Records of the Great Western Sugar Company, 1893-1984.

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Records of the Great Western Sugar Company, 1893-1984.

The Records of the Great Western Sugar Company consists of photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, audio and videotapes and motion picture films produced by company photographers. Most of the photographs are black-and-white, but there are also a small number of color prints in the collection. A few boxes of textual materials are included, although most of the textual company records were donated by Great Western to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The photographs and documents are dated 1893 to 1984, with the bulk falling from 1950 to 1975. Photograph subjects include Great Western employees, factories, farms and farming equipment, growers and laborers.

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Each new factory of the Great Western Sugar Company quickly became the hub of the agricultural community in which it was built. The Great Western Sugar Company, incorporated on February 27, 1905, was the dominant producer of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska beet sugar for over sixty years. From the description of Records of the Great Western Sugar Company, 1893-1984. (Poudre River Public Library District). WorldCat record id: 66906174 Each new factory of the Great...