American Crystal Sugar newspaper clippings, 1902-1974 [microform].

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American Crystal Sugar newspaper clippings, 1902-1974 [microform].

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Newspaper articles relating to the American Crystal Sugar Company and its predecessors, collected sporadically by company officials to document activities at various company facilities. Most of the articles date from the 1920s and are from newspapers in towns where the company operated a factory. The articles discuss growing conditions, beet harvests, migrant labor, beet processing campaigns, and activities of commercial clubs and farmers' organizations in the area.

2 microfilm reels.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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American Crystal Sugar Company

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The American Beet Sugar Company, predecessor of the American Crystal Sugar Company, was incorporated on March 24, 1899. The new company consolidated under one management four beet sugar companies that had been established by Henry Oxnard during the preceding decade. Oxnard's interest in the sugar industry had been influenced by his father, Thomas, an entrepreneur who had successfully operated cane sugar refineries in Louisiana, Boston, and Brooklyn. In 1887 Henry had traveled to Eur...