Supreme Lodge National Ideal Benefit Society Incorporated. Minutes of the Following Annual Conventions September 2-4, 1913...September 6-7, 1921

Richmond, Va: H.H. Price, 1921. Near fine.. [8],151pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and minor even toning. An early publication by an important Virginia African-American insurance cooperative. The present work is a compendium of reports for the annual conventions from 1913 to 1921 for the National Ideal Benefit Society, an African American co-ed fraternal organization created by A.W. Holmes in 1912. The text records the minutes of each annual meeting from the organization's inception, providing a detailed record of the organization's activities throughout the 1910s and into the early-1920s. The text is supplemented with a historical sketch of the organization written by T.C. Erwin, along with a portrait photograph of A.W. Holmes, and two full-page photographic plates -- one with four photographic portraits of "Deceased Supreme Officers" (two women and two men) and the other capturing the 150 or so "Officers and Delegates of the 9th Annual Session, 1921." Rare, with only five copies in OCLC, at Yale, Duke, the University of Virginia, the Library of Virginia, and the Virginia Historical Society Library.