,\n 1918-1919, 1923-1945, 1947-1960; check registers (3\n volumes), 1932-1943; annual statements (24 volumes),\n 1906-1929; monthly rental property account ledger (1\n volume), 1918; correspondence, invoices and receipts\n concerning investments and Club 533, Inc. (.90 cu.ft.),\n 1968-1980; miscellaneous financial account ledgers (2\n volumes), 1940-1950, 1953-1973; Virginia Beneficial Life\n Insurance Company (Norfolk, Va.) financial account\n ledger (1 volume), 1916-1917; policy account number\n ledgers (22 volumes), 1894-1914; and a policy account\n number ledger (1 volume) for the African-American Aid\n and Endowment Order of Virginia, n.d. Policyholder\n account ledgers are arranged by policy number and\n include policyholder's name, age, benefits, premium,\n beneficiary, agent's name, and year. Some ledgers also\n list county or Southern Aid Society of Virginia agent's\n branch location. 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