Boyd Calhoun Hipp papers, 1949-1976.

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Boyd Calhoun Hipp papers, 1949-1976.

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The Boyd Calhoun Hipp Papers primarily document his business activities at The Liberty Corporation, its subsidiaries, and its predecessors. Hipp was mainly involved in Liberty's broadcast and investment operations so there is considerable about The Broadcasting Company of the South, Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, and its flagship station, WIS, including minutes of meetings of Board of Directors, financial statement, balance sheets, and investment committee files. The records of Liberty Life Insurance Company include file of the numerous committees upon which Hipp served. Of particular importance are those of the finance, investment and management committee. There are also records of the Investment Division that Hipp supervised. A small series of personal papers includes material related to Hipp's activities in several professional insurance organizations and biographical material. This collection can be used by researchers interested in the broadcasting and insurance industries of South Carolina, the South, and the United States and in corporate investment, particularly real estate investment in South Carolina. Correspondents include Francis M. Hipp, Robert R. Scales, Jr. and G. Richard Shafto.

13.25 cubic ft.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7969672

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Hipp, B. Calhoun

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Hipp, Herman N.

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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...

Hipp, Francis M.

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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...

Scales, Robert R.

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Shafto, G. Richard

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Broadcasting Company of the South

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Liberty Life Insurance Co.

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