trade associations

Content Description This collection contains personal and organizational files of Alexander Gordeuk of Rahway, New Jersey. He was a member of U.S. Participation Committee, World's Poultry Congress and a staff coordinator for animal products, Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories. The collection includes items relating to the U.S. Branch of the World Poultry Science Association and its Participation Committee's activities leading to and involvement in World's Poultry Congresses held in Mexico City, Mexico...

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The Andrew Christie Papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs concerning Christie's work with the Seventh World's Poultry Congress, held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939.

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The James M. Gwin Collection contains approximately 50,000 items of poultry information resources. It consists primarily of business correspondence pertaining to several poultry associations, catalogs from poultry equipment manufacturing firms, documents about early breeders in the poultry industry, egg and poultry legislation, papers on industry meetings held in various states of the United States, and miscellaneous publication clippings related to the egg and poultry industry.

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The M. Truman Fossum Floriculture Collection include Fossum's business and personal correspondence, as well as reports and publications related to marketing, horticulture, and the floriculture industry in the United States and abroad.

Content Description The collection contains extensive files from the National Turkey Federation (NTF) and its advertising agency, the Evans Advertising Agency of Salt Lake City, Utah. Records include photographs of the NTF’s early officers, statistical reports, correspondence, promotional budgets, marketing research, recipes, photographs, slides, audio recordings, filmstrips, videotapes, and hundreds of color photographs and transparencies. Materials document the NTF’s efforts to promote the...

Content Description The New York State Poultry Industry Coordinated Effort Records consist of bylaws, articles of incorporation, and subsequent amendments. There are materials related to special studies regarding federal Turkey Marketing Orders (1961-1962) and freight rates for feedstuffs set by the Interstate Commerce Commission and Eastern Rail Carriers (1964-1966). Records of the federation's member organizations (New York State Poultry Council, SPICE Marketing Cooperatives, New York State Egg Distributors...

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The Poultry and Egg National Board Records include board meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, egg promotional material, new product research, cholesterol and fat studies, diet and nutritional cookbooks, reports of the American Home Economics Association conferences, and reports of the 1969 White House Conference on Nutrition.

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The Richard P. White Papers contain correspondence, brochures, newsletters, publications, subject files, and drafts relating to White's manuscript "A Century of Service: A History of the Nursery Industry Association of the United States."

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The Society of American Florists Records and Book Collection consists of both organizational records and bound volumes. The Society of American Florists (SAF) Records cover the period from 1894 to 1993, and contain proceedings, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, publications, photographs, and scrapbooks. The SAF Book Collection consists of over 200 volumes, including monographs and bound serials from 1793 to 1990.

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The World's Poultry Science Association Records contain materials collected by various members and officers of the organization. Included are correspondence, reports, publications, awards information, ephemera, meeting minutes, and photographs. The majority of the materials correspond with member participation in the World's Poultry Congresses, European poultry conferences, and other meetings. The earliest material dates from the first World's Poultry Congress in 1921.