Skip to main content

Record Group 8.4: Communications Department Advertising & Public Relations Records, 1943 - 1989

 Record Group
Identifier: Record Group 8.4

Scope and Content Note

The Communications Department Advertising & Public Relations Records are rich in promotional and other news-worthy information disseminated by Liberty Life and Liberty Corporation over a forty-six year period. Topics range alphabetically from accidents to welfare, and cover most every conceivable topic of business in between. These records have heavy content in the areas of company/corporate advertising, product marketing, company/corporate news, departments and subsidiary information, and publications. This information represents both internal and external usage and targeting. For example, publications were primarily directed internally for employee use, whereas the brouchures in this collection had external audiences. Although all or most records were promotional in nature not all were intended to sell a product. Some advertising activities were service related and brought attention to company and civic events or programs. The Home Office Art Collection, Company Scholarships and Scholastic Awards, and Student Exchange Program are a few examples of these activities.

There are also a number of photographs associated with this collection. As with the photographs for the Communications Department Photographic Records (Record Group 8.1), these photographs also document a few issues of the Liberty Legion in 1968 and one issue of the Voting News from 1969. However, these photographs contain much more information about company sponsored programs that only the visual image can provide. This information concerns Advertising Plans, Home Office Art, Insurance Correspondence, Life Underwriters, Merit Scholarship, Regional Honor Ads/Hall of Fame, Policyholder Relations, Richland Mall, Student Exchange Program, and the United Fund.

Dates

  • 1943 - 1989

Historical Sketch

Please refer to the Communications Department History, which is found in Record Group 8.1, the Communications Department Photographic Records, for this information.

Extent

5.3 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Introduction

The Communications Department Advertising & Public Relations Records represent the promotional activities of the Liberty Life Insurance Company and The Liberty Corporation. These records also include various publications that delivered promotional and other company/corporate news. This register was created in 1999 by Alan Burns. The material came from Accessions #82-70, 82-78, 88-15, 88-17.

Separated Material

Photographs

Sixteen folders, each containing from one to thirty-three photographs of corporate activities, events and programs, in a half-size document box with the Liberty Corporation photographs; folders are titled as follows:

Advertising Plan, 1966

Home Office Art, Lobby Display, 1965

Liberty Life, Insurance Correspondence, 1966

Insurance Information, Life Underwriters, 1963

Life Insurance Agency Management Association (LIAMA), 1969

Merit Scholarship Winner, Ann K. Padgett, 1970

NALU Conference, 1969

Photographs for Annual Report, 1970

Photographs Regional Honor Ads, Hall of Fame Plaques, 1970

Policyholder Relations, 1968

Publications, Liberty Legion, April 1968

Publications, Liberty Legion, May-June 1968

Publications, Voting News, 1969

Richland Mall, Shopping Center, 1961

Student Exchange Program, 1970

United Fund, 1968

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
230 Kappa St.
Clemson SC 29634 U.S.A. US