Farmers' Grain Dealers Association Papers

Collection

Identifier: MsC0141

No requestable containers

Scope and Contents

The records of the Farmers' Grain Dealers Association date from 1914 to 1943. Thirty-one linear feet of business records are stored in sixty-two boxes. The records include files ranging from directory ads spanning fourteen years to freight rate cases, to convention reports from 1914 to 1941, to correspondence. There are also auditors' records, minutes from board meetings, and credit corporation records documenting the organization's operations for a period of over thirty years.

Dates

Creation: 1914-1943
Creation: Majority of material found in 1920-1940

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research. This collection is housed at an offsite location. Please allow two-three business days for retrieval and arrival to main library.

Conditions Governing Use

Full Extent

31.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence and subject files documenting nearly 30 years of this regional grain cooperative.

Method of Acquisition

These papers were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by the Farmers' Grain Dealers Association's Executive Secretary, Don E. Elison, in 1959.