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Repository:
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Creator:
Columbia Conserve Company
(Indianapolis, Ind.)
Title:
Columbia Conserve Co. mss., 1903-1953
Collection No.:
LMC 2244
Extent:
56,321 items
Language:
Materials are in English
Abstract:
The Columbia Conserve Co. mss.,
1903-1953, consists of the papers of the Columbia Conserve Company, a cannery in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
This collection is open for research.
In 1903 Charles Hutchins Hapgood, a successful plow manufacturer, bought the controlling interest in the Mullen, Blackledge Company. His three sons, William Powers, Hutchins, and Norman, became stockholders. William, who had had nine years experience with Franklin MacVeagh's Wholesale Grocery in Chicago, first as assistant shipping clerk and later as head of the manufacturing department, assumed the managerial responsibilities of the company.
After losing the original investment, the company was reorganized in 1910 and moved to Lebanon, Indiana. Two years later the company moved back to Indianapolis locating on Churchman Avenue. Following the death of Charles H. Hapgood in 1917, the company adopted a program of workers' management and ownership operating through a workers' council. In 1932 following the employment of Powers Hapgood, John Brophy, Daniel Donovan, and Leo F. Tearney, labor troubles developed and culminated in the dismissal of the last three named leaders. A committee of four composed of Jerome Davis, Paul Howard Douglas, Sherwood Eddy, and James Myers was then appointed by the Council and Board of Directors to investigate the difficulties and submit a plan of settlement. On September 1, 1942, the employees struck for higher wages and the following year Marion County superior judge Hezzie B. Pike, dissolved the trust and ordered the stock distributed individually to all who had worked at Columbia for at least six months since January 1, 1925. From 1943 to 1953 the company again was back in the hands of the Hapgoods. In 1953 the plant was sold to John Sexton and Company, Chicago, which took possession on May 1. At that time the formulas were purchased by Venice Maid Company, Vineland, New Jersey.
Among long-term employees of the company were C. Estella Franz, a member of the Mullen, Blackledge Company, who joined the Columbia Conserve Company staff in 1903 heading the order department and Howard Herner, a member of the shipping department, who was engaged as bookkeeper in 1918, a few years later assumed the duties of treasurer of the company.
For fifty years the company manufactured twenty-seven varieties of condensed soup, twenty-one varieties of Ready-to-Serve soup, and other fancy products such as catsup, boned chicken, salad sprouts, and brown gravy with beef, which were sold under buyers' labels.
In addition to the material found in the collection, information on the company appears in Devere Allen's Adventurous Americans... (New York, [c.1932]), pp. 217-32; William P. Hapgood's The High Adventure of a Cannery, Survey, LXVIII:655-58, 682, Sept. 1, 1922; John Bartlow Martin's Indiana: An Interpretation (New York, 1947), pp. 159-73; and Elfrieda Lang, The Columbia Conserve Company Papers, The Indiana University Bookman, November 1957, pp. 18-23. Another account of the company is by Russell Edward Vance, An Unsuccessful Experiment in Industrial Democracy: The Columbia Conserve Company, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1956. (D40 .V222)
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Business.
The Columbia Conserve Co. mss., 1903-1953, consists of the papers of the Columbia Conserve Company, a cannery in Indianapolis, Indiana. Included are correspondence and papers related to business.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT , the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.
Acquisition Information:
Acquired: 1953, 1955
Usage Restrictions:
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Item], Columbia Conserve Co. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana.
| Box 1 |
Series: Correspondence
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Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within the year.
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1911 -
1946 Bi
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| Box 2 |
1946 Bu-S
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| Box 3 |
1946 T - 1947 M
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| Box 4 |
1947 N - 1948 L
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| Box 5 |
1948 M - 1951 B
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| Box 6 |
1951 C - 1953 P
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| Box 7 |
1953 Q-Z
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Arranged alphabetically by subject, followed by large bound and disbound
volumes and oversized materials. Large volumes are arranged alphabetically
after the general ledgers.
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| Box 7 |
Accountant’s report, 1917
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Agreements to sell common stock, 1922, 1952
(6 folders)
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Articles of Incorporation
(see also: Box 75) |
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Auditor’s reports, 1919-1953
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Balance sheets, 1916-1918
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Brokers, list of names
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Brokerage statements, 1940-1948
(9 folders)
Alphabetically arranged within each year.
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| Box 8 |
Brokerage statements, 1949 (2 folders)
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Common stock certificates, 1944-1953
(4 folders)
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Common stock proxies, 1953
(4 folders)
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Common stockholders, list of names, 1953
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Company experience unemployment compensation plans, 1928
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Corporation reports
(see also: Box 75) |
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Customers, list of names, 1953
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Employees’ earnings sheets, 1947-1950
(8 folders)
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| Box 9 |
Employees’ earnings sheets, 1951-1952 (1 volume)
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Employees’ earnings sheets, 1952-1954
(1 folder)
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An Experiment in Industrial Democracy, by William P.
Hapgood.
Typescript, 68 pp.
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Form letters to brokers, 1941-1946
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Form letters to customers, 1933-1953
(9 folders)
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Form letters to salesman, 1933-1945
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Form letters and reports to stockholders, 1943, July 19 –
1953, July 10
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Invoices, 1947-1948, Jan.- July, A-F
(14 folders)
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| Box 10 |
Invoices, 1948, Jan.-July, G-Z –1948, Aug.-Dec., A-Z (17 folders)
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Labels, 1946-1953
(13 envelopes)
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| Box 11 |
Loading tallies, 1946 - 1953 (11 folders)
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Minutes:
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Annual meetings: 1917 (3
copies), 1919 1923, 1924, 1927-1929
(6 volumes, 3 folders)
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Board of Directors: 1903-1940
(1 volume, 2 folders)
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| Box 12 |
Board of Directors: 1941-1942, 1953 (3 volumes)
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Council: 1920-1930, Nov. 24
(10 volumes)
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| Box 13 |
Council: 1930, Dec. 1 - 1933; 1936,
June (5 volumes, 4 folders)
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| Box 14 |
Council: 1936, July - 1939, July (6 volumes)
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| Box 15 |
Council: 1940-1942
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Council meetings and Stockholders’ Reports, 1933-1944
(3 folders)
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Executive: 1933, 1934, May -
1943
(12 folders)
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Human Relations Council: 1928-1929
(1 volume)
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Stockholders: 1903, May - 1940,
July; 1920, Jan.
6; 1927, July
9; 1939, July
21; 1941, July-1954, Mar.
(1 volume, 4 folders)
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Photographs
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| Box 16 |
Preferred Stockholders, loose pages, 1919-1953
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Preferred Stockholder certificates, 1929-1951
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Price lists, 1930-1951
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Printed
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(see also: Box 75) |
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By CCC. Advertisements;
A Business
Without a Boss
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An Experiment
in Workers Ownership and Participation in Management of The
Columbia Conserve Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Ready To Serve Soups;
Summary of important factors in the
progress of The Columbia Conserve Company…
1938, 1939, 1941
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About CCC. Mostly clippings
(2 folders)
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Bushey, Morea & Wright, 1946-1953
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Canners Exchange Subscribers, Quarterly List of, 1946-1948
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Canners’ Market Report, 1946-1948, 1950
(2 folders)
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Canning, miscellaneous
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Catsup and Tomato Juice packers Association
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Clover Farm Stores, Corporation, 1942-1953
(5 folders)
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Commonwealth College Fortnightly, 1937-1938; Commoner, 1940
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Consumers’ Cooperation, 1937-1939
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Continental Can Co.
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Co-op News, 1937-1941
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Co-operative Productive Review, 1935, 1937-1938, 1947
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Co-operatives, miscellaneous
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Employment, miscellaneous
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The Facts in Food Distribution, 1933
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| Box 17 |
Indiana Canners Association, Inc., 1935-1953 (10 folders)
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Kimberly-Clark Corp.
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Myers Spalti Mfg. Co.
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National Canners Association
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National Meat Canners Association
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Plee-Zing, Inc.1942-1953
(4 folders)
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Red & White
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United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of
America reports
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United States government publications on canning
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The Voluntary Chains, 1931
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The Voluntary Chains, An Evolution in Distribution, 1931
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Voluntary Grocery Chains, Directory, 1932, 1934
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Weekly Digest, 1946-1948, 1950
(4 folders)
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Miscellaneous publications and clippings
(2 folders)
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| Box 18 |
Production
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Carrots, 1934-1942
(4 folders)
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Comparative sales data, 1939-1943
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Daily, 1929, 1931-1941
(1 volume, 11 envelopes. 1 folder)
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Formulas
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Material costs, 1941-1942
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Monthly analysis, 1936-1937, 1943
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Non-tomato, 1938-1939, 1943-1945
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Report of orders to Executive Committee, 1936-1942
(3 envelopes)
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Tomato, 1930-1931, 1933-1945
(13 folders, 5 envelopes)
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| Box 19 |
Tomato Farms, 1944
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Weekly schedules, 1933, 1939-1941, 1943-1944
(4 envelopes)
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Yearly schedules, 1934-1936, 1946 1947
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Miscellaneous
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Publicity articles obtained by Inter Ocean Syndicate, July 29, 1930 and August 13, 1930
(2 volumes)
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Revenue and expense statement, 1921
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Sales journal, 1946, Jan. 9 – 1953, Apr.
30
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Sales report, 1927-1939
(7 folders)
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| Box 20 |
Sales report, 1940-1949 (8 folders)
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Sales report, Clover Farm Stores Corp., 1946-1953
(8 folders)
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Sales representatives, 1946-1952
(6 folders)
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Scrapbook, 1930-1932
(5 folders)
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Shipping sheets, 1945 A-S
(17 folders)
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| Box 21 |
Shipping sheets, 1945 T - 1946 S
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| Box 22 |
Shipping sheets, 1946 T - 1949 Z
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| Box 23 |
Shipping sheets, 1950 A - 1951 K
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| Box 24 |
Shipping sheets, 1951 L - 1953 Z
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| Box 25 |
Shipping sheets, John Sexton & Co., 1950-1952
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Stabilizing employment and income, by E.S. Cowdrick
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Stockholders ledger, 1926-1953
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| Box 26 |
Tax returns, federal, 1933-1953 (2 folders)
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Tax returns, state and local, 1933, 1946-1953
(5 folders)
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Tax returns
(see also:Box 75) |
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Your Job Today Broadcast script
featuring CCC.
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Miscellaneous – Council, trustees, and executive committee,
1938-1946
(5 folders)
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General ledgers
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1910-1919,
1931-1934
(1 folder, 2 volumes)
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| Box 27 |
1920-1931
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| Box 28 |
1935-1943
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| Box 29 |
1935-1953
(4 volumes)
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| Box 30 |
Combined Journal, Cash and Daily Financial Statement
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(see also:Box 75) |
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1917,
Apr.-Dec.
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| Box 31 |
1918
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| Box 32 |
1919
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| Box 33 |
1920
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| Box 34 |
1921
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| Box 35 |
1922
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| Box 36 |
1923
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| Box 37 |
1924
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| Box 38 |
1925
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| Box 39 |
1926
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| Box 40 |
1927, Jan. -
June
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| Box 41 |
1927, July -
1928, June
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| Box 42 |
1928, July -
1929, June
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| Box 43 |
1929, July -
1930, June
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| Box 44 |
1930, July -
1931, June
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| Box 45 |
1931, July -
1932, June
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| Box 46 |
1932, July -
1933, June
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| Box 47 |
1933, July -
1934, June
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| Box 48 |
1934, July -
1935, June
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| Box 49 |
1935, July -
1936, June
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| Box 50 |
1936, July -
1937, June
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| Box 51 |
1937, July -
1938, June
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| Box 52 |
1938, July -
1939, June
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| Box 53 |
1939, July -
1940, June
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| Box 54 |
1940, July -
1941, June
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| Box 55 |
1941, July -
1942, June
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| Box 56 |
1942, July -
1944, June
(2 volumes)
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| Box 57 |
1944, July -
1946, June
(2 volumes)
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| Box 58 |
1946, July -
1948, June
(2 volumes)
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| Box 59 |
1948, July -
1950, June
(2 volumes)
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| Box 60 |
1950, July -
1952, June
(2 volumes)
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| Box 61 |
1952, July -
1954, June
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| Box 62 |
Common Stock Certificate Books
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1903, May
1-1920, Dec. 20;
1922, Apr.
21-1943, Aug. 5
(2 volumes)
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| Box 63 |
1943, Aug.
5-1933, Apr. 25
(2 volumes)
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| Box 64 |
1933, June
20-Aug. 3;
(2 volumes)
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| Box 65 |
Payroll summaries
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1947, Apr.
24-1951, Dec. 26
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| Box 66 |
1952, Jan.
2-1953, June 24
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| Box 67 |
Preferred Stock Certificate Books
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1925, Mar.
4-1929, Feb. 19
(2 volumes)
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| Box 68 |
1929, Feb.
22-1941, Dec. 18
(2 volumes)
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| Box 69 |
1930, Aug.
20-1943, July 15
(2 volumes)
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| Box 70 |
1944, June
13-1953, Jan. 10
(2 volumes)
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| Box 71 |
Registers
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Invoice. 1923, July-1942, June
(2 volumes)
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| Box 72 |
Invoice. 1942, July - 1953, Apr.; Distribution. 1940-1949 (3 volumes, 1 folder)
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| Box 73 |
Social Security Payroll Record
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1937, Jan.
7-1946, June 27
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| Box 74 |
1937, Jan.
7-1946, June 27 (cont.)
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| Box 75 |
1937, Jan.
7-1946, June 27 (cont.)
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| Box 76 |
1937, Jan.
7-1946, June 27 (cont.)
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| Box 77 |
1937, Jan.
7-1946, June 27 (cont.)
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| Box 78 |
1946, July 4-1947, Apr. 17 (cont.)
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| Box 79: Oversize |
Articles of Incorporation. 1910, 1912, 1917, 1925, 1928
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Combined Journal, Cash and Daily Financial Statement. 1917,
Jan.-Mar.
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Corporation Reports. 1921, 1922, 1924-1953
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Printed
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Midland Cooperator, Feb. 1939
(2 issues)
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The Co-operative Builder, 1936-1939
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Tax Returns, corporation income and excess-profits. 1930-1951
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