GREEN GIANT COMPANY:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

Part or all of this collection is restricted.
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	Creator:	Green Giant Company, creator.
	Title:	Green Giant Company records.
	Dates:	1903-1994.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Financial and payroll data, examples of advertising and product labels and packaging, and other records of a Le Sueur, Minnesota-based vegetable canning company established in 1903 as the Minnesota Valley Canning Company, and whose business lines eventually included frozen foods, garden centers, restaurants, and other ventures. The collection includes historical information about the company and related and predecessor firms, research and development activities, and about migrant agricultural laborers in the employ of the firm.
	Quantity:	139.5 cubic feet (136 boxes, 9 folders in 1 partial box, and 20 volumes, unboxed), 16 master video files: MOV (105 GB), 164 user video files: MP4 (91.4 GB), 32 master audio files: WAV (1.8 GB), and 27 user audio files: MP3 (213 MB).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Green Giant Company had its beginnings with the 1903 incorporation of the Minnesota Valley Canning Company (MVCC), which established offices in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The firm marketed white cream style corn and, by 1907, canned peas. By 1928 it had canning facilities in Cokato, Montgomery, and Winsted, Minnesota. In 1930 it merged with Wisconsin Central Canneries, Inc. and the following year organized a Canadian affiliate, Fine Foods of Canada, Inc. (later Green Giant of Canada). Expansion in territory and products continued. In 1935 the company contracted with the Leo Burnett Company for advertising services, a relationship that continued for decades.

In 1950 the name was changed to Green Giant Company. The company experimented with frozen food products and acquired, operated, and sold restaurants, meat companies, a garden center business, and mushroom companies. The company's Green Giant mascot appeared in 1925 and has undergone name and stylistic changes since. In 1972 the Little Green Sprout appeared as the Giant's apprentice.

In 1979 Green Giant merged with the Pillsbury Company and in 2001 was acquired by General Mills. The Green Giant brand was acquired by B&G Foods in 2015.

Green Giant and How He's Grown

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Materials include historical and background information; minutes, annual reports, audit reports, tax records, and appraisal reports; financial records; payroll and employee earning records; papers of certain executives; Research Department records; advertising and promotional materials; and product labels and packaging. Included as well are records of subsidiaries and related companies Bama Meats, Inc., Blue Mountain Canneries, Cokato Canning Company, Cosgrove Company, Gopher State Canneries, the Green Giant Foundation, Le Sueur Development Associates, Inc., Minnesota Valley Corporation, Green Giant garden centers, and various restaurants.

Numbers were assigned to the volumes by staff at the Le Sueur County Historical Society. Those numbers have been retained, and are so indicated in the Detailed Description section of this finding aid.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Executive Files
		Historical and Background Information
		Governance Records
		Financial Records
		Payroll Records
		Engineering Department
		Research Department
		Operating Records
		Public Relations
		Building/Structure Files
		Market Research Department
		Advertising and Promotion
		Product Labels and Packaging
		Litigation: Green Giant Company v. Jolly Giant Systems, Inc.
		Blueprints, Maps, and Flow Charts
		Predecessor, Subsidiary, and Related Companies
		Green Giant Foundation Scholarship Program Records
		Employees
		Newsletters
		Photographs
		Audiovisual
		Miscellaneous Files

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Access Restrictions:

Scholarship program records may contain private student data. Records with private information are closed for 90 years from date of last entry in the record. Researchers must apply for permission to use these records. Please consult the reference staff for more information.

Payroll and employee earnings records may contain social security numbers. Records are closed for 100 years, unless proof of death is provided. Please consult the reference staff for more information.

The audiovisual material in copyright in this collection are not available online, but can be accessed upon request for use in the Gale Family Library reading room. Please consult reference staff for more information.

Use Restrictions:

This collection may contain copyrighted and trademarked materials. Researchers wishing to publicly use images of items may need to seek permission from both the Minnesota Historical Society and the copyright and/or trademark holders. Please consult the reference staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Green Giant Company records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Provenance:

The records were donated to the Minnesota Historical Society by the Le Sueur County Historical Society after several years as a part of its collections following the closure of the Company's Le Sueur operations in the 1980s.

Location of Master Files:

Digital masters of audio, film, and video are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.

The original audio and videocassettes were disposed after they were digitally reformatted into WAV and MOV files.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 17,545; 17,723

Processing Information:

Legacy Amendment logo

Processed by: The Le Sueur County Historical Society.

Addition by: David B. Peterson, February 2020.

Digitized by: April Rodriguez, February 2020; Saving Tape Media Conversion, January 2020 to June 2021; The MediaPreserve, February 2022.

Digitization encoding by: Joseph Larsen.

Digital audio and video transferred from the master physical cassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (February 2020). Master film reels transferred to digital video by Saving Tape Media Conversion (January 2020 to June 2021). 35mm film reel and video reel transferred to digital video by The MediaPreserve (February 2022).

Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.

Catalog ID number: 990089335030104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

EXECUTIVE FILES

Location

Box

141.K.8.3B

Paul Benson, Public Relations Department:

Subject files, C-R, 1960-1962.

Includes press releases, memos, correspondence, telegrams, speeches, association memberships and meetings, conference, Nibletter stories, lists of photographs and films, trade publications, industry reports, plant closings and expansions, plant tours, minutes of production meetings, public relations programs and advertising, consumer letters, service award programs, and other public relations materials.

Location

Box

141.K.8.4F

Subject files, R-W, 1960-1962. 17 folders.

Printed materials removed from program files, 1962.

Clipping files: A-W, 1962. 41 folders.

Include newspapers and trade publications from United States Green Giant plant locations, Minnesota towns, the Wall Street Ticker,and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle.

Location

Box

141.K.8.2F

Pack orders and billing reports, 1962.

Edward B. Cosgrove, Fine Foods of Canada, Ltd., and Empire Foods of Canada:

Litigation records, 1936-1940. 2 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.8.5B

Blue Mountain Canneries, undated, 1934-1947.

Fine Foods of Canada Ltd.:

On December 11, 1953, Fine Foods of Canada Ltd. became Green Giant of Canada Ltd.

Fine Foods, 1936-1939. 4 folders.

Canadian situation, 1939-1940. 2 folders.

Advertising and letters to merchants, 1942.

Preliminary repair budget: Tecumseh, 1942.

Preliminary repair budget: Ste. Martine, 1942.

General, 1942.

Shipping orders issued, 1942-1943.

John Wall, 1942.

Advertising and letters to merchants, 1943.

Auditor's report, 1943.

General, 1943.

John Wall, 1943.

Advertising and letters to merchants, 1944.

Board and shareholders meetings, 1944.

Budget: Tecumseh and Ste. Martine, 1944.

General, 1944.

Shipping orders issued, 1943-1944.

John Wall, 1944.

Advertising and letters to merchants, 1945.

Area survey: St. Mary's district, 1945.

Budget: Tecumseh and Ste. Martine, 1945.

General and directors and shareholders meetings, 1945.

Shipping orders issued, 1945-1946.

John Wall, 1945.

Advertising and letters to merchants, 1946.

Area survey: St. Mary's district, 1946.

Auditor's report, 1946.

Budget: Tecumseh and Ste. Martine, 1946.

General and directors and shareholders meetings, 1946.

John Wall, 1946.

General and directors and shareholders meetings, 1947.

John Wall, 1947.

Advertising and letters to merchants, 1945-1948.

Auditor's report, 1948.

General and directors and shareholders meetings and Ben Ormseth, 1948.

Report of St. Mary's project, 1948.

Survey Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1948.

John Wall, 1948.

Report on St. Mary's project, 1948-1949.

Auditor's report, 1949.

John Wall, 1949.

Advertising, 1950.

General, 1950.

Shipping orders issued, 1950.

John Wall, 1950.

Location

Box

148.D.15.2F-2

Certificate of election to University of Minnesota board of regents, 1955.

Location

Box

141.K.8.1B

William F. Dietrich:

Dietrich became president of Green Giant in 1953 and vice chairman of the board in 1960.

Papers, 1930-1982. 13 folders.

Correspondence, reports, minutes of the board, annual reports and related literature, clippings, corporate philosophy and policy statements, lists of stockholders, management strategies, and other records documenting corporate operations and management.

Location

Box

142.C.7.8

125

Truck route schedules, undated, 1947-1948.

Location

Box

141.K.8.1B

L.E. Felton:

Harris Trust & Savings Bank regarding MVCC/Green Giant Company Retirement Trust, 1946-1957. 12 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.11.7B

Correspondence files, 1953-1954. 62 folders.

John McGovern:

McGovern was vice-president of Green Giant from 1951-1955 and was president of the National Canners Association.

Scrapbooks, 1930s-1964. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.8.6F

Al Maas:

Albert C. Maas was manager of statistical analysis.

OR 114B. Area of production: Asparagus simulation run no. 1. 1960s.

"OR" signifies Operations Research.

OR 121A. Long-term planning: Sweet corn - Canning - U.S.A.

OR 122A. Long-term planning: Sweet peas - Canning - U.S.A.

OR 129. Mushroom shipping study.

OR 114. Area of production: Asparagus. 2 folders.

OR 129. Production planning: Scheduling.

OR 109. Preliminary worksheets.

OR 109A. Production scheduling solutions (both runs) and listing of input cards.

OR 111. Climatic studies.

OR 112. Mushroom production scheduling.

OR 106. Interim shipping program (revised).

OR 107. Area of production study.

OR 108. Distribution study.

OR 103-A. Interim shipping program.

OR 103. Interim shipping problem.

OR 129. Mushroom shipping study.

OR 116A. Freight budget.

OR 115. Interplanting: Freight model.

OR 116. Interim shipping program, 1961-1962. 2 folders.

OR 119A. Long-term planning: Early June peas - Canning - U.S.A. 3 folders.

OR 116B. Interim shipping program, 1961-1962.

Location

Box

141.K.8.7B

OR 116C. Interim shipping program.

OR 118. Program testing model production scheduling.

OR 119. Long-term planning - Early June peas canning and freezing.

OR 119A. Long-term planning - Early June peas - Canning - U.S.A.: Sales requirements.

OR 114C. Area of production - Asparagus simulation run no. 2.

OR 120A. Long-term planning - Sweet corn - Canning - Canada.

OR 119B. Long-term planning - Early June peas - Freezing - U.S.A.: Complete file.

OR 119A. Long-term planning - Early June peas - Canning - U.S.A.: File notes, reports, memoranda.

Advertising Research Foundation proceedings, 1962. 1 volume.

Operations research and electronic computing presentation, 1960. 1 volume.

Green Giant Company objectives, 1960. 1 volume.

Promotional analysis of Green Giant products, June 11, 1965.

Proceedings of the third meeting of the 1620 users group, Midwestern region, 1961.

American Statistical Association proceedings, 1962, 1964. 2 volumes.

IBM Agricultural Symposium, May 10-13, 1965. 1 volume.

IBM Food Processing Symposium, December 9, 1963. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.15.3B

119

Jim Bartz:

Bartz was a research agronomist. His files mainly relate to Green Giant's home and garden center business.

Attitudes toward Green Giant's home and garden centers, 1972.

Bank.

Corporate venture reports, 1969-1971.

Franchise.

Garden Center Task Force: Appendix, 1973-1974. 1 volume.

Green Giant Garden Center survey, 1970.

Home and garden centers financial data, undated. 1 volume.

Home and garden profit centers, 1973.

Horticultural Research Institute report, 1969.

Lawn and garden center consumer survey, 1971.

Marketing plan, 1971. 1 volume.

Notes on management presentation, July 7, 1971.

Operating plans, 1971-1973. 1 volume and 2 folders.

Outdoor living, 1969.

Policy and procedure manual, 1972-1974. 1 volume.

Publicity, 1970-1974.

Quarterly reports, 1970, 1972. 2 volumes.

Reports, 1970-1971.

Earnings estimate status, budget, variance reports, earnings summaries.

Reports on Landfall and New Hope locations, 1970.

Singer system, 1974.

Slides, 1971.

Task force memoranda, 1972-1973.

Task force reports, 1972-1973. 2 volumes.

Venture review, February 17, 1971. 1 volume.

Venture status and review, September 1, 1971. 1 volume.

Warehouse manual, undated.

Wine making equipment, 1973. 1 volume.

Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda, 1972.

Location

Box

141.K.9.6F

J.M. Day (Marketing):

Japanese market investigation, 1973.

Marketing manual, 1974.

Marketing planning seminar, 1973.

Memoranda, January 1973-October 1974. 3 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.20.1B

128

Roy Gritzmacher files:

Corn planting plot results, 1975-1976.

Corn hybrid testing data, 1969-1973.

Personnel, 1954-1973.

Job description, undated.

Corn meetings, 1968-1971.

General corn breeding information, 1951-1973.

Old seed corn production, 1954-1955.

Seed corn production, 1960-1971. 2 folders.

Foreign inbreds CXO, 1957-1972.

Hour history projects, 1941-1950.

Seed corn breeding, 1931-1967.

Competitive hybrids, 1960-1972.

Florida program, 1972-1974. 2 folders.

Letters from retirement party, 1973.

Historical literature, 1950-1973.

Production data, 1955-1973. 2 folders.

Field corn inbreds, undated.

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Box

141.K.11.8F

Canning industry trends and profile, 1975, 1978. 2 folders.

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Box

141.K.15.5B

121

Pillsbury directory, 1986. 1 volume.

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HISTORICAL AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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141.K.8.8F

Minnesota Valley Canning Company organizational chart, approximately 1939-1955. 1 volume.

Printed histories, 1953, 1978-1979.

History book, 1951-1953. 5 folders.

Includes company histories, drafts and information about production and distribution.

Company history, 1930s-1980s. 26 folders.

Includes information about trademarks, anniversaries, products, films, corporate organization and general company history; also includes New York Stock Exchange listing.

Biographies, 1930s-1970s. 13 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.8.2F

Labels, 1920s-1930s.

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141.K.8.8F

Plant history, 1930s-1970s. 6 folders.

Subsidiaries and acquisitions, undated, 1960s. 4 folders.

60th anniversary research questionnaires for Nibletter, 1963. 2 folders.

Location

Box

148.C.2.8F-1

Company history scrapbooks:

Volume 317. 1925-1943. 1 volume.

Volume 318. 1929-1956. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.9.1B

Electric light account, undated, 1918-1922.

Watertown operating budget (1923), undated, August 1923-January 1924.

Closing books, December 1924.

Cokato trial balances, 1925.

Gopher State Canneries opening of new accounts, 1928.

Inventory, December 1921-January 1924.

Plant additions reports to trust company, 1926, 1928.

Inventory, December 1926.

Plant values Gopher State Canneries, January 1928.

Journal entry plant values, 1926.

Reports to appraisal company, 1934.

Advance report Wisconsin canning plants, 1929.

Appraisal report - grand summary Minnesota Valley Canning Company Wisconsin properties, 1930.

National production statistics, 1915-1926.

Annual pack reports, 1917-1930.

Swells, 1923-1924.

Miscellaneous sales data, 1919-1924.

Sales data, 1923-1924.

1917 analysis sales history, 1922.

Crop insurance, 1925.

Group insurance, 1925.

Farm diagrams, undated.

Acreage, 1922-1923.

1920 farm cost analysis, approximately 1921.

Individual farm analysis, approximately 1921.

1922 farming operation budget, 1920-1922.

Farming Department miscellany, approximately 1918-1920.

1922 farming operations, 1922-1923.

1923 farming operations, 1923.

Analysis: 1924 farming operations, 1924-1925.

Corn purchases, 1923.

Corn crop statistics, 1918-1927.

Production schedule: Corn, 1924.

Pea crop statistics, 1918-1925.

Pea growers record, 1918-1925, 1931.

Pea yield by growers and fields, 1926.

Pea planting schedule, 1918-1922.

Pea planting dates, 1923-1924.

Pea planting schedule, 1922, 1924.

Pea planting record, 1923-1924.

Pea planting dates, 1925.

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Box

141.K.8.8F

Plant inspections, approximately 1930, 1959-1960. 2 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.9.1B

Income taxes, Minnesota property values, 1933.

Location

Box

148.C.2.8F-2

Citations and awards:

Advertising Federation of America, 1959.

Certificates, 1972-1983.

Location

Box

141.K.8.2F

Miscellaneous printed materials:

Christmas cards, 1935, 1962-1973. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous printeds, 1920s.

Location

Box

141.K.16.1B

124

Pueblocito Del Mainz, 1929.

Canteen pictures: Fox Lake Wisconsin, Le Sueur, undated.

Printed material, ad-libbings, 1969.

Golden anniversary, 1956.

Retirement reunion, 1986.

Annual report of a study of crop production costs and returns in south central Minnesota, 1948.

Company-produced booklets for employees, 1954-1974.

New yorker: "Poet of the pea patch."

New yorker: "Eureka! Niblets."

Pea ad.

Kounty Kist corn.

New yorker: "It only hurts when he ho-ho-hos."

July trade ad.

Communications of an advertising man, 1961. 1 volume.

Advertising: its role in modern marketing, 1969. 1 volume.

Pillsbury's best: a company history from 1869, 1985. 1 volume.

Can making terminology, 1978. 1 volume.

California's finest: the history of Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte brand, 1982. 1 volume.

Agricultural experiment station bulletins, 1963-1970.

National program for conservation of crop germ plasm, 1971. 1 volume.

Regional pricing, undated. 1 volume.

Glossary of terms: packers cans, approximately 1950.

Organization charts, undated.

Green Giant Company project volumes: cataloged, drafts.

Green Giant inventory.

Green Giant historical background and booklet, 1974-1978. 3 folders.

Tin can diagram on foam board, 1987.

Blank labels: Whole asparagus spears, 1976.

Marketing and promotions.

Miscellaneous news releases, 1961-1974.

Dawn Fresh mushroom steak sauce, undated.

Location

Box

141.K.10.6F

Record book, 1916.

Scrapbook, 1940s-1950s.

Minnesota Valley Canning Company interplant label transfers, label history, 1928.

H. M. Smyth Company label history, 1930s-1950s.

Scrapbook, 1945-1950.

Repair record sheets, 1928-1929.

Financial data, 1935.

Pack ad territory lists 1-23 by broker's name, May 18, 1944.

Minnesota Valley Canning Company monthly budget reports, 1926-1927. 1 volume.

Public relations, 1965-1973. 3 folders.

Industrial relations: Water tower sign program, 1967-1968.

Personnel: Office directory, 1971.

Unidentified newsletter, May 1, 1945.

The drummer's best newsletter, 1969.

The Pillsbury reporter, 1979.

Mini nibletter, 1969.

Commodity code manual, 1961-1968.

Product and label inventories, 1968, 1971. 2 folders.

Product orders, 1968.

Product inventory and codes, 1968.

Foreign labor records, undated, 1950.

Miscellaneous blueprints, 1934.

Scrapbook notes making reference to Green Giant, Jolly Green Giant, etc., 1960s.

L. E. Felton, Green Giant retirement trust, 1961.

Plans of recapitalization, 1960. 2 volumes.

Public relations proposal for Green Giant Company, 1970. 1 volume.

Stock and stockholders information, 1965-1978.

Edward Cosgrove: Waterhen Lodge bylaws and membership, undated.

Le Sueur cocktail mushrooms: Earl Youngren correspondence, 1961-1962.

Company policy manual, undated, 1950.

Location

Box

141.K.15.1B

117

Oral histories:

Roger Bengtson oral histories. 64 audiocassettes.

Location

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141.K.15.2F

118

Dan Osell oral histories. 21 audiocassettes.

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141.K.20.2F

129

Corporate histories, undated. 2 folders.

Anniversary booklets, 1928-1978. 3 folders.

Fact books, 1966-1978. 3 folders.

Green Giant today, undated, 1968-1971.

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GOVERNANCE RECORDS

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141.K.9.7B

Minute books 1-3, 1903-1932. 3 volumes.

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141.K.12.2F

Annual reports, 1930-1953, 1964-1971, 1983. 4 folders.

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141.K.8.8F

Green Giant directory, approximately 1978-1985.

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148.C.7.4F-1

Stockholders lists, 1954, 1958. 3 folders.

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141.K.9.4F

Shareholders: Miscellany, 1963-1975.

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141.K.9.2F

Audit reports:

Volumes 102-114, 114.5. 1918-1928, 1930-1940. 15 volumes.

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141.K.9.3B

Volumes 115-120, 120.1, 120.2, 121-125. 1941-1943, 1945-1953. 13 volumes.

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141.K.9.4F

Volumes 126-128, 128.1. 1954-1955, 1958. 4 volumes.

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141.K.9.5B

Federal and state corporate income tax returns and federal revenue agents' reports:

1909-1943.

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141.K.9.6F

1943-1952. 12 folders.

Personnel policies and benefits, 1960s-1970s.

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141.K.9.4F

Appraisal reports and plant accounts prepared for American Appraisal Company, 1918-1938. 9 folders.

Presentation to New York Society of Security Analysts, 1966.

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FINANCIAL RECORDS

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148.C.7.4F-2

Journal and cash books:

No. 1. March 1903-February 1914.

No. 2. February 1914-September 1917.

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148.C.7.5B-1

No. 3. September 1917-December 1919.

No. 4. January 1920-December 1925.

No. 5. January 1926-March 1929.

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148.C.7.5B-2

No. 6. March 1929-March 1930.

General ledger, cash books, bank journals:

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141.K.20.3B

130

Minnesota Valley Canning Company general ledger, 1903-1910. 1 volume.

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141.K.9.8F

Volume 13. General ledger, 1912-1914. 1 volume.

Volume 12. General ledger, 1914-1919. 1 volume.

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148.C.7.6F-1

Volume 11. General ledger, 1919-1925. 1 volume.

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141.K.14.2F

Volume 259. General ledger, 1928-1931. 1 volume.

Includes Gopher State Canning and Blue Earth Canning companies.

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141.K.9.7B

Ledger, 1932-1935.

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148.C.7.5B-2

Volume 16. General journal, December 1919-April 1926.

Volume 19. Cashbook, June 1904-January 1915.

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148.C.7.6F-1

Volume 17. Cashbook, January-December 1919.

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141.K.9.7B

Volume 21. Cashbook, March-May 1943.

Volume 18. Bank journal, January 1920-December 1925.

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148.D.16.1B-1

Current ledgers:

Volume 10. 1919-1925. 1 volume.

Volume 9. 1925-1927. 1 volume.

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148.C.15.8F-1

Assorted financial volumes:

Volume 29. Purchase journal. 1921-1924. 1 volume.

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148.D.16.2F-2

107

Volume 252. Purchasing journal. August 1926-March 1930. 1 volume.

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148.E.16.3B

110

Volume 268. Daily cash receipts, April 1932-March 1936. 1 volume.

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142.F.1.2F

Volume 224. Daily cash sheets, 1936-1939.

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141.K.13.7B

Volume 258. Daily cash receipts, April 1946-March 1948. 1 volume.

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141.K.14.7B

109

Volume 256. Daily cash receipts, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

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141.K.13.8F

Volume 257. Daily cash receipts, April 1951-June 1952. 1 volume.

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139.K.1.7

Volume 260. Sales and shipment register: Corn, 1941-1942. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.8

Volume 261. Sales and shipment register: Peas, 1941-1942. 1 volume, unboxed.

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141.K.14.8F

111

Volume 266. Transfer ledger. 1926-1930. 1 volume.

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141.K.9.8F

Sales records:

Volume 27. Sales journal. 1920-1925. 1 volume.

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141.K.13.7B

Volume 272. Sales register. 1927-1929. 1 volume.

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148.D.15.7B-2

Volume 269. Sales register, 1935. 1 volume.

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141.K.14.1B

Volume 245. Sales ledger, 1928-1930. 1 volume.

Volume 246. Sales ledger, 1931-1932. 1 volume.

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141.K.13.8F

Volume 255. Sales ledger, 1940-1947. 1 volume.

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139.K.1.9

Volume 262. Retail price report, 1955. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.10

Volume 263. Retail price report, 1956. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.11

Volume 264. Retail price report, 1957. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.12

Volume 265. Retail price report, 1958. 1 volume, unboxed.

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141.K.9.8F

Invoice registers:

Volume 14. 1906-1912. 1 volume.

Volume 15. 1926. 1 volume.

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148.D.15.5B-1

Volume 271. 1936-1938. 1 volume.

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148.D.15.7B-2

Volume 270. 1938-1939. 1 volume.

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148.C.7.6F-1

Voucher registers:

Volume 31. No. 1. 1912-1914. 1 volume.

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148.C.7.6F-2

Volume 30. No. 2. 1915-1922. 1 volume.

Volume 32. No. 3. 1922-1926. 1 volume.

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148.E.16.2F

112

Volume 254. 1930-1932. 1 volume.

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148.C.2.2F

114

Volume 267. 1933-1936. 1 volume.

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148.E.16.1B

115

Volume 253. April 1936-April 1937. 1 volume.

[0.4 cubic feet empty, oversize]

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148.C.9.6F

100

Volume 250. April 1937-April 1938. 1 volume.

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148.D.16.3B-1

113

Volume 200. 1947-1949. 1 volume.

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148.D.16.2F-1

106

Volume 251. 1949-1951. 1 volume.

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148.C.15.8F-1

Volume 223. Sales, voucher and cash register, 1933-1935.

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148.C.2.4

Check and voucher registers:

Volumes 201-204. May 1938-March 1942. 4 volumes.

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139.K.1.1

Volume 205. April 1942-March 1943. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.2

Volume 206. April 1943-March 1944. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.3

Volume 207. April 1944-March 1945. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.4

Volume 208. April 1949-March 1950. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.5

Volume 209. April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume, unboxed.

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139.K.1.6

Volume 210. April-June 1951. 1 volume, unboxed.

Location

Box

148.D.15.8F-1

Daily cash sheets, Iowa farm ledger, account book, cash receipts:

Volume 194. Daily cash sheets (sales register), 1932. 1 volume.

Includes cash disbursements and receipts at Blue Earth (1929-1930), Le Sueur daily pea sieve record (1924-1928), and Le Sueur pea cost records (1924).

Location

Box

148.D.15.8F-2

Volume 195. Cash receipts, January-July 1933. 1 volume.

Includes customer ledger (1931-1932).

Location

Box

148.D.15.8F-1

Volume 196. Iowa County farm ledger (cash receipts and disbursements), 1952-1953. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.13.5B

Volume 197. Account ledger, 1929-1938. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.13.6F

Volume 198. Account ledger, 1927-1934. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.F.1.1B

111

Volume 199. Cash receipts and disbursements, 1926-1931. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.12.1B

Sales and cash receipts:

Volume 34. Sales and cash receipts, April 1951-March 1952. 1 volume.

Volume 35. Sales and cash receipts, April-July 1952. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.12.2F

Volume 36. Blue Earth, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 37. Cokato, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 38. Glencoe, March 1949-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 39. Le Sueur, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 40. Montgomery, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 41. Watertown, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 42. Winsted, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 43. Winthrop, April 1948-March 1950. 1 volume.

Volume 44. Blue Earth, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 45. Cokato, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 46. Glencoe, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 47. Le Sueur, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 48. Montgomery, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 49. Watertown, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 50. Winsted, April 1950-March 1951. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.5B-1

Volume 221. Voucher register, debits/credits, July 1924-July 1926.

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PAYROLL RECORDS

Access restricted. Closed for 100 years.

Most registers break down recorded information by plant and then into categories that include general, factory, farm, truck. Separate payrolls were kept for men, women, and foreign laborers. Information for each worker includes name, hours worked, hourly wages, deductions for taxes, deductions for board and other items. Of special interest are registers that document foreign migrant labor. These also separate workers according to their place of origin including Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica.

Location

139.K.1.15

Payroll registers:

Volume 214. 1937. 1 volume, unboxed.

Location

139.K.1.16

Volume 215. January 1938-April 1939. 1 volume, unboxed.

Montgomery, Blue Earth, Cokato.

Location

139.K.1.17

Volume 216. January 1938-April 1939. 1 volume, unboxed.

Le Sueur, Saint Paul warehouse, Winsted, Watertown, Winthrop.

Location

139.K.1.18

Volume 217. 1939. 1 volume, unboxed.

Cokato, Montgomery, Blue Earth.

Location

139.K.1.19

Volume 218. 1939. 1 volume, unboxed.

Le Sueur, Saint Paul warehouse, Winsted, Watertown, Winthrop.

Location

139.K.1.20

Volume 219. 1940. 1 volume, unboxed.

Blue Earth, Montgomery, Cokato.

Location

Box

142.C.9.3

Volume 220. 1940. 1 volume.

Le Sueur, Saint Paul warehouse, Winsted, Watertown, Winthrop.

Volume 236. 1941. 1 volume.

Blue Earth, Montgomery, Cokato.

Volume 237. 1941. 1 volume.

Le Sueur, Saint Paul warehouse, Winsted, Watertown, Winthrop.

Location

Box

148.D.15.3B-1

Employee earning records:

Volume 181. All plants, 1942-1944. 1 volume.

Volume 182. 1946. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.3B-2

Volume 183. 1947. 1 volume.

Volume 184. 1948. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.C.9.4

Volume 235. 1948. 1 volume.

Location

139.K.1.13

Volume 211. 1949. 1 volume, unboxed.

Watertown, Winsted, Winthrop, Blue Earth, Saint Paul warehouse, Glencoe.

Location

139.K.1.14

Volume 212. 1949. 1 volume, unboxed.

Le Sueur, Cokato, Montgomery, Z office.

Location

Box

142.C.9.2

Volume 213. 1949. 1 volume.

Central Wisconsin, Rock Valley, Iowa.

Location

Box

148.D.15.5B-2

Volume 238. 1949. 1 volume.

Bahamians.

Volume 240. 1950. 1 volume.

Foreign laborers, Puerto Ricans, Watertown Jamaicans, L.I., Barbados.

Volume 239. 1950-1951. 1 volume.

Le Sueur.

Volume 241. 1952. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.6F-1

Volume 242. 1953. 1 volume.

Volume 234. 1954. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.12.3B

Volume 231. 1954. 1 volume.

Le Sueur, Cokato.

Volume 232. 1954. 1 volume.

Montgomery, Watertown, Winsted.

Volume 233. 1954. 1 volume.

Blue, Earth, Winthrop, Glencoe, V office.

Location

Box

148.D.15.6F-1

Volume 243. 1955. 1 volume.

Volume 244. 1956. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.3B-2

Employee earning records, all plants, quarterly earning summary:

Volume 185. 1956. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.12.1B

Volume 186. 1959. 1 volume.

Employee time books:

Volume 191. 1960. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.12.2F

Volume 192. 1962. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.4F-1

Employee earning records:

Volume 187. Locations 30-90, 1963. 1 volume.

Volume 188. All employees by badge number (01-22), 1964. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.4F-2

Volume 189. All employees by plant (30-90), 1964. 1 volume.

Volume 190. 1965. 1 volume.

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ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Location

Box

141.K.15.4F

120

Christian Martin files:

Martin was equipment and development engineering manager, General Engineering Department.

Miscellaneous field and trip reports, undated.

Growers maps: Montgomery and Blue Earth, undated, 1952, 1957.

Field engineering services, undated, 1956-1956.

Field and farm equipment, December 31, 1953.

Competitive crop analysis for contracting purposes, 1949-1955.

Training materials, 1952-1956.

Production statistics, 1951-1952.

Proposal for agricultural engineering application at Green Giant Company, 1949-1953.

Engineering and canning conferences, undated, 1948-1957.

Miscellaneous field and engineering, February 5, 1953. 1 volume.

Project X-112. Report of 1953 work with proposals for 1954, 1954-1956. 3 volumes.

Project Y-22 plans, reports, and proposals, 1951. 1 volume.

Mechanical corn harvester's leadman's manual, 1954. 1 volume.

The oscillating thresher and separator, 1951. 1 volume.

Proposed purchase or long-range lease of tractors for field service purposes, 1952.

Preliminary operating budget, undated.

Leather business card case with cards, 1950-1953.

Truck drivers, 1922-1928.

Analysis of capital, earnings, and deductions, undated, 1951-1959.

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RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

Location

Box

141.K.10.1B

Research notebooks:

Document equipment and instrument testing, waste disposal, mineral and vitamin studies, color and flavor retention. Includes potentiometer standardization tests. Researchers include Eugene Guy, Ting Chien, H.R. Engebretson, Kenneth Kirby, Helen Williams, Harlyn Halvorson, John Roslansky, Larry Schweitz, Bob Lavine, Earl Anthony and Robert Turner.

Volumes 52-54. Ascorbic acid, 1947-1948. 3 volumes.

Volumes 55-59. Carotene, 1947-1948. 5 volumes.

Volume 60. Choline 1947. 1 volume.

Volume 61. Cream style corn, 1949. 1 volume.

Volume 62. Lipids analyses, 1947. 1 volume.

Volumes 63-72. Niacin, 1947-1948. 10 volumes.

Volumes 73-84. Riboflavin, 1947-1948. 11 volumes.

Volumes 84-86. Thiamine, 1947-1948. 3 volumes.

Volume 87. Miscellaneous assignments, 1947. 1 volume.

Volume 88. Miscellaneous peas - ascorbic, 1947-1949. 1 volume.

Volume 89. Miscellaneous - folic acid, 1947, 1949. 1 volume.

Volume 90. Miscellaneous, 1947-1949. 1 volume.

Volume 91. Miscellaneous - thiamine, 1948. 1 volume.

Volumes 92-96. Miscellaneous, 1948-1949. 5 volumes.

Volume 97. Miscellaneous blancher waste water recovery, 1948-1949. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.8.7B

Consumer Guidance Panel records, 1963-1965. 6 folders.

Correspondence, reports, questionnaires, studies and related records document consumer marketing research to test products and solicit consumer response. Files include the history and background of the first study which was done at the request of the Research Division.

Location

Box

141.K.10.2F

Roger Bengtson research files, 1970s. 12 folders.

Research into the company's history. Includes photocopies of early corporate documents.

Walter R. Bechtold files, 1960s.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers gathered by Bechtold, more personal in nature.

Location

Box

141.K.9.6F

Principles and methods of instructing by Thomas J. Sullivan. 1 volume.

Principles of experimentation by J.G. Martland, Food Science Department, 1976. 1 volume.

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OPERATING RECORDS

Location

Box

148.C.7.4F-1

Pea and corn master grading records:

Peas and corn, 1940-1942. 3 folders.

Location

Box

148.C.15.8F-2

Corn, 1942-1945. 4 folders.

Peas, 1941-1943. 3 folders.

Location

Box

148.C.17.6F-1

Peas, 1944-1945. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.10.3B

Volumes 319-333. Competitive crop analysis books, 1953-1967. 15 volumes.

Insect and weed control reports, 1958-1959. 3 folders.

Volume 339. Operating reports, 1959. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.10.4F

Volumes 340-342. Maturity control standards, 1959-1960, 1963. 3 volumes.

Volumes 334-338. Corn pack reports, 1962-1964. 5 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.8.2F

Growing area map, 1956.

Fixed price contracts, 1968.

Location

Box

141.K.11.8F

Production unit reports, 1970s-1980s. 1 folder and 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.15.4F

121

Art Aufdorhor files:

Farm time reports, 1951-1953. 3 volumes.

Iowa Division financial statements, March 31, 1953. 1 volume.

Le Sueur corn growers directory, 1953.

Plant departmental daily labor reports, 1953.

Production Department procedures and time reports, corn and pea processing, charts, undated, 1947, 1952.

Production and time reports, 1953.

Planting rates for peas, 1945.

Shelled pea truck daily labor reports and truck route schedules, undated.

Trucking, 1947.

Viner leadman's manual, 1953.

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

Location

Box

141.K.10.4F

Nibletter study report and personal interviews, 1956. 3 folders.

Report outlines purposes, objectives, methodology, analyses and conclusions. The study measured the Nibletter's readership, importance, value and community attitudes toward the company. Synopses of interviews with community leaders in eight Midwestern towns; include attitudes toward the Nibletter, community information and community relations. The interviews are indexed and offer minimal analysis. Four town interviews are missing.

Location

Box

141.K.10.5B

Promotional preview books, 1963-1966. 12 volumes.

Bi-monthly advance previews of promotional program. Included are sales bulletins, distributor lists, copies of television advertising schedules and product fact sheets.

News releases, 1966-1972. 9 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.14.3B

101

News clippings, June 1964-1973. 16 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.10.5B

Here's the picture, 1967-1968. 2 folders.

Informational bulletins issued by the Sales Department to brokers sometimes on a daily basis. Files frequently include copies of advertisements.

Location

Box

141.K.20.2F

129

Tours, undated, 1973-1979.

Location

Box

141.K.20.3B

130

Promotional materials for external distribution, undated, 1990. 4 folders.

Recipe books, undated, 1990-1994. 2 folders.

Location

Box

142.C.7.8

125

Play cookware and range top set box lid, undated.

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BUILDING/STRUCTURE FILES

Location

Box

141.K.10.6F

Administration and research buildings, construction files, 1945-1947. 9 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.10.2F

Blueprint of Le Sueur office building first floor, 1945.

Blueprints of first and second floors of administrative building, 1966.

Location

Box

141.K.8.2F

Photographs, aerial views of plants, bound and mounted. undated. 2 folders.

Location

Box

142.C.7.8

125

Aerial views of plants, undated, 1951.

Location

Box

148.C.17.6F-1

Aerial photographs of plants, 1961. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.2F-2

Plot plans and aerial photographs of buildings and plants, 1950s-1960s. 1 volume.

Miscellany, undated.

Location

Box

148.C.15.8F-1

Plant and property registers, property depreciation schedules:

Volume 225. 1947-1960. 1 volume.

Indiana Mushroom Company; Specification Oil and Supply Company.

Location

Box

148.C.17.6F-2

Volume 226. No. 2. 1947-1961. 1 volume.

Dawn Fresh Company; Michigan Mushroom Company.

Volume 227. No. 1. 1947-1961. 1 volume.

Dawn Fresh Company; Michigan Mushroom Company.

Location

Box

148.C.18.2F-1

Volume 228. 1947-1961. 1 volume.

Wisconsin Mushroom Company; Illinois Mushroom Company; Dawn Mushroom Farms, Inc.

Volume 229. 1948-1961. 1 volume.

Olympia Mushroom Farms, Inc.

Location

Box

148.C.18.2F-2

Volume 230. 1947-1961. 1 volume.

Aurora Mushroom Farms, Inc.; Aurora Frozen Foods Company

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MARKET RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

Location

Box

148.D.15.2F-2

Market index study by sales territory, March 1960. 1 volume.

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ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION

Location

Box

148.D.15.2F-2

Marketing and promotional items.

Location

Box

141.K.10.7B

Pack ads:

Volume 129. Advertising and miscellaneous reports, 1927.

Volume 130. Cooperative advertising account, 1930-1931.

Volumes 131-137. 1925-1932. 7 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.10.8F

Volumes 138-143. 1933-1938. 6 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.11.1B

Volumes 144-148. 1939-1941. 5 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.11.2F

Volumes 149-153. 1942-1944. 5 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.11.3B

Volumes 154-158. 1944-1946. 5 volumes.

Location

Box

141.K.11.4F

Volumes 159-160. 1946, 1959. 2 volumes.

Volume 161. 1919-1950. 1 volume.

Historical pack records.

Volume 162. 1919-1950. 1 volume.

Historical pack records.

Volume 163. 1941-1940. 1 volume.

Historical pea and corn pack records.

Volume 164. undated. 1 volume.

FILL pack reports.

Volume 165. 1950-1952. 1 volume.

Crop and acreage reports (1950-1952) and plant contract reports (1952).

Volume 166. 1953. 1 volume.

Crop and acreage reports.

Volume 167. 1954. 1 volume.

Acreage progress reports.

Volume 168. 1954-1955. 1 volume.

Acreage contracting reports.

Location

Box

141.K.11.5B

Volume 169. 1955. 1 volume.

Acreage progress reports.

Volume 170. 1956-1957. 1 volume.

Summary acreage and crop progress reports.

Volume 171. 1957. 1 volume.

Acreage and silage progress reports.

Volume 172. 1957. 1 volume.

Acreage contracting reports.

Volume 173. 1954-1958. 1 volume.

Historical cost and overage summary.

Volume 174. 1950-1954.

Historical: Book 1 of 2.

Volume 175. 1950-1958. 2 folders.

Historical: Book 2 of 2.

Volume 176. 1928-1960. 1 volume.

Historical spoilage reports.

Volume 177. 1960-1967. 1 volume.

Historical spoilage reports.

Volume 178. undated. 1 volume.

FILL: Filler characteristics, experimental work, corn hearing.

Location

Box

141.K.11.6F

Volume 179. undated. 1 volume.

Historical tendrometer work.

Volume 180. 1965-1966. 1 volume.

Mushrooms.

Location

Box

148.C.19.2F-1

Advertising scrapbooks and pack ad books:

Scrapbooks include company literature, advertising samples, clippings, radio ads, Christmas cards, consumer correspondence and a variety of miscellaneous materials.

Volumes 273-274. 1925-1941. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

148.C.18.2F-2

Volume 275. 1932-1941. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.C.19.2F-2

Volume 276. 1932-1935. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.1.1B-1

Volume 277. 1936-1938. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.1.1B-2

Volume 278. 1939-1940. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.1.2F-1

Volume 279. 1940. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.1.2F-2

Volume 280. 1941-1948. 1 volume.

National magazine reprints.

Volume 281. 1942. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.2.1B-1

Volumes 282-283. 1943-1945. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

148.D.2.1B-2

Volume 284. 1945. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.2.2F-1

Volume 285. 1946. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.2.1B-2

Volume 286. 1943-1948. 1 volume.

Trade paper ads.

Location

Box

148.D.2.2F-2

Volume 287. 1947. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.2.1B-2

Volume 288. approximately 1945-1946. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.2.2F-2

Volume 289. 1948-1949. 1 volume.

Kounty Kist.

Location

Box

148.E.15.3B-2

Volume 290. 1937. 1 volume.

Pack ads and trade ads:

Volumes 291-294. 1949-1951. 4 volumes.

Location

Box

148.D.8.4F-1

Volumes 295-298. 1945-1951. 4 volumes.

Volume 299. 1950. 1 volume.

Kounty Kist.

Volume 300. 1951-1952. 1 volume.

Trade ads.

Location

Box

148.D.8.4F-2

Volume 301. 1952. 1 volume.

Volume 302. 1950. 1 volume.

Kounty Kist.

Volume 303. 1951. 1 volume.

Volume 304. 1952. 1 volume.

Label says 1951.

Volume 305. 1953. 1 volume.

Volume 306. 1954. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.D.15.1B-1

Volumes 307-310. 1955-1960. 4 volumes.

Volume 311. 1964-1965. 1 volume.

Advertising on television, in newspapers, and in magazines.

Volume 312. 1960-1961. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.E.15.3B-1

123

Baked beans, 1968, 1970.

Kites, 1970.

Hiawatha promotion, undated.

Store display signs, undated.

Umbrella, 1970.

Advertising copy and miscellaneous examples, 1937-1939, 1962-1963.

Advertisements, 1959.

Advertising and merchandising, 1957. 1 volume.

Merchandising illustrations, undated. 4 rolls.

Merchandising: Tiber-r-r, Here comes a big one! 1954.

My scrapbook, 1966. 1 volume.

Television advertising program: Hey, Green Giant, what's new besides Ho, Ho, Ho? 1962-1963.

Miscellaneous advertisements, undated, 1960s-1970s.

Location

Box

142.C.9.4

Oversize advertising/promotion.

Location

Box

142.C.7.8

125

Advertising art, undated, 1973. 3 folders.

Kounty Kist peas and corn.

Advertising jingles, undated. 4 audio discs.

Oversize advertising/promotion.

Location

Box

141.K.15.5B

121

Location

Box

148.D.16.1B-2

102

Advertising art work, photographs, etc.,

Mainly from Leo Burnett agency.

Location

Box

148.C.2.8F-2

Volume 316. Advertising awards, 1941-1953. 1 volume.

Advertising: Honeywell computers, 1973.

Location

Box

148.D.15.1B-2

Advertising scrapbooks:

Volume 313. Green Giant featured in advertising, 1967-1969. 1 volume.

Volume 314. Green Giant featured in general interest stories, 1964-1970. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.11.6F

Advertising and promotions for packs and products:

Materials sent to dealers, distributors, and retailers announcing new products and seasonal promotions. Includes copies of ads, consumer information, territory distribution lists, advertising history, recipes, consumer product lists, and store display posters for canned and frozen foods. Includes "Good Things from the Garden" sheet music, promotional information about the Green Giant kite and umbrella, the Green Giant edition of Jack & Jill magazine and information about the Green Giant harmonica shaped like an ear of corn.

Samples arranged by subject, 1963-1979. 14 folders.

Location

Box

148.D.15.2F-1

Samples arranged by subject, 1959-1970s. 7 folders.

Location

Box

148.D.15.1B-2

Samples arranged by subject, 1947-1970s. 6 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.11.6F

New yorker advertisements, 1964-1965. 5 folders.

Christmas cards and gift boxes, 1966-1972. 2 folders.

Le Sueur Golf Course clippings, 1949.

Location

Box

123.G.11.8F-2

131

undated, 1966.

Advertising and merchandising plan-pack, 1939.

Location

Box

141.K.20.2F

129

Advertisements, undated, 1956-1967.

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PRODUCT LABELS AND PACKAGING

Location

Box

141.K.12.4F

Green Giant brands:

April Showers-Petit Point, corn, 1930s-1950s. 145 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.12.5B

Petit Point, peas-Winthrop corn, 1930s-1950s. 36 folders.

Product packed by Green Giant, distributed by other companies: A-Y, 1920s-1960s. 54 folders.

Blank labels, 1970s. 5 folders.

Used for inventory control, 1920s-1960s. 7 folders.

Green Giant brands:

Asparagus-Sweet potatoes, 1920s-1970s. 40 folders.

Label histories, A-I, 1920s-1970s. 13 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.16.2F

Label histories, I-N, 1920s-1970s. 11 folders.

Kounty Kist brand, 1950s-1970s. 15 folders.

Le Sueur brand, 1940s-1970s. 7 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.16.3B

Le Sueur brand, 1940s-1970s. 10 folders.

Trellis brand, 1940s-1970s. 2 folders.

1920s-1970s. 10 volumes.

[0.5 cubic feet empty]

Location

Box

141.K.16.4F

1920s-1970s. 8 volumes.

[0.5 cubic feet empty]

Location

Box

141.K.16.5B

1920s-1970s. 13 volumes.

[0.5 cubic feet empty]

Location

Box

148.D.15.6F-2

Miscellaneous labels. 2 envelopes.

A-G, 1957-1979. 33 folders and 7 envelopes.

Includes Bama, Copeland meats, and Schweigert.

Location

Box

148.D.15.7B-1

G-T, 1960s-1970s.

Location

Box

148.D.15.6F-1

Labels, undated.

Location

Box

141.K.14.4F

103

Frozen food packages.

Location

Box

141.K.14.5B

104

Earl Youngren files:

Asparagus-Corn.

Location

Box

141.K.14.6F

105

Corn.

Location

Box

141.K.15.5B

121

Bound labels:

Le Sueur. 1 volume.

Green Giant brand. 1 volume.

Jolly Giant and Little Green Giant, April Showers, Garden Patch, Delicate. 1 volume.

Kounty Kist, Colo-Pak, Minnesota Valley. 1 volume.

Lindy, Petit Point, North Maid, Trellis, Trailer. 1 volume.

Little Crow, North Chief, Tem-ting, stock labels, Dawn Fresh. 1 volume.

Canned vegetables.

Bound labels:

Frozen institutional. 1 volume.

Sauce Frosted. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.15.8F

122

Bound labels:

Casseroles, rice products, Taste America, Harvest. 2 folders.

Le Sueur combinations, Sweetlets combinations, Toast Toppers, Oriental combinations.

Frozen vegetables. 3 folders.

Southern recipes, Toast Toppers, Boil 'N Bag, Bake 'n Serve, Holloway House. 5 folders.

Trellis.

Canadian cartons.

Kounty Kist.

Location

Box

141.K.20.1B

128

Label book, undated, 1944. 1 volume and 1 folder.

Location

Box

141.K.20.2F

129

Sales, June 11, 1990.

Vegetables, undated. 7 folders.

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LITIGATION: GREEN GIANT COMPANY V. JOLLY GIANT SYSTEMS, INC.

Testimony and exhibits documenting a trademark infringement suit that provide information about the history of the company, its products, trademarks and corporate officers.

Location

Box

141.K.9.6F

Testimony and some correspondence, 1967-1968. 5 folders.

Offer information about advertising campaigns, corporate philosophy, acquisitions and expansion, joint ventures, lack of a records retention program and destruction of advertising samples, new product development, trademark licensing, restaurant affiliations, institutional and commercial sales, and corporate biographies of Maurice Austin, Lyle Polfuss, Paul Benson and R. Carl Henry, all of whom testified.

Location

Box

148.D.16.3B-2

116

Exhibits:

Include Green Giant costumes, consumer correspondence, clippings of product advertising, promotional literature, store displays, lists of products, Green Giant doll, Tennessee Ernie Ford recording with lyrics, point of sale data, coupons and broker mailings. Some exhibits are missing.

Lyle Polfuss exhibits 1-67. 3 folders.

Maurice Austin exhibits 68-81.

R. Carl Henry exhibits 82-95.

Paul Benson exhibits 96-138.

Location

Box

141.K.14.2F

Exhibit 496: Mask and costume set.

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BLUEPRINTS, MAPS, AND FLOW CHARTS

Location

Box

142.C.7.7

108

Corporate structure charts.

Local purchase order and employee purchases flow charts, 1968.

Order processing, headquarters.

Electrical layout and details, Freon freezers, Glencoe, 1973.

Glencoe cold storage warehouse, 1973.

Bama Meats blueprints, 1969, 1972.

Indianapolis branch office flow chart, undated.

Wisconsin county and township maps, approximately 1955-1956.

Cleveland office sales orders flow chart, undated.

General purchase order flow chart, 1968.

Accounts payable flow chart, 1968.

Atlanta branch office flow chart, undated.

Direct office and salesman order procedures flow chart, undated.

United States map, with annotations, undated.

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PREDECESSOR, SUBSIDIARY, AND RELATED COMPANIES

Location

Box

141.K.8.2F

Bama Meats, Inc., reports, 1968-1970. 2 folders.

Files of Merv Krohn.

Location

Box

141.K.7.6F

Blue Mountain Canneries:

Volume 101. Minute book, 1934-1947. 1 volume.

Location

Box

148.C.2.7B-1

Volume 193. Daily cash sheets, July 1935-April 1940. 1 volume.

Location

Box

141.K.7.6F

Central Wisconsin Canneries: Annual reports, 1941-1944.

Cokato Canning Company:

Volume 22, Sales book, 1920-1926. 1 volume.

Volume 23. Ledger, 1913-1916. 1 volume.

Volume 24. Ledger, 1923-1925. 1 volume.

Volume 25. Payroll time book, 1914-1922. 1 volume.

Volume 26. Stockholders ledger, 1904-1924. 1 volume.

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141.K.7.6F

Cosgrove Company:

Volume 7. Ledger, 1914-1918. 1 volume.

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141.K.7.7B

Volume 8. Ledger, 1917-1919. 1 volume.

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148.C.2.7B-1

Gopher State Canneries, Inc.:

Volume 28. Sales book, 1920-1928.

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141.K.7.8F

Volume 249. Ledger, 1919-1920. 4 folders.

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141.K.7.7B

Volume 33. Ledger, 1925-1928. 1 volume.

Volume 99. Cash book, 1920-1926. 1 volume.

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148.C.2.7B-2

Journal, 1919.

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141.K.7.7B

Volume 100. Journal, 1926-1930. 1 volume.

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148.C.2.7B-2

Volume 247. Voucher register, 1920-1928. 1 volume.

Volume 248. Combined journal and cash book, 1920-1928. 1 volume.

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141.K.7.8F

Le Sueur Development Associates, Inc.:

These records were administered by Paul Benson, an MVCC employee who served as secretary of the association from 1945 to 1950. According to a 1989 interview with Allen Cords, a former mayor of Le Sueur, Ward Cosgrove initiated the plans to develop Green Acres after World War II. Cords stated that Cosgrove delegated Paul Benson to work on the residential development project.

Corporate records, including articles of association, bylaws, and minutes of the board and stockholders, 1945-1950. 1 volume.

Journal, ledger, and purchasers' account, 1945-1950. 2 folders.

Newspapers clippings, Le Sueur papers, 1944-1946.

Newspapers clippings, non-Le Sueur papers, 1944.

William F. Dietrich correspondence, 1945-1949.

Federal Housing Authority correspondence, 1945-1948.

Financial records, 1945-1947.

Green Acres correspondence, 1945-1946, 1950-1951. 2 folders.

William Hottinger correspondence, 1945-1948.

Le Sueur Development Association, Inc. correspondence, 1945-1949.

Le Sueur Post War Planning Committee correspondence, 1944-1948.

Morell & Nichols correspondence, 1945-1948.

J.T. Peterson correspondence, 1945-1948.

Protective covenants and restrictions, 1946.

Stocks, 1945.

Brochures, undated.

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141.K.8.2F

Purchase agreements, 1946-1950.

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141.K.8.1B

Le Sueur Wide Open golf tournament, 1934-1956. 9 folders.

Arrangements, invitation lists, score cards, programs and correspondence for this corporate-sponsored invitation golf tournament for company employees, clients, and business associates.

Minnesota Valley Corporation:

Correspondence, balance sheets, operating statements, stock transactions and related records, 1930-1935. 4 folders.

Balance sheets and correspondence of W.F. Dietrich and E.B. Cosgrove. Included is information about the 1931 corporate industrial filing.

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141.K.8.2F

Restaurants:

Maps, menus, advertising, press releases and some histories of restaurants.

Green Giant, 1969.

Hoffman House, 1969-1978. 6 folders.

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148.C.2.8F-1

Henrici's, undated.

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141.K.20.2F

129

Related and subsidiary companies, undated, 1970-1973. 2 folders.

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GREEN GIANT FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM RECORDS

Access restricted. Closed for 90 years from date of last entry in the record.

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141.K.7.8F

Scholarship program records, 1962-1972. 2 folders and 3 volumes.

Include criteria, applications, awards, lists of recipients, and three volumes relating to the Scholarship and Savings Bond program.

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141.K.9.6F

Scholarship program records, 1967-1970.

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EMPLOYEES

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141.K.19.8F

127

Policy books, undated, 1960-1964. 6 volumes and 2 folders.

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141.K.20.3B

130

Career opportunities, undated.

Summer job opportunities with Green Giant, undated, 1977.

Time book, 1904-1913. 1 volume.

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141.K.20.2F

129

Employee education, benefits, and retirement, undated, 1950-1979. 6 folders.

Progress report to employees, 1961.

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NEWSLETTERS

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141.K.19.8F

127

Nibletter, 1945-1948. 5 folders.

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141.K.19.7B

126

Nibletter, 1950-1970. 21 folders.

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141.K.20.3B

130

Family safety, 1969-1973.

Valley helpers news, 1972-1975. 4 folders.

Valley views educational newsletter.

Schweigert weenie news, 1972-1975.

Press clippings, 1906-1994.

Personal and confidential news briefs, May 26, 1954-January 1956.

War-time materials, 1941-1945.

Minnesota Valley Canning Company historical documents, 1900-1970.

Growers' news letter, 1972.

Grower to grocery, 1974-1979.

Girl-e CUES, 1957-1962.

Newsletter for and about Green Giant women.

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PHOTOGRAPHS

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Farm equipment in the field, 1960s.

Green Giant home and garden centers, approximately 1970.

Life magazine photographs: Corn-on-the-curb, 1960.

New activities for the Green Giant, 1960s-1970s.

Plant scenes, 1950s-1988. 3 folders.

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142.C.7.8

125

Aerial photograph of unidentified plant, undated.

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148.C.2.8F-2

Pueblocito Del Maiz (Le Sueur, Minn.), undated, 1929.

Restaurants, approximately 1970.

Vegetables in the field, 1960s-1970s. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated.

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AUDIOVISUAL

This audiovisual collection may contain copyrighted and trademarked materials. Researchers wishing to publicly use AV material may need to seek permission from both the Minnesota Historical Society and the copyright and/or trademark holders. Please consult the reference staff for more information.

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Film recordings:

Green Giant employee film: Agriculture and pea canning, December 8, 1958. 1 master film reel (5 minutes, 25 seconds): silent, black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (394 MB).

Digital version

The best things in life, 1958. 1 master film reel (20 minutes, 2 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.4 GB).

An Employers Mutuals of Wausau production in cooperation with the safety committee of the Wisconsin Canners Association. A cannery employee safety film made with the assistance of the Green Giant Company.

Digital version

Pea combine at Rochelle, Illinois, June 25, 1958. 1 film reel (4 minutes, 4 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (295 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant niblets corn, U.K., June 1963. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 7 seconds): 35mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.1 GB).

Digital version

Green Giant corn, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, September 4, 1963. 1 film reel (2 minutes, 34 seconds): black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

ABC WBKB-TV Chicago.

Green beans, niblets, broccoli spears, Le Sueur early peas: petis pois, 1963. 1 master film reel (4 minutes, 36 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (334 MB).

Digital version

Niblets and mexicorn, 1963. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 17 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (89 MB).

Digital version

Niblets and mexicorn (Spanish), 1963. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas and early peas with onions: moonlight, 1963. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Two variations.

Digital version

Sweet peas: moonlight, 1963. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 36 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (193 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: moonlight (Spanish), 1963. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant commercials introduced by Jack Paar, [1964]. 1 master film reel (13 minutes, 22 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (946 MB).

Digital version

Frozen strawberries, frozen raspberries, niblets: soapbox, niblets: barn dance, green beans: slicer, cream style corn: symphony, sweet peas: riverboat, spinach: valley gym, green beans: dance, niblets: guess who, broccoli spears: tourists, 1967. 1 master film reel (12 minutes, 6 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (909 MB).

Digital version

Jolly beans, LeSueur peas: aliens, niblets: greenhound bus, green beans: slicing contest, sweet peas: moonlight, niblets: safari, broccoli spears: delivery, cream style corn: airmail, green beans: golf, sweet peas: riverboat, cream style corn: symphony, 1967. 1 master film reel (11 minutes, 18 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (848 MB).

Digital version

Valley news: Eyes and ears of the ho-ho-whole world, 1967. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 37 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (797 MB).

Advertising and promotion plans for 1967 through 1968.

Digital version

Rice promotions, 1968. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 55 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (214 MB).

Buttered rice and rice pilaf.

Digital version

Rice promotions (sketches), 1968. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 37 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (268 MB).

Includes rough sketch versions of ads.

Digital version

Johnny Carson joke and Carol Burnett, 1968 and undated. 1 film reel (6 minutes, 6 seconds): color, black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

Snackwiches, Johnny Carson, Jerry Lewis, Carol Burnett, 1968 and undated. 1 film reel (8 minutes, 3 seconds): color; 16mm.

In copyright.

Brokers meeting, 1969. 1 film reel (4 minutes, 50 seconds): color; 16mm.

In copyright.

Excerpts of Johnny Carson and Jerry Lewis, plus sweet peas: argyle, rice pilaf: cowboy, and green beans: El Diagonal.

Corn on the Curb footage, Le Sueur, Minnesota, 1969. 1 master film reel (16 minutes, 52 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.2 GB).

Appearances by Harris Halvorson, Ray Sonnel, Eugene Schultz, and Jeanie Boyd.

Digital version

Annual meeting, 1970. 1 master film reel (11 minutes, 31 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (864 MB).

Skits and film clips. Also includes green beans: eye test and niblets: water tower.

Digital version

Little Green Sprout commercials, 1972. 1 master film reel (7 minutes): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (524 MB).

Commercials for niblets, sweet peas, frozen in butter sauce: corn and broccoli spears, frozen in cheese sauce: cauliflower.

Digital version

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Amateur film reel 1, undated. 1 master film reel (13 minutes, 23 seconds): silent, black and white; 8mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (982 MB).

Includes footage of the Green Giant offices in Le Sueur, Minnesota.

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Amateur film reel 2, undated. 1 master film reel (13 minutes, 21 seconds): silent, black and white; 8mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (979 MB).

Includes footage of a race track, parade, and house fire.

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Amateur film reel 3, undated. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 36 seconds): silent, black and white; 8mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (270 MB).

Includes footage of a boat ride and men showing off caught fish.

Digital version

Bake-a-dinner, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Beef ala stroganoff: Russia and Tina's Kitchen (60 second), undated. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 38 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (194 MB).

Digital version

Beef ala stroganoff: Tina's kitchen (30 second), undated. 1 master film reel (50 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (50 MB).

Digital version

Brokers meeting, undated. 1 master film reel (6 minutes, 38 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (496 MB).

Commercials for cream style corn and sweet peas, plus frozen niblets, leaf spinach, and broccoli spears.

Digital version

Brown sugared pork and beans commercials, undated. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 56 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (216 MB).

Meanest man, cup of sugar, jolly beans.

Digital version

Charlie Manna on the Tonight Show, undated. 1 film reel (6 minutes, 25 seconds): color, black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

Also includes sweet potato: commercial, rice pilaf, and pork and beans: brown sugar.

Cream style corn: airmail, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Cream style corn: airmail, early peas: flying saucer, niblets: sightseers, green beans: contest,green beans: golf, niblets: safari, sweet peas: watchman, broccoli spears: delivery, undated. 1 master film reel (8 minutes, 31 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (639 MB).

Digital version

Cream style corn: One Two McGrue, undated. 1 master film reel (50 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (50 MB).

Digital version

Cream style corn: special process, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Del Monte commercials, undated. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 26 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (253 MB).

Filmed off of a television screen.

Digital version

Del Monte corn: Art Linkletter live, undated. 1 film reel (1 minute, 31 seconds): black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

Food for thought, undated. 1 master film reel (19 minutes, 44 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.4 GB).

An Employers Mutuals of Wausau production in cooperation with the safety committee of the Wisconsin Canners Association. A farm employee safety film made with the assistance of the Green Giant Company.

Digital version

From field to food (part one), undated. 1 master film reel (17 minutes, 33 seconds): silent, black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.3 GB).

Part two titled Tecumseh 1930s and 40s. Presented by Fine Foods of Canada Ltd.

Digital version

Frozen broccoli spears and lima beans: cheerleader, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (96 MB).

Digital version

Frozen commercials, undated. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 29 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (182 MB).

Green beans in mushroom sauce: family player and spinach in cream sauce: press conference.

Digital version

Frozen commercials showcase, undated. 1 master film reel (12 minutes, 39 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (948 MB).

Digital version

Frozen green beans and broccoli spears: telegraph and Green Giant ragdoll, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 50 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (133 MB).

Digital version

Frozen in butter sauce: green beans, peas, niblets, broccoli spears, and lima beans, undated. 1 master film reel (5 minutes, 42 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (425 MB).

Digital version

Frozen in butter sauce: niblets and kitchen sliced beans, sweet peas, and niblets, undated. 1 master film reel (4 minutes, 40 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (347 MB).

Digital version

Frozen Le Sueur peas: reunion and broccoli spears: opera, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (95 MB).

Digital version

Frozen niblets: do not choose to run, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Green beans, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Green beans: El Diagonal, undated. 1 master film reel (50 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (50 MB).

Digital version

Green beans and early peas with onions, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Green beans: eye test and niblets: water tower, undated. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 21 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (172 MB).

Digital version

Green beans: golf, undated. 1 master film reel (51 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (51 MB).

Digital version

Green beans: kitchen sliced, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Green beans: magician, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 23 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (97 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant employee film: New developments, undated. 1 master film reel (16 minutes, 32 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.2 GB).

Digital version

Green Giant frozen commercials, undated. 1 master film reel (5 minutes, 10 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (386 MB).

LeSueur peas; gossip, niblets: Mr. Fix It, buttered rice; predictions, casserole: eligible man, casserole: picking, and broccoli: handsome.

Digital version

Green Giant: Get Smart, undated. 1 master film reel (23 minutes, 52 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.7 GB).

Sales and promo plans for the year. Get Smart parody.

Digital version

Green Giant Laugh In, undated. 1 film reel (2 minutes, 3 seconds): color; 16mm.

In copyright.

Featuring Mrs. Jolly Green Giant.

Green Giant toy farm truck, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Introduction to Corn on the Curb Days in Le Sueur, Minnesota, undated. 1 master film reel (6 minutes, 9 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (459 MB).

Digital version

The Jolly Green Giant ain't as jolly as you think, undated. 1 master film reel (12 minutes, 39 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (948 MB).

Promo for Green Giant's role in the frozen food industry. Featuring various commercials and advertisements.

Digital version

Kounty Kist: Sweet peas and sweet corn, undated. 1 master film reel (4 minutes, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (321 MB).

Digital version

Leaf spinach: ice skating, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 21 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (96 MB).

Digital version

Le Sueur peas: gossip, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 21 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (95 MB).

Digital version

LeSueur peas promo film, undated. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 25 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (253 MB).

Promo for LeSueur early peas. Featuring various magazine advertisements.

Digital version

Le Sueur Wide Open, undated. 1 master film reel (18 minutes, 24 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (132 MB).

Golf tournament with Edward B. Cosgrove, chairman of the Green Giant board of directors.

Digital version

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Lucy film: Desi Arnaz, undated. 1 film reel (1 minute, 59 seconds): black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

Menu classics: ice block, undated. 1 master film reel (51 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (53 MB).

Digital version

Menu classics: Tina's kitchen, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Montgomery corn yard and plant, undated. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 2 seconds): silent, black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (753 MB).

Digital version

Niblets and white corn, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Niblets: dowsing, green beans: El Diagonal, niblets: Pete Moss and His Valley Cats, and niblets: Mr. Fix It, undated. 1 master film reel (4 minutes, 24 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (327 MB).

Digital version

Niblets: lecture, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 22 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (95 MB).

Digital version

Niblets: magic trick, sweet peas: special seed, niblets: watering, cream style corn, and green beans: kitchen sliced, undated. 1 master film reel (6 minutes, 31 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (487 MB).

Digital version

Niblets: Mr. Fix It, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 21 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (96 MB).

Digital version

Niblets: the sunshine vegetable, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 2 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (67 MB).

Digital version

Niblets: watering, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 17 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (91 MB).

Digital version

Pork and beans commercials, undated. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 55 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (214 MB).

Digital version

Pork and beans: meanest man (30 second), undated. 1 master film reel (49 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (49 MB).

Digital version

Pork and beans: meanest man (60 second), undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Standard Oil Exxon commercial, undated. 1 film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): color; 16mm.

In copyright.

Advertising hall of fame with Green Giant.

Suggestion pay-offs, undated. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 10 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (235 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: football, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: moonlight, green beans: kitchen sliced, niblets and white corn, cream style corn: watering, mexicorn, whole kernel corn, undated. 1 master film reel (6 minutes, 47 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (508 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: palm reader, niblets: valley fair, Green Giant ragdoll, undated. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 7 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (230 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: pea pickers, broccoli spears and lima beans: cheerleader, undated. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 21 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (174 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: sweet as honey, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 22 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: transistor, undated. 1 master film reel (49 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (49 MB).

Digital version

Sweet peas: watchman, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 18 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (92 MB).

Digital version

Sweet potatoes: commercial, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 20 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (95 MB).

Digital version

Sweet potatoes: storyboard, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 22 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (98 MB).

Digital version

Sweetlets: big news, undated. 1 master film reel (49 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (49 MB).

Digital version

Tecumseh 1930s and 40s (part two), undated. 1 master film reel (17 minutes, 49 seconds): silent, black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.3 GB).

Part one titled From Field to Food. Presented by Fine Foods of Canada Ltd.

Digital version

Valley of the Green Giant: World's largest corn cannery, Glencoe, Minnesota, undated. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 58 seconds): silent, black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (824 MB).

Digital version

Very young tender sweet peas, undated. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 19 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (94 MB).

Digital version

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From good earth to good tables, 1947. 1 master film reel (27 minutes, 11 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.9 GB).

Created when the company was the Minnesota Valley Canning Company. Appearances by Lenor Lucie, Bob McGlauphlin, Don Nelson, Roy Gritzmacher, Arnie Wick, Beverly Boehm, Al Lawrence, Joe Doctor, and Beverly Dane.

Digital version

The Green Giant's magic: An adventure in time lapse photography, 1955. 1 master film reel (20 minutes, 26 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.5 GB).

Appearances by Marshall Evens, Dave Oberts, Al Hoffman, Ken Freeman, and Gus (Norbert) Mager.

Digital version

The Green Giant's magic: An adventure in time lapse photography (black and white), 1955. 1 master film reel (20 minutes, 23 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.5 GB).

Appearances by Marshall Evens, Dave Oberts, Al Hoffman, Ken Freeman, and Gus (Norbert) Mager.

Digital version

Green Giant promo film, June 21, 1963. 1 master film reel (24 minutes, 31 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.8 GB).

Advertising and promotion plans for 1963 and 1964.

Digital version

Green giant promo film: Southern market, 1963. 1 film reel (24 minutes, 51 seconds): black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

Sales and promo plans for the year. Includes clips of television shows where Green Giant was advertised.

Green Giant sales promotion, 1963. 1 film reel (27 minutes, 18 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (2 GB).

Digital version

Next time you spill the beans, 1965. 1 film reel (26 minutes, 20 seconds): color; 16mm.

In copyright.

A presentation of Clark Foods.

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Good things from the garden, 1966. 1 master film reel (23 minutes, 44 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.8 GB).

Narrated by Pat Berglund. Appearances by Fred Ullrich, Lee Woodruff, Eldon Brown, and Fieldman Schmidt.

Digital version

Good things from the garden, trims and outs reel 1, 1966. 1 master film reel (40 minutes, 18 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (3 GB).

Digital version

Good things from the garden, trims and outs reel 2, 1966. 1 master film reel (37 minutes, 54 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (2.8 GB).

Digital version

Green Giant Canned, 1966. 1 film reel (23 minutes, 12 seconds): color; 16mm.

In copyright.

Sales and promo plans for the year. Get Smart parody that also features footage of Bill Cosby winning an Emmy award for I Spy.

Advertising: What it's doing to your life, 1960s. 1 master film reel (38 minutes, 57 seconds): black and white; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (2.9 GB).

Digital version

American: The shape of the future, undated. 1 master film reel (19 minutes, 58 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.5 GB).

Promo film for the American canning industry.

Digital version

Growing and canning corn, undated. 1 master film reel (34 minutes, 20 seconds): color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (2.6 GB).

Appearance by Doc Oltman.

Digital version

High Chaparral and Ironside, undated. 1 film reel (8 minutes, 12 seconds): black and white; 16mm.

In copyright.

Clips from the television shows viewed by the Green Giant sales department when deciding what programs to sponsor.

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Good things from the garden, animated credits, 1966. 1 master film reel (1 minute, 39 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (111 MB).

Digital version

Good things from the garden, end credits, 1966. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 43 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (279 MB).

Digital version

Good things from the garden, opening credits, 1966. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 45 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (167 MB).

Digital version

Good things from the garden, rushes, 1966.

Reel 1. 1 master film reel (6 minutes, 34 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (491 MB).

Digital version

Reel 2. 1 master film reel (7 minutes, 31 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (562 MB).

Digital version

Reel 3. 1 master film reel (41 minutes, 51 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (3.1 GB).

Digital version

Reel 4. 1 master film reel (24 minutes, 41 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.8 GB).

Digital version

Reel 5. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 40 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (800 MB).

Digital version

Reel 6. 1 master film reel (7 minutes): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (524 MB).

Digital version

Reel 7. 1 master film reel (7 minutes, 58 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (596 MB).

Digital version

Reel 8. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 18 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (774 MB).

Digital version

Reel 9. 1 master film reel (12 minutes, 3 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (905 MB).

Digital version

Reel 10. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 27 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (784 MB).

Digital version

Reel 11. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 42 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (803 MB).

Digital version

Reel 12. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 45 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (806 MB).

Digital version

Reel 13. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 43 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (804 MB).

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Reel 14. 1 master film reel (5 minutes, 2 seconds):silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (376 MB).

Digital version

Reel 15. 1 master film reel (5 minutes, 14 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (390 MB).

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Reel 16. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 1 second): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (223 MB).

Digital version

Reel 17. 1 master film reel (9 minutes, 31 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (714 MB).

Digital version

Reel 18. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 23 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (174 MB).

Digital version

Reel 19. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 59 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (220 MB).

Digital version

Reel 20. 1 master film reel (9 minutes, 4 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (680 MB).

Digital version

Reel 21. 1 master film reel (12 minutes, 51 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (965 MB).

Digital version

Reel 22. 1 master film reel (10 minutes, 19 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (775 MB).

Digital version

Reel 23. 1 master film reel (23 minutes, 32 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (1.7 GB).

Digital version

Reel 24. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 1 second): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (222 MB).

Digital version

Reel 25. 1 master film reel (9 minutes, 13 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (692 MB).

Digital version

Reel 26. 1 master film reel (9 minutes, 50 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (738 MB).

Digital version

Reel 27. 1 master film reel (7 minutes, 54 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (592 MB).

Digital version

Reel 28. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 22 seconds): silent, olor; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (174 MB).

Digital version

Reel 29. 1 master film reel (2 minutes, 43 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (200 MB).

Digital version

Reel 30. 1 master film reel (3 minutes, 19 seconds): silent, color; 16mm. and 1 user video file: MP4 (247 MB).

Digital version

Good things from the garden soundtrack, 1966. 1 master film reel (24 minutes, 12 seconds): 16mm. and 1 user audio file: MP3 (19.7 MB).

Audio only. Neg sound, b-wind. Includes narration.

Digital version

Location

Internet

Video recordings:

A helping hand, 1973. 1 master video file (21 minutes, 3 seconds): MOV (4.8 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (206 MB).

Container note: Green Giant 1973 Puerto Rican recruiting by J Kline.

Digital video

LeSueur corn pack, 1985. 1 master video file (1 hour, 10 minutes): MOV (15.9 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (679 MB).

Digital video

Cream style pack, May 1988. 1 master video file (15 minutes, 35 seconds): MOV (3.6 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (150 MB).

Digital video

Mayville plant, July 12, 1989. 1 master video file (1 hour, 25 minutes): MOV (19.5 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (840 MB).

Digital video

Beaver Dam plant and Ripon plant, July 12 and 13, 1989. 1 master video file (37 minutes, 5 seconds): MOV (8.4 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (359 MB).

Digital video

Green Giant processing peas, July 31, 1990. 1 master video file (1 hour, 31 minutes): MOV (20.8 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (867 MB).

Container note: by Patty Johnson.

Digital video

LeSueur plant, corn pack, 1990. 1 master video file (36 minutes, 9 seconds): MOV (8.2 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (350 MB).

Digital video

LeSueur plant, pea pack, 1991. 1 master video file (25 minutes, 40 seconds): MOV (5.8 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (248 MB).

Digital video

News report, LeSueur plant closes, 1995. 1 master video file (4 minutes, 11 seconds): MOV (954 MB).

In copyright.

Minnesota's legacy of food, May 21, 2002. 1 master video file (8 minutes, 22 seconds): MOV (1.9 GB).

In copyright.

KARE-11 news segment.

Canning corn in the 1960's, Glencoe, Minnesota, undated. 1 master video file (13 minutes, 58 seconds): MOV (3.2 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (134 MB).

Digital video

Cream style corn production in the 1930's, Montgomery, Minnesota, undated. 1 master video file (8 minutes, 40 seconds): MOV (2 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (83 MB).

Digital video

Green Giant goes to the market, undated. 1 master video file (19 minutes, 25 seconds): MOV (4.4 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (183 MB).

Assorted commercials.

Digital video

Green Giant heritage, Somewhere beyond the harvest, undated. 1 master video file (13 minutes, 13 seconds): MOV (3 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (149 MB).

Contains two films. Poor condition.

Digital video

LeSueur cream style process, undated. 1 master video file (15 minutes, 59 seconds): MOV (3.6 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (154 MB).

Digital video

The story of corn, the niblets and Del Maiz brand, undated. 1 master video file (23 minutes, 49 seconds): MOV (5.4 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (230 MB).

Digital video

The story of peas, and the story of corn, undated. 1 master video file (23 minutes, 27 seconds): MOV (5.3 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (226 MB).

Digital video

Location

Box

Shelf N-18-D (Room B105.7)

137

Steve Allen Show, WBC Productions, Inc., undated. 1 master video reel (15 minutes, 37 seconds): 2 in.

In copyright.

Container note: Steve Allen does take off on TV commercials. From shows of January 24 and February 7.

Location

Internet

Audio recordings:

From the valley of the Jolly Green Giant jingle, October 17, 1962. 1 master audio file (45 seconds): WAV (4 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (0.5 MB).

Digital version

WQXI radio, 1967. 1 master audio file (31 minutes, 21 seconds): WAV (162 MB).

In copyright.

Green Giant, pork and beans, advertisements, December 11, 1969. 1 master audio file (5 minutes, 17 seconds): WAV (27 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (4 MB).

Digital version

The Giant's Secret, theme song, 1970. 1 master audio file (2 minutes, 33 seconds): WAV (13 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.8 MB).

Digital version

Steak and lobster radio spots, March 1976. 1 master audio file (21 minutes, 41 seconds): WAV (112 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (15.6 MB).

Digital version

Mr. Felton, undated. 1 master audio file (4 minutes, 49 seconds): WAV (25 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (3.5 MB).

Digital version

Carlson Oldsmobile advertisement, undated. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 3 seconds): WAV (5 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (0.8 MB).

Digital version

Claude and Ezra, Kounty Kist corn and peas advertisement, undated. 1 master audio file (2 minutes, 19 seconds): WAV (12 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.7 MB).

Digital version

Claude and Ezra, Kounty Kist peas and corn advertisement, undated. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 59 seconds): WAV (10 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.5 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant, bean doctor, advertisements, undated. 1 master audio file (5 minutes, 27 seconds): WAV (28 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (4.2 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant, frozen niblets, advertisements, undated. 1 master audio file (3 minutes, 16 seconds): WAV (17 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (2.5 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant, label line, undated. 1 master audio file (16 minutes, 21 seconds): WAV (84 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (11.8 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant, Le Sueur mushrooms advertisements, undated. 1 master audio file (2 minutes, 14 seconds): WAV (11 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.6 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant, niblets advertisements, voiced by Jonathan Winters, undated. 1 master audio file (8 minutes, 58 seconds): WAV (46 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (6.6 MB).

Digital version

Green Giant, sweet corn advertisement, undated. 1 master audio file (31 seconds): WAV (3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (0.4 MB).

Digital version

Jolly beans, undated. 1 master audio file (7 minutes, 51 seconds): WAV (39.6 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (5.9 MB).

Digital version

Someone's in the kitchen with Gina, jingle, undated. 1 master audio file (2 minutes, 3 seconds): WAV (11 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.5 MB).

Digital version

Stokely-Van Camp, advertisements, undated. 1 master audio file (8 minutes, 44 seconds): WAV (45 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (6.6 MB).

Digital version

The Hoffman House story, undated. 1 master audio file (28 minutes, 34 seconds): WAV (148 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (21.3 MB).

Digital version

Unidentified advertisement, undated. 1 master audio file (5 minutes, 15 seconds): WAV (162 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (3.4 MB).

Digital version

Location

Shelf N-18-H (Room B105.7)

Phonograph records/film strip kits:

Canned, advertisements, undated. 1 film strip: 35mm, 1 master sound disc (23 minutes, 20 seconds): analog, 33 1/3 rpm and 1 user audio file: MP3 (16.6 MB).

2 copies.

Digital version

Frozen, advertisements, undated. 1 film strip: 35mm, 1 master sound disc (18 minutes, 49 seconds): analog, 33 1/3 rpm and 1 user audio file: MP3 (14.5 MB).

2 copies.

Digital version

Frozen trade meeting, undated. 1 film strip: 35mm, 1 master sound disc (13 minutes, 5 seconds): analog, 33 1/3 rpm and 1 user audio file: MP3 (10.4 MB).

Digital version

Grand Union Supermarket, marketing report, undated. 1 film strip: 35mm, 1 master sound disc (16 minutes, 44 seconds): analog, 33 1/3 rpm and 1 user audio file: MP3 (12.6 MB).

4 copies of film strip, 3 copies of sound disc.

Digital version

Institutional market, undated. 1 film strip: 35mm, 1 master sound disc (14 minutes, 34 seconds): analog, 33 1/3 rpm and 1 user audio file: MP3 (13.2 MB).

4 copies of film strip, 2 copies of sound disc.

Digital version

Mushroom, advertisement, undated. 1 film strip: 35mm, 1 master sound disc (15 minutes, 51 seconds): analog, 33 1/3 rpm and 1 user audio file: MP3 (11.4 MB).

2 copies.

Digital version

Unidentified, undated. 5 film strips: 35mm.

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MISCELLANEOUS FILES

Location

Box

141.K.19.8F

127

Pea pack recommendations, 1946-1947. 2 folders.

Peerless Super Husker instruction book, approximately 1947.

Area Research Department Project report, 1973-1974. 4 folders.

Le Sueur annual review, 1986. 2 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.20.1B

128

Field manual, 1949-1950. 2 folders.

Location

Box

141.K.20.3B

130

Sales: Introducing Jolly Beans, 1968-1969.

Brand charter statement, undated.

Consumer products, 1965-1980.

Food engineering: Rice products, undated.

Research laboratories, 1964.

Unit load service, undated.

Location

Box

141.K.16.2F

Green Giant Foundation annual report, 1971-1973.

Phonograph records, 1959-1963.

Pillsbury: Miscellany, 1978-1991.

Quality assurance reports, 1977-1980.

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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:: Advertising -- Food.; Agricultural industries -- Minnesota.; Canned vegetables industry -- Minnesota.; Canneries -- Minnesota.; Frozen vegetables industry -- Minnesota.; Garden centers (Retail trade) -- Minnesota.; Migrant agricultural laborers -- Minnesota.

Organizations:: Minnesota Valley Canning Company, author.; Pillsbury Company, author.

Document Types:: Can labels.; Motion pictures.; Phonograph records.; Photographs.; Sound recordings.; Video recordings (physical artifacts).

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