The Liberty Corporation Archives records, 1885-2000, bulk 1935-1986.

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The Liberty Corporation Archives records, 1885-2000, bulk 1935-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/655305445

The Liberty Corporation Archives includes advertising material, including posters and other graphic arts; annual reports; audiocassettes; audiotapes; blueprints; clippings; correspondence; employees' and training manuals; films; financial records such as account books, cash books, journals, and ledgers; maps, minutes; photographs; registers; speeches; stock certificates; tax returns; videotapes and other material documenting the activities of The Liberty Corporation and its subsidiaries; antecedent organizations such as the Liberty Life Insurance Company, the Independence Insurance Company, the Southeastern Life Insurance Company, the Southern Life Insurance Company, the Broadcasting Company of the South, Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, and their subsidiaries; and the business and civic activities of the Hipp family, particularly Boyd Calhoun, Francis M., Herman N, and W. Frank Hipp. This collection can be used by researchers interested in the broadcasting and insurance industries in South Carolina, the South, and the United States; reinsurance in South Carolina, the South, and the United States; corporate finance and investment, particularly real estate investment in South Carolina; the economic development of South Carolina and the role of the South Carolina State Development Board; economic conditions in the city of Greenville and Greenville County, South Carolina; the history of the city of Greenville and Greenville County; the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce; the Greenville Hospital System; the design of corporate headquarters/office buildings in Greenville; Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc.; the history of Furman University and Newberry College; and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina. Correspondents in the collection include Charles A. Batson, Walter J. Brown, James F. Byrnes, R. M. Cooper, Eugene Du Pont, Alester G. Furman, Harris P. Gravely, Ernest F. Hollings, the Liberty Scholars Program, Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc., Arthur Magill, Buck Mickel, Walter S. Montgomery, Robert D. Ritchie, Thomas L. Robinson, G. Richard Shafto, Robert S. Small, the South Carolina National Bank, Grady Southern, Henry L. Vogel, A. G. D. Wiles, and Boyd Calhoun Hipp, Francis M. Hipp, Grady H. Hipp, Herman N. Hipp, W. Hayne Hipp and other members of the Hipp family.

362.5 cubic ft. (including 10,126 folders in 681 document boxes).340 volumes 15 oversize volumes.10,200 photographs 298 oversize photographs.24 film reels.10 videotapes.2 audiocassettes.1 audiotape.70 pieces of graphic art.31 artifacts.36 oversize boxes.90 oversize folders.354 oversize items.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7945942

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina

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Wiles, A. G. D. (Americus George David), 1906-

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Magill, Arthur, 1907-1995

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Arthur Magill. From the description of Arthur Magill papers, 1976-1982, (bulk 1980). (Clemson University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38505517 ...

Independence Insurance Company

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Liberty Life Insurance Co.

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Broadcasting Company of the South

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Hipp, W. Hayne

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Mickel, Buck, 1925-

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Buck Mickel was born December 17, 1925 in Elberton, Georgia to James Clark and Reba Vaughn Mickel. Educated in public schools in Elberton and Atlanta, he graduated from Elberton High School in 1942. During World War II, he attended the U.S. Maritime Academy and served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Returning to Georgia, Mickel attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and received a B.S. degree in civil engineering in 1947. The following year Mickel began his long associ...

Du Pont, Eugene, 1914-1995

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Shafto, G. Richard

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Southern, W. Grady

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Hipp, B. Calhoun

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Ritchie, Robert D.

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Hipp, Francis M.

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation dates from July 1930, with the establishment of WIS radio in Columbia, South Carolina by George T. Barnes. Barnes and several investors formed South Carolina Broadcasting Company in November 1930 as the parent company of WIS. The enterprise was sold within a year to W. Frank Hipp and The Liberty Life Insurance Company. Hipp reorganized the affairs of WIS and its parent company was re-chartered in 1932 as The South Carolina Broadcasting Company and placed under the...

Hollings, Ernest F., 1922-....

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South Carolina National Bank

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Newberry college

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Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972

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James F. Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Elizabeth McSweeney and James Byrnes. On May 2, 1906, he married Maude Busch, who was born in Aiken, SC, on October 22, 1883. Byrnes was elected Court Solicitor of the Second District in 1908; U.S. Congressman from 1911-1925; U.S. Senator from 1931-1941. He was appointed to serve as a Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1941-1942. He also served as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1942; Director of the Office o...

Montgomery, Walter S.

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South Carolina State Development Board

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Hipps family.

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Vogel, Henry L.

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Southern Life Insurance Company

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Cooper, Robert Muldrow, 1887-1966

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Liberty Corporation

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In 1961, Robert Ritchie was named Keeper of the Records with the responsibility to create an archives and archival management program for Liberty Life Insurance Company. Ritchie and others, particularly J. K. Davis, began soliciting and collecting historical and archival documents from employees and departments of the company. Mr. Davis wrote one of the first comprehensive histories of Liberty Life. In the early 1970s, Paul Bridges took over as head of the archives, which was formally known as t...

Southeastern Life Insurance Company

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Batson, Charles A.

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Furman, Alester G.

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Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce (S.C.)

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Hipp, W. Frank

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Hipp, Herman N.

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Furman University

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Greenville Hospital System (Greenville, S.C.)

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Scales, Robert R.

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Brown, Walter J. (Walter Jay), 1872-1960

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Walter J. Brown was born on July 25, 1903 in Bowman, Georgia, son of J. J. (John Judson) (1865-1953) and Captora Ginn Brown (1866-1956). Attended the Georgia Institute of Technology High School, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He married Georgia Watson Lee (died 1935), a granddaughter of Thomas E. Watson, in 1925. Subsequently he married Ruth Taylor (1916-1990) in 1941 (divorced in 1966) and Ann Revell Chadeayne Tinda...

Small, Robert S. (Robert Scott), 1915-2007

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South Carolina textile company executive. The son of Robert Scott Small (1891-1931), a banker, Small has been an officer of the South Carolina National Bank, treasurer of the Ottaray Textiles and Haynesworth Mills, president of the Woodside Mills, and president and C.E.O. of the Dan River Mills. He is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank and other concerns. In addition, Small has served as a member of the advisory board of Furman University, which gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1964;...

Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc.

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Robinson, Thomas L.

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Hipp, Grady H.

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Gravely, Harris P.

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