Records, 1887-1927. (bulk 1888-1893).

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Records, 1887-1927. (bulk 1888-1893).

1) Financial & membership quarterly reports (county); 2) Correspondence which includes confidential letters, receipts, requests, and narrative reports 3) Lists of delegates elected to state and county meetings. 4) Constitutions and charters. 5) Account books, membership rolls, scattered death records and disbursement stubs. 6) Several issues of the Alliances' semi-monthly agricultural journal, The Cotton Plant. 7) One volume of original minutes beginning with the organizational meeting July 11, 1888 through 1898 and a carbon typescript of this volume prepared under the Works Progress Administration at the University of South Carolina in 1936. These minutes include the presidents' annual messages. 8) The 1893 annual meeting opened at Clemson College and Clemson professor J.S. Newman delivered the address before the participants moved on to Walhalla for the remainder of the session. 9) A single copy of the 1903 annual meeting minutes indicate the Alliance was very weak and that their Exchange Fund of some $17,000.00 was ordered to be returned to those who gave it. 10) The collection contains oversize sub-alliance charters, account books 1889-1896, death records 1888-1889, numerical rolls of sub alliances 1-851, warrants stubs, and three issues of The Cotton Plant, April 19, 1890, February 13, 1892, and September 17, 1896.") one negative of a January 27, 1891 letterhead of The National Reformer.

6 cubic ft. papers 7 record books, 2 storage boxes 12" x 17 1/2" x 2 3/4" Charters and newspapers, 1 box, 19" x 25" x 2 1/2."

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National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union

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Farmers' State Alliance of South Carolina

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The State Agricultural and Mechanical society, 1869, the State Grange or Patrons of Husbandry, 1872, and the Farmers' Association, 1886, preceded the July 11, 1888 organization of the Farmers' State alliance of South Carolina under the parent organization, the National Farmers' alliance and Cooperative Union of America. By 1890, more than one million farmers had become member of this non-partisan organization which established cooperatives, arranged social gatherings, disseminated a...