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Photograph of the Unity Industrial Life Insurance Company office?
Villard Paddio
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States
In 1906, the state of Louisiana passed a law to differentiate between benevolent societies and insurance companies. It defined insurance companies as businesses that employed agents to collect premiums and issue policy contracts. The first Black industrial insurance company in Louisiana was the Unity Industrial Life Insurance Company, founded in 1907. The photograph, by leading photographer Villard Paddio, is believed to be the office of Unity Life.
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- Title: Photograph of the Unity Industrial Life Insurance Company office?
- Creator: Villard Paddio
- Subject Keywords: Life Insurance--Louisiana, Villard Paddio
- Type: photograph
- Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
- Repository: Amistad Research Center
- Date: undated
- Collection: Lynn Abbott collection
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