Growth of the Coop Food Store 1948 by Paul W. Gates, 1948

Form letters, reports, announcements, by-laws, union contracts, insurance reports, financial summaries, property appraisals, stock and debentures ledgers, publicity tracts, clippings, photographs, surveys, studies, membership lists, annual reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the activities of the Cooperative Consumers' Society, including records pertaining to store management, cooperation, volunteers, personnel, expansion, planning, construction, plans to reopen the Co-op Food Store in 1980, and other subjects. Also included are minutes and reports of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee; Education Committee correspondence, minutes, advertisements, and other materials; "Trade Winds," an employee publication; copies of the "Co-op Bulletin"; papers and a market survey analysis by Peter May; and papers concerning the early history of the Co-op, by Edward Wilson, Paul W. Gates, and Hugh Cosline.

Also includes papers written for Cornell University course, Agricultural Economics 249 and other courses using the Co-op as their subject.

Consists of collections 1689 and 1083.