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Over the next eighty-four years, the company grew to become one of the largest Black insurance firms in the country. The company’s expansive archive of photographs, artwork, moving images, and recorded sound are a treasure trove illustrating the shifting demographics of Los Angeles, and the empowerment of a community. Our panel will examine the UCLA Library’s preservation of the collection from initial processing through digitization with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Haynes Foundation. Speakers will introduce and contextualize the collection, recount crowdsourcing efforts to enhance description, and preview content including radio spots and dramatizations, interviews and speeches, and amateur recordings. These sound recordings bring to life the collection’s many photographs, 35mm film strips, slides, and silent home movies, adding further context to the company’s vibrant history. The radio productions in particular, illuminate an important, albeit under-documented area of scholarship—African American radio history. Ultimately, the GSM records are testament to the pioneers who created the company, the community they empowered, and the history they preserved for over a century. Within the GSM records we listen closely to the words of poets, dreamers, and movement leaders, who as Angela Y. Davis reminds, “Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories...”\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eIn 1925, the Golden State Mutual (GSM) Life Insurance Company established itself in response to discriminatory practices that barred African Americans from insurance protection. Over the next eighty-four years, the company grew to become one of the largest Black insurance firms in the country. The company\u0026rsquo;s expansive archive of photographs, artwork, moving images, and recorded sound are a treasure trove illustrating the shifting demographics of Los Angeles, and the empowerment of a community. Our panel will examine the UCLA Library\u0026rsquo;s preservation of the collection from initial processing through digitization with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Haynes Foundation. Speakers will introduce and contextualize the collection, recount crowdsourcing efforts to enhance description, and preview content including radio spots and dramatizations, interviews and speeches, and amateur recordings. These sound recordings bring to life the collection\u0026rsquo;s many photographs, 35mm film strips, slides, and silent home movies, adding further context to the company\u0026rsquo;s vibrant history. The radio productions in particular, illuminate an important, albeit under-documented area of scholarship\u0026mdash;African American radio history. Ultimately, the GSM records are testament to the pioneers who created the company, the community they empowered, and the history they preserved for over a century. Within the GSM records we listen closely to the words of poets, dreamers, and movement leaders, who as Angela Y. Davis reminds, \u0026ldquo;Our histories never unfold in isolation. 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Can you hear me now? All right. Welcome, everyone, to the session on activism. I'm Sandy Rodriguez. I'm your session chair. I was going to read a quote from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but we are running late, so we're gonna go right into the presentations. We have two presentations. The first one, we have three presenters. Kelly buzzer's the UCLA Library Special Collection Archivists. In addition to UCLA, Beziers process collections for the African-American Firefighter Museum NAMEA, a Clayton Library Museum and the Yosemite National Park Service Archives, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Tom of Finland Foundation. In 2006, Besser co-founded the Miracle Bookmobile, a donation driven, community based project that redistributes free literature in Los Angeles and Oakland. Busser holds an M. I. S with an archival study Specialization from UCLA and Yassmin. DSM is the head of audio visual preservation at the UCLA Library, where she serves as technical lead as the library continues to develop to develop its program of preservation, digitization and access a moving image and sound holdings. Previously, she managed archive deliverables for new feature film releases at Paramount Pictures. Since 2015, as part of the UCLA Library's International Digital Ephemera Documenting Global Voices program. She has partnered with heritage institutions in Cuba and South Africa to provide digitization and preservation training. And Ciani Miller is the metadata and digital processing coordinator at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. From 2016 to 2017, she worked as a project coordinator for the Heinz Foundation, funded Golden State Mutual Audio Visual Digitization and Access Project, an initiative of UCLA Library Audio Visual preservation as project coordinator. Her responsibilities included the selection of materials for digital innovation, metadata creation and outreach. And they will be presenting. Freedom is a constant struggle. The Golden State Mutual Sound Recordings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=19.42,136.49"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Welcome. Thank you so much. If you're here to hear about insurance policy, you're in the right room to get things started. We thought we'd just show a little trailer that shows some of the digitized materials that have come out of this preservation project to get warm up everybody and wake us up for the last session. Your company was formed because Negroes were unable to get insurance from the other companies. Is that correct? Well, they were unable to get first class insurance protection at the time that our company was organized back in 1925. And they were also unable to get the other benefits created by the insurance premiums paid in two life companies. Is that still true? Or can a Negro know by any insurance that the condition has changed tremendously? And. And. So and. And remember. Taking. Just a moment while we switch over really quick. Thank you, Yasmeen. Thank you for making that beautiful trailer, Seany. My name's Kelly Bestor and I'm the library special collections archivist at UCLA Library Collections. Golden State Mutual equals light. I'm going to talk a little bit about the processing of this collection, the acquisition of the collection and how it's used by researchers. So it came to us in two parts. The first in 1986 and the second part in 2010. The collection spans from 1989 to 2009. And when my boss told me it would be processing a collection of life insurance records, a company that just dealt with insurance coverage in California, specifically Los Angeles. I had no idea it would be this amazing. There's been it's one of our cornerstone cornerstone collections at UCLA. So let me talk a little bit about the company history. It was founded in 1925, in July by these three gentlemen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=137.17,497.95"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The founder on the left came from Texas. His name's William Nickerson. Junior, the man in the middle is George Beavers, a clergyman. And the man on the right is an insurance agent from northern California named Norman Houston. And they came together in 1925 to create Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles. And the reason why is because black Angelenos or forty thousand black Angelina's at the time living in Los Angeles that had no access to life insurance. They also sought to create jobs that paid a living wage, too, and they did. Both of those in the company existed for about 90 years. This is the site of the first home office on Central Avenue. They leased that top story. Was it like a very, very small closet sized room? And they quickly grew out of that, moved to other locations down Central Avenue. And then I just wanted to show for the fashion. These are the founders. That's them at the beach in Santa Monica on a weekend. This is their weekend casual gear. That's George Beavers on the left. The founder, Nickerson in the middle. And on the right, Norman of Houston. And this beach was a segregated beach and they referred to it as the ink spot. And that little guy on the right hand corner crawling toward us. That will be the son of Norman in Houston who went on to become the CEO and the chairman, the board, the chief executive officer of Golden State Mutual and who donated the collection to UCLA in 86. And this is Ivan J. Houston in the 60s. And then in the 80s, he donated the first fifty two boxes to UCLA Labor Special Collections in 1986. And this is their final office on Western and Adams in the historic West Adams district.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=498.37,597.31"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This is where we packed up the second excession when the company went into receivership in 2009. The Insurance Commissioner of the state of California then gifted the remaining records, which turned out to be a hundred and twenty five linear feet of the oldest records of the company history. And we have three days to pack these records up, because as you can see from this image, some of there was a water main break and some of the records were damaged and we needed to get them to UCLA preservation as soon as possible. And we need to do appraisal very quickly in three days. When I started processing the collection in 2014, I had six months to do so under the Heyns Foundation grant. And there was no what we did when we got it, maybe six, is we just published an inventory to the online archive of California so that researchers could begin to access the collection. But there was no arrangement, no description of the records, really. So what I did was I pulled both AC sessions together, I imposed an arrangement, and then I chose to do as much description as I could. I focused on women more this time because they were kind of they weren't that visible in the historical record. These are two women that rose to become the first and second members of the board of directors. On the left is Helen Bhatti's, who is George Beaver's sister, who was the first woman to work for the company in 1925. She was the first office girl she rose to become. She rose up the ring. She basically took every position in the company until she became the first woman on the board of directors and onto her right as Bernard Hickman, who is the daughter of Nickerson, the founder of the company, his sister Rosetta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=597.64,682.21"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she was hired in 1926 and rose to become the second woman on the board of directors and also headed up an award winning public relations department for GSM. And this is an example. This is the Black Vignette series. And this is an example of Hickman's work as public relations director. These are basically essentially black history cards, which were used in in schools. They were used by community organizations to educate. They were also used by the agents when they were out in the field, going to door to door, selling insurance and talking about black history, the cup, the company. The records have been used by researchers for everything from black history, economics, civil rights and other areas like the study of the Watts community. This is Mayor Bradley driving in the White Summer Festival parade. It's also been used to study Black History Month. That's right. And her, our Authors' Study Club, some people's own researchers are interested in tracing that into Los Angeles is the Foundation of Black History Month. And finally, in box forty one or the Betty Mason papers and it's records. Of Mason's life in Los Angeles, where she emancipated herself in a Los Angeles courtroom. And she also founded the first Army Church and this boxes paged so much that the box is. You can feel that it's sort of dilapidated and you can tell that it's been well loved by researchers. So when we reprocess the collection, we were kind of hoping that her her papers would land in a different box, but they came right back into 41. So this is a very special box. And everyone at Library Special Collections knows that Miss Bidi Mason resides in Box 41 and is is our most researched part of the collection.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=683.11,780.1"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you. We are sticking to time and we're going to make sure our trains run on time. When Moman. So I need to talk today about the amateur recordings that are in the collection. The majority of the collection is still images, and then the rest of it is actually a lot of moving image material. And there's also a sound to a lesser degree, moving images across video and small gauge film. The audio is across quarter inch audio audiocassettes, autograph disks and lacquer, discs being and amateur recordings. There was a lot of COMMUN issues that we came across like noise, crosstalk and audio overwrite. But what's wonderful about them is that they give us a little peek into Golden State Mutual because we have so many still images in silent home movies that we, of course, couldn't hear anyone otherwise. And these recordings covered speeches, meetings, special events like anniversaries and dedication ceremonies, some oral histories, and even an audio memo outlining in painstaking detail the logistics for ordering a ring for the executives. And so here some of the stills from our moving image in the collection. These recordings are wonderful because they give us a really a fuller context to what many of the photographs and I said, and still, Simon, home movies show us they share evidence of their business strategies, efforts at professionalization and newground that they were hoping to break. And they highlight important figures, not just the executives, but also their families and supporters, as well as field agents and employees. Most significantly, these recordings demonstrate how the GSM staff and executives consistently saw the work they were doing in the larger context of history, how closely this work was tied to the community service and the struggle for economic equity and social justice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=781.45,908.98"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm going to play a few audio examples to demonstrate this, and we're going to start with an autographed disc recording of Lillian Harris. She's been is from May six, 1949. And it's she was being interviewed by GSM librarian Maney Spencer, who introduces her briefly. Mrs. Harris then goes on to talk about briefly her great pride in being connected to GSM. She's the mother of Norman O. Houston, president of Ghosty Mutual Hair, a 75 year gap. Very charming and very beautiful today. And a blue corrected rock. A full bloom week and a half. The beauty of her olive brown complexion and silver hair. And maybe it's better to be librarian of golden age mutual like one company. But boy, you hear? We'll be back again. HerIt. According to the mother of God Mutual Life Insurance Company, I have every member of my match that although I have reached the age where I am no longer active in me and I keep catching, the realization is greater each day. And after stepping up what she told me that day, William J. Nickerson Junior at the suggestion of Judge Aviva, said Lilly, a parent. You are the father of Gold Mutual Life Insurance Company. So there is other autograph recordings like this in the collection that also include interviews with Berthon Neverson, who is William Nickerson's wife, and Leuser Hudson, who served on the board of directors and has the distinction of being the first African-American mortician. And also Titus Alexander was a historian who is his reporting is also captured this way. Our next example is from the 25th anniversary celebration at the Home Office anniversaries and we're held every year celebrations every year around July, which commemorates the founding of the company back in 1925. And they were very richly documented throughout the collection.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=910.6,1064.61"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This one that I'm going to play for you is from 1950. And we can hear in this clip Andrew J. Johnson kicking off the event with a speech that highlights the work that they were doing. He at this point, he was corporate secretary. He'd started in the company as one of the first field agents and eventually wouldn't move on it in the ranks to become a chief administrative officer. Our company is a small corporation, but during the 25 years of its existence, I believe it has made its place in this great city of angels and within this the Byner state in the United States. We have taken our place in the ranks of commerce and industry that is making Los Angeles, California, known and respected throughout the nation and throughout the world. We are forging toward the same objectives of building a better community, a more secure citizenry and happier populace. That is the goal of all worthwhile public service institutions. So you see there that he's referring to go stay neutral as a public service institution. So definitely is more as an entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial and venture venture. The next example is going to be from a groundbreaking ceremony on Ellies East Side Office. That's from July 1974. And Ivan J. Houston will be speaking in this clip. Speaking about the importance of the East Side district to the success of Golden State Mutual and how important successful black businesses were to the community. Yet how rare is Father's Day? I would certainly like to say Happy Father's Day to all the other fathers. Happy Father's Day. I bet you good faith based upon the remarks that have already been made. How important Beloff and Willoughby's my district is to the company, because really it's been the first district is actually a well for which the other agency of the company now, not only here on the West Coast, but all the way to the east coast of Sprong, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1067.16,1207.91"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But it is very appropriate to begin construction here with a favorability, many black successes. It is true. We have had great athletes. We have had great entertainers. We have had outstanding politicians. We have had great educators and great religious personalities. But successful businesses owned and controlled by blacks are rare indeed. I say that as long as we are denied equal access not only to employment but to the very top of organizations, top of the Fortune 500 organizations. But we must be certain that our own businesses grow and grow and grow. Dedicated to that road here today. Thank you very much. Up next, I'm going to play a clip from the National Insurance Association meeting in July 26, 1962, where Robert F. Kennedy was addressing the association during his speech. He spoke about progress being made under the Kennedy administration in the area of black voter rights and civil rights and black professional employment opportunities. And he ended his speech with a call to the attendees to give back to the community by providing guidance and support to students and helping graduates find jobs. This approach was very closely already modeled by Golden State Mutual and their service. Their idea of giving back to a community service, job training and also later on the development of the Golden State Minority Foundation, which was a scholarship foundation of sorts that supported the education of low income and underrepresented students. In this clip, George Beavers takes the podium after, after and responds, thanking him for his message, acknowledging the challenges that they are taking on and speaking about the greater implications for the country. We say, thank you, brothers, but no message. Well, the challenges that it brings to us and we assure you that we accept those challenges.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1208.53,1367.58"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have discussed some of the same problems in our sessions here. And we are heartened by the fact that you recognize that as you helped to move this block, a racial discrimination and racial segregation from our country, you're not only helping Negro Americans, you are helping white Americans. You'll recognize that our country cannot occupy its place of leadership and be effective until these blogs have been removed. And that is very heartening to us. And we appreciate your recognition of that flag and your expressions. We hope that progress will be so accelerated in this field that the day will not be too far away when all of the states will join the union and abide by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. And lastly, I'm going to play a clip from a dedication ceremony for the Hall of Honor, the Hall of Honor. It actually occupies the Home Office ground floor where the historic murals were painted that are still actually there and showing the contributions of African-Americans to the history of California. During this ceremony, George Beavers, again, we have him speaking, speaking about Golden Gold State, Mutual's place in history. History is a continuous operation, new history being made, new record made everyday. And every year there's a new chapter in U.S. history. And the Hall of Honor is an appropriate link between what had gone before and what is going now and what it will be in the future. So again, I congratulate the persons who have the distinction of going into the Hall of Honor and paving the way for those who follow. So in this Hall of honor, the goal was to actually highlight the contributions of field personnel and the agents that went out and met with everyone. So we get their insurance policies in place and highlight their work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1369.02,1541.69"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So it was very much again and very valuable to them to sort of draw attention to all the people that helped to grow the company and help with their successes. So that's the last clip for me. And up next is going to be Sharni Miller, and she's going to look at the corporate recordings in the collections and the radio spots. Hi, everyone. So for this presentation, I'm going to focus on the corporate and commercial sound recordings in the G.S. Records. I've decided to title my presentation in the group before the record. Note that there is mad magnetic media in this group of clips, but for lack of a better pun, I'm sticking with I'm in the group and for the record. So here we go. So these recordings created art created by the company, included commercial advertisements, sponsored productions and narrative programs created for radio. Our story begins here in the Los Angeles Home Office, where the public relations department was based on everything from sales, advertising and community relations, fell under the purview of the public relations department. And by the time the company closed its doors in 2009, GSM had expanded to Oregon, Arizona, Washington, Michigan and Indiana. And commercial radio advertising allowed the company to broadcast services regionally and connected its various district offices. So the first clip I'm going to play is from 1967 commercial for Katie. I used it out of Bay Area and this program is one of the sponsored items. One of the media items sponsored by GSM and Go. When you decide to buy insurance, you want to deal with a company you can trust financially and as an individual. A company like Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company founded in 1925 and now the largest Negro owned and operated institution in the West.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1542.29,1675.44"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Golden State mutual bill representatives known as the Men with the Golden Pins, serve as life insurance counselors and as committed members to their communities. They represent Golden State Mutual as spearheads and the Negro Drive for Economic Security. Golden State Mutual works on the belief that confidence is a two way street. That as your confidence provides the foundation for Golden State Mutual's growth, so does the Golden State Mutual Company in your community help people live better lives? Why don't you find out about Golden State Services? Call or visit the man with the golden pen. Now, Bernie Hickman with for many years served as head of the public relations department and just to identify her. Here she is, the woman sitting in the crowd surrounded by the men. So with the exception of the previous clip, all the recordings that are going to be featured from this point forward were created during her tenure within the first 15 years of Golden State Mutual's founding, the company was already using radio to advertise its various services and communicate to potential customers. And meanwhile, external productions were also being produced outside of GSM, which interpreted the company's history for a larger audience. One, such production is destination freedom. And we're going to be listening to a clip from Mr. Jericho, just a claim which was produced by Richard Durham for the Chicago NBC affiliate WMC. Q And this is a narrative production that reinterprets the story of Jesus in Jason's founding through that Mr. Jericho character. And he's an insurance agent for the Judgment Day Insurance Company. And in a nutshell, Mr. Durant makes an assessment of Nickerson's lifespan if he continues on his current path. How long will he have left to live? And his current path includes advocating for fair employment practices and lobbying for equal rights and fair businesses, and most notably, the real William J.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1676.22,1808.65"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nickerson. William Dikkers in June or excuse me, died in nineteen forty five. And according to Mr. Erico, if he suspends these sort of activities, you can extend his lifespan by 10 years. And that's Richard Durham on the left and William Nickerson, junior on the right. Right now, we'll play an audio clip which details the founding of GSM. We were found a way to give a statute that called the law. Not provide for thousand dollar refund. An applicant were jailed without a couple of things. Now, we've gotten good reason that money, whatever they did get it it a. Would out, out. Big boy. We've got to go back to the back to our competitors nowhere where we set up a company, they've helped pass a law that fit with the requirement. If we don't have our child into weekly through. May nineteen twenty five, your application for a job for a new insurance company, Golden State Mutual, has been accepted. You may proceed with the establishment of your company. Before I go on, I just want to mention that the holdings of the destination down. If you're interested in looking at the scripts, those are the Chicago History Museum and the Schomburg Center at the NYPD has an entire run of recordings. So we'll just play a brief clip of another clip from Destination Freedom. Usually I check through your life policy and I'd be wise. Judgment Day Life Insurance Company expected you to collect your benefits before your time. We've done. You're still going around California demanding a fair employment practices law. Yes. My apologies. We haven't seen since I found I couldn't get my job back because I had no insurance against discrimination and leave. But if I ever get in people with one kind of insurance that I want to see that all people are insured against bigotry, prejudice, very broadly, the best insurance I know for that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1808.8,1956.03"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Am going to make that big tonight each year. I think that advances the cause of human equality is like reducing the freedom people have to pay. Live peace and equality for all people. Bill the policy, I'd like to say. Good night, Mr. Jericho. I'll leave you to a job, that pilot good night, William Nickerson. She just went down there and out of the blue with. There's poverty. It was all quite in order. Premiums paid for. The benefits are long overdue. Your key about finding a job to Jericho. Judgment Day Life Insurance Company, April 1945. Who was one of judgment day that, Brian? Another example of the corporate recordings in the collection is something called Golden State Life Insurance Broadcast, which was a radio program. I would say that Golden State Mutual sponsored the narrator is Dorji Beavers, who is one of the company executives. And it's notable because it features some Negro excuse me, African-American players using the parlance of such as Hall Johnson of the Hall Johnson Singers on Paul Johnson Choir, as well as Jester Harriston, who is the assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir. And Harriston was a noted actor, choral director and ethnomusicologist. If you're interested in learning more about your Harriston, usually I think his apology has a great interview with him on Archive Dorward and also accessible on Kalis. So with that, we'll just play a brief clip. Life without boomer experiences would be painful and not forget the. And been conducting a ball of yarn, too, right now in the video entertainment, I'm allowed to vote on the theory of the threat of prosperity. And from. I don't know. A move that would make the war really. La la, la di di. The movie arrived in time, I thought the problem was merely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525#t=1958.09,2145.89"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29699/file/97525/transcript/19130/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But where? Either way, wherever they're coming from, man, I met down round and round and round, right around the corner on the way down the road, like not out of. So just briefly, in terms of current initiative where initiatives we're working with the Golden State Mutual Alumni Association, which was a group that was founded after the company, its closure in 2009 by former staffers, and they meet monthly. So we've been doing is working with them to help with identifications of the various individuals in these photographs. Pardon me? Because as you can see, as one would expect, in eighty five years of service, several different employees came through the company. And what we really would like to do is see that as many people as we as can be identified are identified and more context is given to the media as well as the photographs. And we're also looking into hosting a community screening with that. Thank you. These are e-mails. If you have any questions and the collection is online on Harleysville, which now has over twenty four hundred items with more to come over the next few months. 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