TWIN CITY MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Twin City Milk Producers Association (Saint Paul, Minn.), creator. | |
| Title: | Association records. | |
| Dates: | 1906-1988. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, historical information, agreements and contracts, bulletins, and similar files documenting the activities of a cooperative marketing association organized in 1915 to standardize practices in the marketing, pricing, and grading of dairy products among producers and dairies in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Minn.). | |
| Quantity: | 1.75 cubic feet (2 boxes, and 1 oversize folder in partial box), 2 master film reels: Super 8, and 2 user video files: MP4 (1.8 GB). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The association, a marketing cooperative, was organized in St. Paul in September 1915 by a group of dairy farmers seeking to deal with problems relating to standardizing the marketing, pricing, grading, and testing of dairy products produced in the Twin Cities area. In April 1970 the association merged with Mid-America Dairymen, Inc.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, historical information, agreements and contracts, bulletins, and similar files documenting the activities of a cooperative marketing association organized in 1915 to standardize practices in the marketing, pricing, and grading of dairy products among producers and dairies in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Minn.).
Subject files of particular interest concern the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; the Federal Farm Board, which administered the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929; and agreements and contracts (1919-1924) with various Twin Cities dairies. There are also copies of the Employees' Bulletin (1918-1923); the Association's Bulletin (1918-1919, 3 copies); the Association's payroll book (1917-1935); a stock certificate book (1917); and minutes and financial records (1906-1943) of the Centerville Star Creamery.
Oversize items (1929-1938) include newspaper clippings, tear sheets, charts, and other printed items relating mainly to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the activities of the Association.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Twin City Milk Producers Association Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 13,674; 14,865
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of film recordings are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, April 1993
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, June 2, 2023.
Digital video transferred from the master film recordings by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (June 2023).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 990017294220104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| 151.L.7.7B | 1 | Historical Information: | |||||||||
| Annual report, 1920. | |||||||||||
| Contains historical sketch, p. 12-18. | |||||||||||
| W. F. Schilling, Lest We Forget...A History of the Twin City Milk Producers Association, 1942. | |||||||||||
| Printed items regarding the Association, 1956, 1957, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Obituary of George Pederson, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Biographical data on board members, December 1960, December 1961, December 1962. | |||||||||||
| Subject Files: | |||||||||||
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration, undated and January 1933-February 1935. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
| Federal Farm Board: | |||||||||||
| Correspondence and related materials, undated and 1929-1932. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, 1930-1932. | |||||||||||
| Krem-Ko (Chicago, Ill.) bankruptcy, March-December 1931. | |||||||||||
| Harry R. Leonard correspondence, undated and March 1920-January 1932. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| W. F. Schilling correspondence, March 1924-April 1929. | |||||||||||
| Tariff Legislation: | |||||||||||
| Correspondence and related records, January 1929-September 1930. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other printed materials, 1929-1930. | |||||||||||
| Agreements and Contracts: | |||||||||||
| Agreements with Twin Cities dairies, 1917-1919. 6 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 151.L.7.8F | 2 | Agreements with Twin Cities dairies, 1919-1920. 2 folders. | |||||||||
| Fixed supply and fixed quantity contracts and agreements, 1920-1921. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous agreements, 1924. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence regarding contract cancellations, April-May 1921. | |||||||||||
| Includes audit reports from Twin City Food Products Co., 1920-1921. | |||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, 1929-1930. | |||||||||||
| Information on TCMPA and on the dairy industry. | |||||||||||
| Employees' Bulletin, September 20, 1918-May 17, 1919, 1922-[1923?]. | |||||||||||
| TCMPA Bulletin, January, August 1918, June 1919. | |||||||||||
| Federated Agricultural Trades of America: An Answer by the Coops (meeting): | |||||||||||
| Booklet, undated. | |||||||||||
| Address by W. F. Jensen, November 1927. | |||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings (unidentified meeting). | |||||||||||
| Accounts payable, 1920, 1921, 1934; Accounts receivable, 1919-1935. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Payroll record, December 1917-February 1919. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Stock certificate book, April-May 1917. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Centerville Star Creamery. Corporate Record Book: | |||||||||||
| Articles of incorporation, July 18, 1906. | |||||||||||
| Bylaws, September 18, 1906. | |||||||||||
| Minutes, 1906, 1907, 1915-1920. | |||||||||||
| Financial data, undated and 1916-1943. | |||||||||||
| Shelf Q-10-D (Room B-105.7) | Twin Cities Milk Producers Association plant, 1960s. 1 master film reel (7 minutes, 7 seconds): silent, color; Super 8 reversal positive camera original, and 1 user video file: MP4 (544.2 MB). | ||||||||||
| Contains footage of butter and milk packaging process at the plant. | |||||||||||
| Container note: Fgtm Butter. Nic Battling. | |||||||||||
Digital version
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| Twin Cities Milk Producers Association plants, 1966. 1 master film reel (17 minutes, 38 seconds): silent, color; Super 8 reversal positive camera original, and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.3 GB). | |||||||||||
| Contains footage of exterior shots of the plants, packaging process for dairy products, large mainframe computer technology, and of the offices. | |||||||||||
| Container note: Office - Mpls Plant. Cottage cheese vats, packaging, redi wip, laboratory. Farmington. Les Staff, Red S powder filling, warehousing powder. Baldwin. [Chippewa County Co-op Dairy, Butter Churn Printing]. | |||||||||||
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Digital version
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| +286 | Oversize Materials: | ||||||||||
| Wall chart of farm tariff rates, 1929-1931. | |||||||||||
| Prepared for the Agricultural Advisory Council. | |||||||||||
| "Parity for Agriculture Means Billions for Industry," December 1929. | |||||||||||
| Tear sheet of article that appeared in many eastern U.S. newspapers. | |||||||||||
| National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation, "Comparisons of Data on Dairy Products in Act of 1922...," March, May, August 1929, May, November 1930. 5 items. | |||||||||||
| TCMPA, "Comparison of Tariff Rates on Certain Selected Commodities," 1929. | |||||||||||
| Typescript charts. | |||||||||||
| Editorial clip sheets regarding farm issues, [1929?]. | |||||||||||
| "A Statement to Congress by Editors of Rural Newspapers in Minnesota," Minneapolis Journal, December 11, 1929. | |||||||||||
| "Help Keep the Promises to the Farmers...," 1929. | |||||||||||
| Tear sheet. | |||||||||||
| "Twin City Milk Producers Annual Meeting," Minneapolis Tribune, December 4, 1929. | |||||||||||
| Posting proof by stations and distributors, 1937-1938. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Agriculture and state -- Minnesota.
- Cooperative marketing of farm produce -- Minnesota.
- Creameries -- Minnesota.
- Dairy products -- Minnesota -- Cooperative marketing.
- Dairying -- Minnesota.
- Tariff -- United States.
- Persons:
- Leonard, Harry R.
- Schilling, William Francis, 1872-.
- Organizations:
- Centerville Star Creamery (Minn.).
- Mid-America Dairymen.
- United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
- United States. Federal Farm Board.
- Document Types:
- Digital moving image formats.
- Motion pictures.
- Occupations:
- Farmers.
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