Cooperative Consumers' Society records, 1936-1982.

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Cooperative Consumers' Society records, 1936-1982.

Form letters, reports, announcements, by-laws, union contracts, insurance reports, financial summaries, property appraisals, stock and debentures ledgers, publicity tracts, clippings, photographs, surveys, studies, membership lists, annual reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the activities of the Cooperative Consumers' Society, including records pertaining to store management, cooperation, volunteers, personnel, expansion, planning, construction, plans to reopen the Co-op Food Store in 1980, and other subjects. Also included are minutes and reports of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee; Education Committee correspondence, minutes, advertisements, and other materials; "Trade Winds," an employee publication; copies of the "Co-op Bulletin"; papers and a market survey analysis by Peter May; and papers concerning the early history of the Co-op, by Edward Wilson, Paul W. Gates, and Hugh Cosline. Also includes papers written for Cornell University course, Agricultural Economics 249 and other courses using the Co-op as their subject.

17.7 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7906475

Cornell University Library

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Wilson, Edward, 1846-1934

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Tompkins County Consumers Club.

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Cooperative Consumers' Society (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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The Cooperative Consumers' Society, Inc. was a cooperative food store in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. It was incorporated in 1936, after having been called the Tompkins County Consumers Club since its inception in 1934. From the description of Cooperative Consumers' Society records, 1936-1982. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938800 From the guide to the Cooperative Consumers' Society records, 1936-1982., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,...

Cosline, Hugh.

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Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999

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Historian, professor of history at Cornell University. From the description of Paul Wallace Gates interviews, 1979-1980. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074384 Professor of History, Cornell University. Paul W. Gates was born in Nashua, New Hampshire on December 4, 1901. He taught at Harvard and Bucknell from 1929-1936 and worked for the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1934-1935. He joined the history faculty at Cor...