FARMERS UNION CENTRAL EXCHANGE (SAINT PAUL, MINN.):

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Farmers Union Central Exchange (Saint Paul, Minn.), creator.
	Title:	Organization records.
	Dates:	1894-1993 (bulk 1931-1981).
	Abstract:	Subject files, news clippings and scrapbooks, printed materials, photographs, product catalogues, motion pictures, and phonograph records relating to a farmer-owned cooperative based in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota that provides farm and home supplies to member coops in the North Central and Northwestern states. The Central Exchange (CENEX) was incorporated in 1931 and for most of its existence was headquartered in South St. Paul, Minnesota.
	Quantity:	32.5 cubic feet (32 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf location.

The collection is composed mostly of subject files containing information about various products and services offered by CENEX, its various facilities and operations, its officers and employees, and affiliated local coops. There is information about the history of the organization, and of the cooperative movement generally; various products carried and manufactured by CENEX; farm tractors manufactured and sold through CENEX; employee education and training; an oil refinery owned by the organization in Laurel, Montana; and several subsidiary and related businesses. Motion pictures are primarily concerned with farmers and farming, with cooperatives, and with CENEX itself; several film catalogs provide brief synopses of these and other motion pictures. Most of the phonograph records were apparently meant to be used in conjunction with filmstrips as training presentations.

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ARRANGEMENT


		Subject Files
		Product Catalogues
		Audio-Visual Materials
		Oversize Materials

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Farmers Union Central Exchange Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 14,312; 14,590

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017294390104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

SUBJECT FILES

Location

Box

145.L.9.1B

Advertising:

undated and 1962-1976.

Advertising Department, undated and 1978.

Advertising and promotion:

"The Co-op Shoppers" (radio program), undated and circa 1960-1964.

Photographs, undated and 1937-1980.

Affirmative Action program, 1972.

Agri-business scholarships, 1974-1976.

Agricultural scenes photographs, undated and 1942-1970s.

American Farm Bureau, undated and 1953-1993.

Annual meeting files:

1931-1964. 31 folders.

Location

Box

145.L.9.2F

1965-1978. 26 folders.

Location

Box

145.L.9.3B

1979-1983. 13 folders.

Annual meetings:

Clippings:

1956-1957.

Annual report photographs, undated and 1971.

Art:

Bonniedale, circa 1963.

Photographs of painting by Libbie Nolan.

Photographs, circa 1958.

Articles of incorporation and bylaws, undated and 1931-1979. 2 folders.

Audit analysis, 1962.

Audit report, 1954.

Awards, undated and circa 1953-1967.

Business management of Co-ops workshop, 1969.

CF Industries, Inc., undated and 1967-1982. 2 folders.

(SEE ALSO: Central Farmers Fertilizer Company)

Location

Box

145.L.9.4F

Capper-Volstead Act, undated and 1947-1981. 2 folders.

Car trials photographs, circa 1968.

Cash return and community builders pamphlets, 1966-1975.

Cenescope, 1962-1963.

Cenex Seed Company. Photographs, undated and 1966-1967.

Central Exchange Agency, Inc., undated and 1946-1948.

Central Exchange Foundation. Photographs, 1967-1970.

Central Farmers Fertilizer Company: Photographs, undated and 1957-1979. 2 folders.

(SEE ALSO: CF Industries, Inc.)

Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis, 1923-1936.

Christmas cards, undated and 1958-1970.

Clark County Co-op (Battle Ground, Washington), 1969.

Clippings: Miscellaneous, undated and 1932-1983.

Communications, undated.

Computer farming, undated and 1976-1983.

Computers: Photographs, undated and 1957-1971.

Consumer Cooperative Association, 1943.

Contests:

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1965-1968.

Name the Grease, 1964. 3 folders.

Name the Diesel Fuel: Photographs, 1968.

Co-op fact book, 1968.

Co-op Month: Photographs, undated and 1952-1968.

Cooperative associations:

History, undated and 1892-1970.

Minnesota, undated and 1953-1966.

Opposition counterattacks, undated and 1944-1981.

Location

Box

145.L.9.5B

Cooperative Printing Association, undated and 1959-1970.

Corporation farming, undated and 1967-1976. 2 folders.

Credit card: Photographs, undated and 1966.

Credit Department, undated and 1956-1964.

Customer Service Department, 1978.

Dairies:

Webster Cooperative Dairy Association (Webster, Minn.), undated and 1961-1963.

Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative (Union Center, Wis.) photographs, 1964.

Directories:

1971-1985.

Cenex/Land O'Lakes, undated and 1989. 2 folders.

Directors:

undated and 1952-1983.

Board meeting photographs, 1969.

Directors meeting (Laurel, Montana), 1966.

Photographs, undated and 1934-1970. 3 folders.

Directors meetings photographs, 1955-1968.

Director-Manager Meetings:

undated and 1957-1969.

Photographs, undated and 1958-1968.

Displays:

Annual meeting: Photographs, 1965.

Co-op merchandise: Photographs, undated and 1937-circa 1969. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1943-1967.

Location

Box

145.L.9.6F

Distribution centers:

1966-1979.

Inver Grove Heights, Minn.:

Construction photographs scrapbook, 1965.

Photographs, undated and 1965-1975.

Pasco and Williston, 1978-1980.

Strike (1976), 1976-1977.

Distribution Department, undated.

Drum and Bugle Corps:

undated and 1941-1946.

Photographs, undated and 1940-1946.

Drum reconditioning plant, undated and 1956-1969. 2 folders.

Employees:

Activities: Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1949-1968.

Bowling photographs, 1941-1968.

Chorus, undated and 1945.

Club ("Home Office Local No. 1"), 1949-1962.

Credit union, 1967.

Manuals, undated. 2 folders.

Miss Cenex pageant:

1972-1977. 3 folders.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1966-1975.

Orientation, undated and 1975.

Picnics: Photographs, undated and 1962-1970.

Publications: Local Levity, undated and 1951-1952.

Service awards: Photographs, undated and 1950-1970.

Location

Box

145.L.9.7B

Twenty-Five Year Club Photographs, 1975.

Uniforms: Photograph, circa 1970.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1946-1979.

Miscellany, undated and 1957-1983.

Executives: Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1943-1966.

Expo '74, 1974.

Facilities, undated and 1961-circa 1982.

Farm coalition meeting: Photographs, 1972.

Farm consultants: Photographs, undated.

Farm credit banks open house: Photographs, 1967.

Farm machinery:

Building under construction, 1949.

(1100 N. Concord St. Building, South St. Paul, Minn.)

Cockshutt: Photographs, undated and 1958-1960.

Displays: Photographs, undated and 1967.

(1100 N. Concord St.)

Plant: Photographs, undated and 1948-[1950-].

Farm Progress Days: Photographs, 1961.

Farm service: Tire, [196-].

Farmers Forage Research Cooperative, 1976.

Farmers Intermediate Credit Bank, 1967.

Farmers Union Commission Company: Corporate record book, 1927-1935.

Farmers Union Cooperative Credit Association, 1938.

Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association: Seed purchase, undated and 1959-1965.

Farmers Union Herald anniversary, circa 1949.

Location

Box

145.L.9.7B

Farmers Union Marketing Association (South St. Paul, Minn.), undated.

Farmers Union Press Association: Photographs, undated and 1954.

Farmers Union Terminal Association: 1932.

Farmers unions: States, undated and 1941-1972.

Feasibility study (regarding Land O'Lakes), 1975-1980.

Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of St. Paul, 1958-1974.

Federal Land Bank award to Steichen, 1968.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, undated and 1974-1979.

Feed mills:

Columbus, Wisconsin, undated and 1965-1967.

Inver Grove Heights, Minn.: Photographs, undated.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1961.

Feed, Seed, Fertilizer and Chemical Division:

undated and 1952-1982.

Photographs of displays, undated and 1949-1959.

Fertilizer:

undated and 1958-1980.

Bulk fertilizer photographs, undated and 1958-1963.

Northwest Cooperative Mills plant (Pine Bend, Minn.), undated and 1961-1967.

Photographic negatives, undated.

Photographs, undated and 1949-1966.

Location

Box

145.L.9.8F

Photographs, undated and 1958-1970. 2 folders.

Test plot results: Photographs, undated and 1949-1962.

Field staff: Photographs, undated and 1932-1968.

Films (motion pictures), undated and 1954-circa 1981.

Financial reports:

1956.

1982-1987. 3 folders.

Financial miscellany, undated and 1972-1980.

Fire and fire safety photographs, undated and 1966.

Foreign visitors: Photographs, undated and 1960s-1970.

4-H: Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1977.

Freedom Quilting Bee Co-op (Gees Bend, Ala.): Photographs, 1970.

Full Circle, Inc., 1978.

Future Farmers of America, undated and 1961-1982.

Gift certificates, undated.

Grain Terminal Association:

undated and 1930-1980. 2 folders.

Annual meetings, 1948-1973.

Grange (Patrons of Husbandry): Photographs, [1960s?].

Grange Cooperative Wholesale:

undated and circa 1940-1980. 3 folders.

Photographs, undated and 1937, 1963-1971.

Location

Box

145.L.10.1B

Photographs: Visit to FUCE (Farmers Union Central Exchange), 1971.

Green Thumb, Inc., undated and 1967-1976.

History files:

undated and 1894, 1931-1983. 3 folders.

Background, undated and 1923-1993. 4 folders.

Co-op anniversaries, undated and 1959-1968.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1894, 1930-1941.

Fiftieth anniversary (1981):

1980-1981.

History book (published), 1980.

History book (typewritten manuscript), [1980?].

History research project:

[Harold Burns], undated and 1952-1970.

Oral history project:

List of taped interviews, 1979.

Oral history interview transcripts:

Belk, Floyd, undated and 1962.

Burns, Harold, 1970.

Calvin, Frank, 1969.

Christianson, Hugo, Sr., 1968-1969.

Cook, Elmer, 1970.

Dahl, Andrew, undated, (1967-1968?).

Egan, Peter T., 1967.

Location

Box

145.L.10.2F

Ellefson, Norval C., undated.

Fortner, J. W., 1970.

Jentink, Norman, undated and 1968-1974.

Kelly, Joseph L., 1969.

Larson, Leslie, undated and 1969-1981.

Melland, Gilmer, 1967.

Mitchell, C. J., 1950-1979.

Moseson, G. L., 1968-1969.

Nolan, Joe, 1961-1970.

Novak, Antoine, undated and 1967.

O'Connor, Lewis, 1969.

Re: D. L. O'Connor.

Ricker, A. W., undated and 1940-1959.

Robinson, Vernon, 1967.

Rosenberg, Oliver, 1969.

Sandie, Hans M., 1960-1967.

Siebel, Fred, 1967-1968.

Wagner, Harry, 1968.

Twenty-fifth anniversary(1955), 1955.

Home office:

Buildings:

1100 North Concord St.: Photographs, undated and 1949-1970.

1185 North Concord St.:

undated and 1955-1983.

Construction of additions: Photographs, 1963, 1971.

Construction photographs, 1956-1957.

Groundbreaking photographs, 1955.

Mural photographs, undated and 1957-1968.

Photographs, undated and 1957-1974.

1200 North Concord St.:

undated and 1935-circa 1952.

Photographs, undated and 1935-circa 1959. 4 folders.

Site photographs, undated and 1934-circa 1935.

Railroad roundhouse and shops.

Inver Grove Heights, Minn.:

1979-1982. 2 folders.

Cornerstone, 1981.

Moving from 1200 to 1185, 1957.

Tunnel construction photographs, 1955.

Location

Box

145.L.10.3B

Cafeterias: Photographs, undated and 1944-1971.

Flood, 1965.

Queen pageant photographs, 1962-1970.

Switchboard photographs, undated and 1944-1966.

Honeymead (Mankato, Minn.): Photograph, 1960s.

Soybean processing plant: Grain Terminal Assn.

Incentive program, 1971-1973.

Income taxes, 1932-1956. 2 folders.

Information center, undated and 1969.

Information Processing Department, 1981.

International Cooperative Training Center, 1965-1966.

International Lumber Company (Vancouver, B.C.): Photographs, 1947.

Inventory control, 1977-1979.

Kennewick (Washington) Feed plant sale, 1974.

Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., undated and 1956-1993. 2 folders.

Liquid petroleum: Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1962-1967.

L.P. (liquid propane) gas plants:

Managers' meeting, 1962.

Photographs:

Minnesota, undated and 1942-1968.

Montana, undated and 1948-1955.

North Dakota, undated and 1946-1956.

South Dakota, undated and 1947-1969.

Wisconsin, undated and 1951-1955.

Litter bin promotion:

Photographs, 1965.

Local (member) co-ops:

Grand opening photographs, 1970s.

Idaho: Photographs, 1961.

Minnesota:

1971-1993.

Photographs, undated and 1943-1972. 2 folders.

Montana: Photographs, undated and 1942-1980. 3 folders.

North Dakota: Photographs, undated and 1934-1963. 2 folders.

Location

Box

145.L.10.4F

North Dakota: Photographs, undated and 1934-1980. 2 folders.

Old (service) stations: Photographs, undated and 1932-1968. 2 folders.

Open houses, undated and 1961-1970.

Oregon and Washington: Photographs, undated and 1957-1964.

South Dakota: Photographs, undated and 1944-1975. 2 folders.

Sparkle awards, undated and 1965.

Utah: Photographs, circa 1970.

Wisconsin: Photographs, undated and 1894, 1932-1981. 4 folders.

Wyoming: Photographs, 1967-1968.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1932-1951.

Logo, undated and 1939-1976.

Loyalty Day parade photographs, 1968.

Managers: Miscellaneous photographs, undated.

Managers meetings:

1954-1966. 5 folders.

Photographs, undated and 1948-1967.

Location

Box

145.L.10.5B

Managers tour: Photographs, circa 1968.

Manuals for local co-ops, 1964.

Marketing, undated and 1968-1983.

Members:

Membership newsletter, 1974-1977.

Miscellany, undated and 1943-1980.

Midland Warehouse Cooperatives, Inc.: Photograph, 1970.

Minnesota agriculture, 1936-1972.

Minnesota Association of Cooperatives, undated and 1944-1983.

Minnesota Farm Bureau, undated and 1991-1993.

Minnesota Farmers Union: 1946-1993.

Mutual Service Insurance Company, undated and 1971-1981.

National Cooperative Refinery Association:

Co-op gasoline road test photographs, [1960s].

Photographs, undated and 1943-1969.

Refinery photographs, undated and 1943-1971. 2 folders.

(McPherson, Kansas)

Tour photographs, 1951-1968.

National Cooperatives, Inc.: Photographs, undated and 1958-1972.

National Farmers Union:

undated and 1941, 1989.

Annual meetings:

undated and 1954-1980. 3 folders.

Policy statements, 1960-1981. 2 folders.

Location

Box

145.L.10.6F

Patton, James G., undated and 1954-1966.

Photographs, 1958-1966.

Nonpartisan League, undated and 1923-1946.

North Dakota history, undated and 1942-1974.

Northern Tank Lines, undated and 1974-1975.

Northern Tier pipeline, undated and 1978-1983. 3 folders.

Northwest Cooperative Mills:

undated and 1945-1967. 2 folders.

Fertilizer factories: Photographs, undated and 1944-1961. 2 folders.

Northwest Drouth Relief Committee, 1931-1938.

Office procedures manuals, 1972-1975. 3 folders.

Oil Basin Pipeline Company, undated.

Oil blending plant (South St. Paul, Minn.): Photographs, undated and 1943-1969.

Oil sales contests photographs, 1944-1945.

Oil well photographs, undated and 1943-1970.

Operating policies for co-ops, circa 1972.

Location

Box

145.L.10.7B

Operation Interface:

undated and 1974-1979. 4 folders.

Williston, N.D. and Aberdeen, S.D., undated and 1973-1976.

Pacific Supply Cooperative, 1977.

Parades: Loyalty Day, South St. Paul, Minn.: Photographs, 1968.

Patronage refunds, 1961-1973.

Personal name files:

A-Z, undated and 1938-1981. 6 folders.

Doheny, Leo, undated and 1956.

Ellefson, Norval C., undated and 1953-1976.

Johnson, Oscar, 1942.

Knudson, Virgil, undated and 1970-1977.

Maddock, Walter J., 1932.

McKay, John C., undated.

Mortenson, Doane, undated and 1981-1983.

Moseson, Darrell, undated.

Steichen, Thomas H., undated and 1934-1972.

Syftestad, Emil A., undated and 1945-1957.

Tvedt, Jerome G., undated and 1971-1982.

Location

Box

145.L.10.8F

Petroleum Division:

undated and 1932-1983. 2 folders.

Photographic negatives, undated and 1970.

Photographs:

undated and 1946-1977.

Petroleum laboratory: Photographs, undated and 1943-1966.

Petroleum Planning and Economics Department, 1981.

Petroleum refineries, undated and 1954-1963.

Pipelines, undated and 1960-1978.

Plant (South St. Paul, Minn.): Photographs, undated and 1937-1947.

Plowville Days photographs, [195-].

Premier Oil Refining Company: Photographs, undated and 1940-1949.

Popcorn stand, [196-?].

Price lists, 1942-1945.

Product decals, undated.

Products:

Appliances, undated and 1946-1963.

Feed, undated and 1992-1993.

Gasoline, undated and 1960-1970.

Grain bins, undated and 1960-1970s.

Grease, undated.

Green House Lawn Weed and Feed, undated.

Insect control, undated.

Livestock care, undated and circa 1982.

Motor oil, undated and 1947-circa 1993.

Paint, undated and 1946.

Seed, undated and 1969.

Tires, batteries, and accessories, undated and 1960-1970. 2 folders.

Twine, 1961.

Weed killer, undated and 1959-1969.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1943-1962.

Project Grow, undated and 1966-1969. 1 folder.

Location

Box

145.L.11.1B

Project Grow, undated and 1966-1969. 1 folder.

Public relations, undated and 1981.

Publications (miscellaneous in-house printeds), undated and 1954-1978.

Publicity: Radio, undated.

Race cars (CENEX-sponsored stock cars):

Photographs:

undated and 1969-1971. 3 folders.

Refinery (Laurel, Montana):

undated and 1952-1979.

Alky unit, undated and 1952, 1964-1968.

Clippings scrapbook, 1952.

Construction photographs:

1929-1930.

undated and 1962-1968.

Mildred Grossman photographs, 1968-1969.

Open House photograph album, 1952.

Photographs, undated and 1929-1976. 5 folders.

Location

Box

145.L.11.2F

Photographs, undated and 1952-1972.

Photographs ("Hawk Set"), circa 1952.

Service awards: Photographs, 1968.

Strike, (1969), 1962-1969. 2 folders.

Sulfur plant, undated and 1966-1969.

Refineries: Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1929-1969.

Research: Miscellaneous photographs, undated.

Retirements: Photographs, undated and 1957-1970.

St. Paul Ammonia Products, Inc.: Photographs, [195-].

St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives, undated and 1963-1980.

St. Paul Winter Carnival Snowmobile Race photographs, undated.

Sales:

Greases and oils manual, 1953.

Photographs, undated and 1968.

Plans, 1968-1970. 2 folders.

Regional sales staff meeting: Photographs, 1977.

Review, 1977-1981.

Training, 1962.

Miscellany, 1955-1981.

Savings and sharing program, undated and 1957-1961.

Scholarship program, undated and 1961-1980.

Schools:

Farm machinery: Photographs, 1950-1955.

Feed sales, undated and 1960-1966.

Home appliance, 1948-1964.

Liquid petroleum, undated and 1966.

Management training:

undated and 1957-1964.

Photographs, undated and 1934-1971.

Oil burner service, undated and 1961-1963.

Petroleum Sales, undated and 1959-1968.

Photographs (miscellaneous), undated and 1948-1967.

Tire sales training, undated and 1969-1962.

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145.L.11.3B

Truck salesmen: Photographs, undated and 1952-1962.

Welding, 1960.

Schools and seminars, 1950-1970.

Scrap iron collection campaign, 1941.

Seed plants and distribution centers: Photographs, undated and 1974.

Seeds: Photographs, undated.

Senex Service Company, 1975.

Service Center (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), undated and 1966-1971. 2 folders.

Service stations: Photographs, undated and [193-]-1974. 2 folders.

Service station equipment: Photographic negatives, undated and circa 1960.

Service stations and local co-ops:

Idaho: Photographs, [196-]-[197-].

Minnesota:

Photographs:

[196-]-1993.

A-W, 1959-1962. 3 folders.

Montana: Photographs, [196-]-[197-].

North Dakota: Photographs, [196-]-[197-].

Oregon: Photographs, [196-]-[197-].

South Dakota: Photographs, [196-]-[197-].

Washington: Photographs, [196-]-[197-].

Wisconsin: Photographs, [196-]-1993.

Miscellaneous photographs, [196-]-[197-].

Showcase: Photographs, 1968-1970.

Soil service centers:

undated and 1957-1962.

Minnesota:

undated and 1959-1966.

Photographs, undated and 1959-1962.

Montana, undated.

Location

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145.L.11.4F

North Dakota, undated and 1961-1969.

Photographs, undated and 1958-1967. 2 folders.

South Dakota, undated and 1959-1977.

Wisconsin, undated and 1958-1967.

Soil testing: Photographs, undated and 1965.

Song books, undated and 1940-1957. 2 folders.

South Dakota 4-H barbecue: Photographs, 1976.

Special events and advertisements, 1962.

Speeches: Edwards, Egan, Moseson, undated.

Statistics, 1970-1980.

Stockholders: Miscellany, 1926-1972.

Sunflowers, undated and 1980-1982.

Tank cars: Photographs, undated.

Technical assistance in foreign countries, undated and 1965-1968.

Terminals: Photographs, undated and 1953-1969. 2 folders.

Tires:

Photographs, undated and 1947-circa 1963.

Sales and training, 1960.

Tours: Photographs, undated and 1947-1969.

Tractors:

Co-op farm tractor school, 1936.

Co-op tractors, undated and 1935-1982. 3 folders.

Location

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145.L.11.5B

Co-op tractors, undated and 1935-1982. 1 folder.

Photographs, undated and 1935-1978. 2 folders.

Specifications and general information, undated.

Farm implements catalog, 1937.

Other, undated and 1972-1979.

Training Center (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.): Miscellaneous photographs, undated and 1968-1970.

Transportation, undated and 1971-1979.

Trucks: Photographs, undated and 1939-1968. 2 folders.

Ulen, Minn., 1974.

United Cooperatives of Ontario: Photographs, [197-?].

Universal Cooperatives, Inc. (Albert Lea, Minn.), undated and 1971-1983.

Visitors:

Foreign: Photographs, undated and 1946-1969. 2 folders.

Other: Photographs, undated and 1965-1968.

WCCO Radio, 1939.

Special broadcast about cooperatives.

Wadena, Minn. Truck Co-op: Photographs, 1974.

Wardwell, Don F.: Photographs, circa 1966.

Warehouse managers: Photographs, undated and 1945-1965.

Warehouses:

undated and 1946-1981.

Minnesota: Photographs, undated and 1941-1956.

Montana: Photographs, undated and 1940-1955.

North Dakota: Photographs, undated and 1948-1967.

South Dakota: Photographs, 1948-1965.

Wisconsin: Photographs, undated and 1955.

Young couples conferences: Photographs, [197-]?

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PRODUCT CATALOGS

Location

Box

145.L.11.6F

General catalogs:

1937. Photocopy.

July 1947.

1956-1961. 8 volumes.

1965-1966.

Location

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145.L.11.7B

1973-1975. 3-volume catalog.


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145.L.11.8F	24	Appliance service and parts:
			1966.
			1970.

Farm implements, 1938.

Grange Cooperative Wholesale, 1970-1972.

Hardware and machinery catalog, 1941.

Hardware Messenger, undated and 1953-1971.

Office and advertising supplies, 1975.

Power and hand tools, 1981-1982.

Miscellany, undated and 1963-1964.

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AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS

Location

Box

145.L.12.1B

Motion pictures:

"American Farmers Mean Business," undated.

60-second television commercial.

"An Agricultural Portrait," 1958.

"Barrel No. 1," 1955.

"Big Test," undated.

"Bread from Stone," undated.

"Challenge of Wanless Lake," undated.

"Clean Grain," 1964.

"Citizen Dave Douglas," undated. 1 master film reel (31 minutes): sound, black and white; 16mm and 1 video file (MP4) on 1 user videodisc (DVD); 4 3/4 in.

Location

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145.L.12.2F

"Co-op Bushel," 1977.

"Co-op Paints," 1960.

"Cows, Kids, Co-ops," 1965.

"Fall Round-up," undated.

60-second television commercial.

"Farm Petroleum Safety," 1954.

"Farm Tractor Safety, A Family Affair," 1962.

"Farmer Digs a Well," undated.

"Farmers Union at Work," undated.

"The Farmers Union Central Exchange," [196-?].

"Farmers Union Refinery Story," 1960.

Location

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145.L.12.3B

"Fertilizer 80," 1980.

60-second television commercial.

"First in the Hearts of Farmers," undated.

"Formula for Profit," 1956.

"Future Farming," undated.

60-second television commercial.

"Gasoline for Everybody," [197-?].

"Goose Flies High," undated.

"Humphrey, Hubert H. at Annual Meeting," 1964.

"The Land," 1962. 2 reels.

"The Land: Legacy and Promise," 1964.

"Making the Most of a Miracle," 1965.

Location

Box

145.L.12.4F

"New Signs of Progress," 1972.

"Newsreel No. 1," 1952.

"Newsreel No. 2," 1953.

"Newsreel No. 3," 1958.

"Out of the Same Barrel," undated.

"Partners," 1956.

"Pipeline," undated.

"Place of Plenty," 1956.

"Power Farming the Co-op Way," undated.

Location

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145.L.12.5B

"Promise," undated.

"Producing Seed... the Co-op Way," undated.

"Progress Parade No. 11," undated.

"Refinery Construction," undated.

"Rural Co-op," 1957.

"St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives," undated.

"Seeds for Tomorrow," 1956.

"Service Station Pump Island," [1973?].

"Syftestad Family Album," undated.

"Telephone and the Farmer," 1956.

Location

Box

145.L.12.6F

"These Things We Own," 1957.

"This is the Farmers Union," 1956.

"This is Yours," 1950.

"Tomorrow's Tractor Today," undated.

"Truly Yours," 1957.

"Two Blades of Grass," 1956.

"What Price Plenty," 1956.

"Wilderness Day," undated.

Miscellaneous reel, undated:

1. "60 Second Changeover."

2. " 30 Second Changeover."

3. " Tough on Machinery."

4. "On-Farm Tire Service."

5. "Oil & Air Filters." (Walker)

6. "Power Fill Fuel System." (on farm fuel storage)

7. "Custom Application."

8. "Grain Handling Systems."

9. "Fall Fertilization."

10. "Care & Maintenance of You."

11. "Mark X."

12. "Farm Service Days."

13. 'North Dakota Plant Food."

14. "Home Place." (paint)

15. "Batteries."

16. "The Bike."

17. "Brown Bag."

18. "Farm Wife."

19. "Filter-Up."

20. "Radial Tractor Tire."

21. "Country Get Together."

22. "Fall Round-up."

23. "Superlube 518."

24. "Diggin' In."

Location

Box

145.L.12.7B

Phonograph Records:

"The Farmer and the Petroleum Salesman," undated.

"Farmers Union Central Exchange," undated.

"How Come You Work for a Co-op?," undated.

"Insurance for Co-op Growth," undated.

"Insurance for Co-op Growth" (revised), undated.

"The Man with the Big A," undated.

"The Road is Never Long," 1973.

"Taking the Ain't Out Of Paint/To Sell Paint...The Book is to Look it Up," undated.

With filmstrips.

"This Business Called a Co-op," undated.

With filmstrip.

"The Word for Co-op is Ours," undated.

Audio tape:

"Minstrel Act I," undated. 7-inch reel.

Videocassette (VHS):

CENEX 60th Annual Meeting Video Wall, 1991.

Includes interviews with founders and members, TV commercials, and still pictures, woven together with a narration, to sketch CENEX's history.

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OVERSIZE MATERIALS

Location

Box

142.E.16.7B

Advertising (new logo), 1973.

American Society of Equity and Equity Cooperative Exchange: Convention photograph, (rolled), 1914.

Annual Meetings:

Clippings scapbook, 1958.

Photographs, 1934-1944.

Clippings scrapbooks:

undated and 1941-1947.

undated and 1948-1951.

Central Exchange Messenger and Farmers Union Herald.

1959-1973.

1960, 1963.

Farmers Union Terminal Association: Stockholders meeting photograph, 1931.

Home office buildings: 1200 North Concord St. photograph, 1935.

Litter bin promotion: Poster, [1965?].

Minnesota Farmers Union:

Group photograph (rolled), [193-?]

Photograph (rolled) of meeting at Moorhead, Minn., 1940.

Motion pictures:

"In Your Hands," 1970.

"Things are Different Now," 1962.

Petroleum Division: Photographs, undated.

Race Car: Photograph, circa 1971.

Refinery (Laurel, Montana): Clippings scrapbook, 1952.

Miscellaneous oversize items, undated.

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RELATED MATERIALS

Annual reports are found in the Minnesota Historical Society reference library.

Oral history interview audio tapes have been transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society audio-visual collections.

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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:: Consumer cooperatives -- Minnesota.; Cooperation.; Cooperative societies -- Minnesota.; Cooperative societies -- Officials and employees.; Employees -- Training of.; Farm tractors -- Minnesota.; Fertilizers.; Petroleum products.; Petroleum refineries -- Montana.; Propane.; Service stations.; Warehouses.

Persons:: Steichen, Thomas H., 1912-1972.; Syftestad, Emil A., 1891-1957.

Places:: South Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Industries.

Organizations:: Chicago Great Western Railway Company (1940-1968) -- Pictorial works.; CR Industries, Inc. (Long Grove, Ill.).; Grain Terminal Association (Minn.).; Land O' Lakes, Inc.; National Cooperative Refinery Association (McPerson, Kan.).; Universal Cooperatives, Inc.

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