R. Miller Stanton oral history, 1964.

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R. Miller Stanton oral history, 1964.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934296

In this interview, R. Miller Stanton discusses his personal history and shares his observations of New York State canneries. Topics include: his job as a youth working for Cohocton Canning Company and for Mandeville and King Seed Company; his studies at Rochester Business Institute; his responsibilities as office manager for the New York Canners, Inc. (later the Snider Packing Corporation) including bookkeeping, field contracting, managing plant, and packing peas; his experiences packing meat in 1934 on government contract using animals slaughtered because of the drought in the midwest; packing frozen peas for the Frosted Foods Division of General Foods; making cream style corn; company personnel policies; how changes in cultural practices, harvest machinery and processing techniques improved the quality of processed peas.

83 p. of transcript.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Mandeville and King Seed Company.

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Cohocton Canning Company.

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Keuchel, Edward F.

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Snider Packing Corporation.

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Rochester Business Institute.

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General Foods Corporation. Frosted Foods Division.

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New York Canners, Inc.

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Stanton, R. Miller, 1900-

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Plant manager, Snider Packing Corporation. From the description of R. Miller Stanton oral history, 1964. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934296 ...