- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Staff of Atlanta Life Insurance Company
- Date of Original:
- 1925
- Subject:
- Banks and banking--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Life Insurance Company
Bank buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Bank employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Women bank employees--Georgia--Atlanta
African American bankers--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
Insurance companies--Georgia--Atlanta
Awnings
African American business enterprises--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The staff of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company Branch Office, ca. 1925. In 1922 the company had achieved legal reserve status, a position enjoyed by only four other Black insurance companies at that time.
Photograph of the staff of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company Branch Office, ca. 1925. Approximately thirty to forty African American men and women pose outside the front of the bank building. A large sign reading "Atlanta Life Insurance" is painted over the entrance. In 1922 the company had achieved legal reserve status, a position enjoyed by only four other black insurance companies at that time.
Established by Alonzo Herndon in 1905, Atlanta Life was one of three financial institutions, all headquartered in the Sweet Auburn district, that served the Black middle class in Atlanta before the civil rights movement. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/alonzo-herndon-1858-1927/m-4072/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of The Herndon Home
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/alonzo-herndon-1858-1927
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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