The Subsidiaries Records reflect the diversified business activities and investment interests Liberty Life Insurance Company and The Liberty Corporation engaged in over a forty-one-year period. As originally conceived, The Liberty Corporation was to have a triad configuration, with major subsidiaries in life insurance, broadcasting and investments playing mutually supporting roles. While the company moved rapidly and successfully forward with insurance and broadcasting the story was less than for investments. These records document The Liberty Corporation's management strategies. The physical extent of the documentation for the Subsidiaries Records ranges from one folder of information for First City Mortgage, Integon, Liberty Capital Advisors, and Triad Life to forty or more folders for Greater Arizona (forty-nine), Liberty Properties (fifty-five), and United Fidelity (fifty-two). Remaining subsidiaries yield from three to eleven folders of information with Bent Tree (three), La Marick Beauty System (eleven), Liberty Investors Benefit Insurance (ten), Liberty Investment Management (three), Snee Farm (six), Special Services (five), Surety Life (three) and Surety Investment (three). The informational content of these records is similar in that each contain some form of Annual or Financial Statements and Strategic or Long-Range Plans. Beyond that, Greater Arizona files include Board of Directors Meeting minutes, an Index to Financial Statements, and Summary Reports; La Marick files include Management Committee Meetings; Liberty Investment files include a Management Agreement and Investment Objectives; Liberty Properties files include Board of Directors Meeting minutes, a Capital Commitment Request, various committee meeting minutes and reports, schedules and studies; Snee Farm files include an Accountant's Report, Balance Sheets, and Income Tax information; Special Services files include an Air Travel Agreement, Inventories, and a Purchase Order for a Lear jet 25; Surety Life files include a Rate Book and Retirement Annuity and Pension Plans; and Surety Investment files include a Chart of Accounts. Liberty Investors Benefit Insurance consists of a Closing File, and United Fidelity's files pertain mostly to the purchase of land, architect's plans, and construction of its new home office.
