154 300
272
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Afro-American Industrial and
Benefit Association.
Benefit certificate,
11 x 17
1
⁄
8
inches.
Pensacola, Florida, 19 October 1908
[400/600]
The Afro-American Life Insurance Company
was an historic Jacksonville, Florida, business
founded in 1901 by Abraham Lincoln Lewis,
Rev. E. J. Gregg, Rev. J. Milton Waldron, and
others. It served as the leading financial center
of the African American community in
Jacksonville, which was reflected in the
Company’s name change in 1918 to the Afro-
American Industrial Insurance Company.
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273
274
273
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TROTTMAN, BERESFORD SYLVESTER BRIGGS.
Who’s Who in
Harlem. The 1949-1950 Biographical Register of a Group of Distinguished
Persons of New York’s Harlem.
Copiously illustrated. 79 pages. 8vo, original red cloth
stamped in gilt on the upper cover; tips lightly rubbed.
New York: Magazine and Periodical Printing, 1950
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION
,
RARE
,
OCLC LOCATING ONLY THREE INSTITUTIONAL COPIES
.
Short biogra-
phies for Harlem residents like George Schuyler and Adam Clayton Powell.