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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION |
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| Creator: | Excelsior Fruit Growers Association. | |
| Title: | Association records. | |
| Date: | 1900-1969. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, minute books, annual and financial reports, grower and customer lists, tax returns, legal documents, stock certificates, ledgers, journals, and records of fruit receipts and sales, primarily 1934-1969, of a fruit-marketing cooperative in Excelsior and Hopkins, Minnesota. | |
| Quantity: | 5.0 cu. ft. (10 boxes including 24 v.). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description. | |
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History of the Association
The Excelsior Fruit Growers Association was first organized in 1900 as a voluntary cooperative association for the marketing of fruit, and was incorporated in 1913. Stock was issued and each member was required to have at least one share. The Association maintained branches in Excelsior and Hopkins, Minnesota.
Changes in the state laws governing cooperatives brought about a revision and updating of the articles of incorporation and bylaws in 1934. This was also done in 1945 when the state laws were again changed.
There was a big increase in fruit growing in the years immediately following World War II, but in the decade of the 1960s metropolitan expansion had taken up so much of the land on which fruit had been grown that business decreased and the Association began operating at a loss. The corporation was formally dissolved in 1969. A complete history of the Fruit Growers Association is filed in the first folder of Box 1.
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
Correspondence, minute books, annual and financial reports, grower and customer lists, tax returns, legal documents, stock certificates, ledgers, journals, and records of fruit receipts and sales, primarily 1934-1969, of a fruit-marketing cooperative in Excelsior and Hopkins. The correspondence includes discussions of marketing problems, especially World War II sugar rationing and price controls.
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INDEX TERMS |
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| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
| Topics: | ||
| Agricultural wages--Minnesota. | ||
| Cooperative marketing of farm produce--Minnesota. | ||
| Fruit--Cooperative marketing--Minnesota. | ||
| Fruit Trade. | ||
| Price regulation. | ||
| Rationing--United States. | ||
| Sugar. | ||
| Places: | ||
| Hopkins (Minn.). | ||
| Excelsior (Minn.). | ||
| Documentation: | ||
| Corporation records. | ||
| Stock certificates. | ||
| Tax returns. | ||
| Persons: | ||
| Andreson, August Herman, 1980-1958. | ||
| Ball, Joseph H. (Joseph Hurst), 1905- . | ||
| Bowles, Chester, 1901- . | ||
| Coffman, Lotus Delta, 1875-1938. | ||
| Judd, Walter Henry, 1989- . | ||
| Knutson, Harold, 1880-1953. | ||
| McCarthy, Eugene Joseph, 1916- . | ||
| MacGregor, Clark, 1922- . | ||
| Pittenger, William Alvin, 1885-1951. | ||
| Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960. | ||
| Thye, Edward John, 1896-1969. | ||
| Youngdahl, Oscar Ferdinand, 1893-1946. | ||
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION |
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| Prefered Citation: | ||
| [Indicate cited item and/or series here]. Excelsior Fruit Growers Association Records. At the Minnesota Historical Society. See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples. | ||
| Accession Information: | ||
| Accession number: 11,241; 993-100 | ||
| Processing Information: | ||
| Processed by: Bonnie B. Palmquist, May 1995 | ||
| PALS ID number: 09-00026101 | ||
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