Minute books

Content Description This collection consists of sporting good manufacturing companies' corporate records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Most materials relate to companies that were or would become corporate subsidiaries of the A.J. Spalding Company, a pioneering and influential American sporting goods company. The records consist primarily of meeting minutes (stockholders meetings or board of directors meetings) with a few other types of records included. Spalding subsidiaries represented...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable...