Master Files (Fire and Broad Form), 1973

Initially used to generate monthly premium and loss reports, the Society’s computer-based record-keeping system replaced virtually all of the older insurance and financial records by 1972. Master Files (Fire and Broad Form insurance) and Perpetual Homeowners Lists provide the closest analogue to records of policies. These documents indicate policyholder, policy number, type amount of insurance, and premiums for all policies in force during a given year. Data could be sorted according to policy number, name of insured, or type of insurance, and the collection includes printouts of all three sorts for most years.