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Binga State Bank and Supreme Life Records

CTL-E-0786 · Archive · collection · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Corporate records of Jesse Binga's Binga State Bank (1921-1930) and Supreme Life Insurance Company - central to Black Metropolis economic life: no publicly documented Chicago custodianship.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-037; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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