Guide to the Records of the Great Western Sugar Company

Prepared by Linda M. Meyer


Colorado State University, Colorado Agricultural Archive
Morgan Library, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1019 USA


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Collection Summary

Restrictions

Index Terms

History

Scope and Contents

Arrangement

Administrative Information

Related Material

Series Descriptions

Inventory


Collection Summary

Creator: Great Western Sugar Company
Title: Records of the Great Western Sugar Company
Dates: 1893-1984
Bulk Dates: 1950-1975
Quantity: 63 linear feet
Identification: AGWS
Abstract: Each new factory of the Great Western Sugar Company quickly became the hub of the agricultural community in which it was built. The Great Western Sugar Company, incorporated on February 27, 1905, was the dominant producer of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska beet sugar for over sixty years. The Records of the Great Western Sugar Company consists of photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, audio and videotapes and motion picture films produced by company photographers. Some textual materials are also included in the collection.
Contact Information: Colorado Agricultural Archive
Archives and Special Collections
Morgan Library
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1019 USA
Phone: 970-491-1844
Fax: 970-491-1195
Email: specialcollections@library.colostate.edu
URL: http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/agriculture/

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection. However, the collection is stored off-site, so advanced notice is required.

Restrictions on Use

Not all of the material in the collection is in the public domain. Researchers are responsible for addressing copyright issues.

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Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Colorado State University Libraries online catalog. Researchers seeking materials about related subjects, persons, organizations or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Subjects:
Sugar beet industry.
Sugar beet.
Sugar factories.
Organizations:
Great Western Sugar Company.
Places:
Colorado.
Nebraska.
United States.
Special Document Types:
Photographs.
Negatives.
Slides (photographs).
Motion pictures (visual works).
Audiotapes.
Videotapes.

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History

Each new factory of the Great Western Sugar Company quickly became the hub of the agricultural community in which it was built. Sugar beets were cultivated in Colorado as early as 1869, and tests conducted by the State Agricultural College in Fort Collins a decade later confirmed that Colorado soil could yield up to 30 tons of sugar beets per acre. The first sugar beet processing factory in Colorado was built in Grand Junction in 1899. By 1906, beet sugar factories had been constructed in Rocky Ford, Loveland, Greeley, Eaton, Fort Collins, Longmont, Windsor, Sterling, Fort Morgan and Brush.

In 1903, New York businessman Henry O. Havemeyer purchased the Loveland plant, and within a short time bought the sugar factories in Fort Collins, Windsor and Longmont. Two years later, with capital stock worth $20 million, the Havemeyer trust drew up a corporate charter under New Jersey laws. The Great Western Sugar Company was incorporated on February 27, 1905. As head of the American Sugar Refining Company, by the time of his death in 1907 Havemeyer had become a dominant force in the American beet and cane sugar industry. His son, Horace, served as a director at Great Western from 1907 until 1949.

Chester S. Morey, one of the investors who built the Loveland factory in 1901, served as president of the Great Western Sugar Company from 1910 until 1917. Under his direction, sugar beet factories were built or purchased in Scottsbluff, Gering and Bayard, Nebraska; Billings, Montana; Lovell, Wyoming and Brighton, Colorado. With the onset of World War I in Europe, exports of sugar beet seeds to America declined. Great Western research labs, established in Denver in 1913 by W. C. Graham, found methods for producing sufficient seed for company growers. The laboratories later developed techniques for controlling webworm infestation, which destroyed over 180,000 acres of sugar beets in 1918.

In 1917, as the United States became involved in World War I, William L. Petrikin took over the presidency of the Great Western Sugar Company. During his tenure, the company built or acquired processing plants in Fort Lupton, Ovid and Johnstown as well as in the Nebraska communities of Mitchell, Minatare and Lyman.

The Johnstown factory was built in 1926 (under the supervision of Great Western general manager William D. Lippitt) for the purpose of recovering additional products from the thousands of tons of pulp left after the sugar was extracted from the beets. In a process utilizing barium, sugar was recovered from the waste molasses from the other factories. Although this recovered sugar was unsuitable for human consumption, it could be used for cattle feed pellets and fertilizer. Lippitt went on to become president of the Great Western Sugar Company in 1931, but his life was ended by a horse accident three years later.

The next notable president of Great Western would be Frank A. Kemp, a former lawyer. Under his leadership, the company acquired subsidiaries including the Great Western Railway, the Ingleside Limestone Company and the Cache la Poudre Company. Great Western pushed for the construction of reservoirs and supported the Big Thompson Water Diversion Project. Insights gained by company researchers concerning increased yields, pest control methods and innovative equipment were passed on to growers through the company publications, Through the Leaves and Upbeet.

During the early decades of Great Western's history, the beet sugar work force consisted mainly of German-Russian laborers who became farmers. With the outbreak of the second world war, Japanese-Americans, forced from their homes and businesses on the West Coast, made their way to Colorado and Wyoming and provided labor on the beet farms. After the war, this Japanese-American work force was augmented by Mexican migrant workers, known as "braceros."

By the mid 1930s, Colorado was the state with the largest number of beet sugar factories (sixteen) in the United States, and Great Western owned and operated thirteen of them. Although Colorado and California were the top beet sugar producing states from 1935 to 1958, the post-war years saw a gradual decline in the profitability of the Great Western Sugar Company operations.

In 1954, an addition to the Johnstown plant began producing monosodium glutamate (MSG), a flavor enhancer. This boosted profits for a time, but the sagging sugar market soon led Great Western to sell its Ingleside Limestone and Cache la Poudre subsidiaries. Poor management policies and a failure to modernize its sugar processing factories caused additional problems for Great Western.

The Great Western Sugar Company became part of the Great Western United Corporation in 1968. Great Western United diversified its holdings through the purchase of many other companies, including Shakey's Pizza, the California City Development Company and the Colorado Milling and Elevator Company. Falling sugar prices during the 1970s led to the sale of Great Western United in 1977 to the Hunt International Resources Company, owned by the Hunt brothers of Dallas, Texas.

The management of the Great Western Sugar Company moved to Dallas, where Ivan Beelenberg acted as president. In an attempt to increase profitability, Beenlenberg initiated new corporate policies and cut budgets and manpower. In 1978, Great Western entered the cane sugar market with the purchase of the Godchaux-Henderson Sugar Company located in Reserve, Louisiana. Two years later, Great Western closed the Johnstown sugar factory, and in 1982 the Johnstown MSG plant shifted to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

Competition from cane sugar and corn syrup, both less expensive to produce, as well as from artificial sweeteners such as saccharine and aspartame, led to a further decline in beet sugar prices. By the early 1980s, the Ovid, Bayard and Lovell factories were forced to close their doors when local beet growers refused to continue planting sugar beets. The Mountain States Beet Growers Association attempted to purchase six factories from Great Western in 1984, but their bid was too low and the Hunts filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in bankruptcy court.

In 1985, the Great Western Sugar Company was forced to lay off 350 employees. A Colorado and Kansas growers' association purchased the few Colorado factories that were still operational for $67 million. The Holly Sugar Corporation purchased Great Western's operations in Louisiana and Ohio, and the firm of Tate and Lyle bought the remaining Nebraska, Billings and Lovell plants, along with the Great Western logo, trademark and name.

Much of the historical information provided above is summarized from "A Brief History of the Great Western Sugar Company," an archival report prepared by Michael Goolsby and Michael McDermott, available in the collection files. More comprehensive historical accounts of the sugar company are found in The Great Western Sugarlands: History of the Great Western Sugar Company by William John May (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1982) and The Grand Old Days of Great Western, published by the Great Western Sugar Company in 1960. Other sources of information on Great Western and the sugar beet industry in general include Elvon L. Howe's GW (Great Western Sugar Company, 1955) and The Beet Sugar Story, U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 1959.

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Scope and Contents

The Records of the Great Western Sugar Company consists of photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, audio and videotapes and motion picture films produced by company photographers. Most of the photographs are black-and-white, but there are also a small number of color prints in the collection. A few boxes of textual materials are included, although most of the textual company records were donated by Great Western to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The photographs and documents are dated 1893 to 1984, with the bulk falling from 1950 to 1975. Photograph subjects include Great Western employees, factories, farms and farming equipment, growers and laborers.

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Arrangement

The collection consists of seven series in forty-two boxes:

Series I: Photographic prints and contact sheets, 1893-1983 and undated
Subseries A: Subseries A: Locations, 1893-1821 and undated
Subseries B: Subjects, 1903-1983 and undated
Subseries C: Company codes, 1921-1981 and undated
Series II: Negatives, 1971-1976 and undated
Series III: Photographic slides, 1947-1984 and undated
Series IV: Motion picture films, 1946-1947, 1965, 1970 and undated
Series V: Audio and videotapes, 1972-1982 and undated
Series VI: Printing plates, 1976 and undated
Series VII: Textual records, 1916-1978 and undated

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Records of the Great Western Sugar Company, Colorado Agricultural Archive, Colorado State University.

Custodial History

The photographic records and related textual files had previously been stored by Great Western at the company's Mono Hy office in Longmont, Colorado. In March 1990, forty boxes of textual materials pertaining to Great Western operations were transferred from the Colorado Agricultural Archive to the Western Historical Collections of the University of Colorado Libraries.

Acquisition

The Records of the Great Western Sugar Company was donated to the Colorado Agricultural Archive on March 8, 1988, by Larry D. Steward, Vice President of the Great Western Sugar Company. In 1990, additional Great Western Sugar Company photographic materials were transferred from the Western Historical Collections of the University of Colorado Libraries to the Colorado Agricultural Archive. The Colorado Agricultural Archive became part of the Colorado State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department in 2004.

Processing

The collection was received in disorder. Some of the photographs were housed in labeled file folders or envelopes, but many were loose in the boxes. Preliminary inventories were created in 1988 and 1989. Archival students Joe Coca, Peggy Culbert and Diana Wess sorted the collection in 1991 by material type, then grouped photographic prints in acid-free folders according to location or subject, if the location was unknown. Negatives were housed in acid-free archival sleeves, and nitrate-based negatives were isolated and will be disposed of after prints or digital images are made from them. Additional processing is planned for the slides, audio and videotapes, 16mm films and textual materials within this collection.

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Related Material

Related Material

Additional information concerning the cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets may be found in the Records of the Colorado Cooperative Extension, the Records of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station and the Papers of Daniel W. Working, all housed in the Colorado Agricultural Archive at Colorado State University. The textual records of the Great Western Sugar Company are preserved in the Western Americana collection in the Archives of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Series Descriptions

Series I: Photographic prints and contact sheets, 1893-1983 and undated (27 linear feet)

This series consists of photographic prints and contact sheets. Subjects include employees of the Great Western Sugar Company, factories, farms and farming equipment, growers and laborers. Sizes of the photographs range from 1x2 inches to 8x10 inches. This series is divided into three subseries.
Subseries A: Locations, 1893-1982 and undated
The photographs in this subseries are arranged according to state and city, using information provided on the photographs or on the original packaging. Folders are in alphabetical order.
Subseries B: Subjects, 1903-1983 and undated
The photographs in this subseries were not identified by location, and the folders follow an alphabetical arrangement according to subject matter. In an exception to strictly alphabetical order, the groups of folders titled "People (Identified)" and "People (Unidentified) precede folders titled "People" with specific identifiers such as "Beet Labor Musicians."
Subseries C: Company codes, 1921-1981 and undated
The photographs and contact sheets in this subseries are filed in folders identified by the code labels used in the company filing system. Arrangement is alphabetical.

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Series II: Negatives, 1971-1976 and undated (9 linear feet)

This series consists of photographic safety negatives, as well as one box of glass plate negatives, that correspond to many of the photographic prints in Series I. Negative sizes include 35mm, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches, 4x5 inches and 8x10 inches. They are arranged according to size and type, and then alphabetically by location or subject. A preliminary inventory of this series is available in the collection file.

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Series III: Photographic slides, 1947-1984 and undated (4.5 linear feet)

This series includes paper and plastic mounted color slides, stereo slides and glass stereo slides. They are arranged according to slide type, then alphabetically by location or subject. Subjects include sugar beet research, fertilizers, machinery, people, factories, beet dumps and insects. A slide presentation called "The Mono Hy Story" is included. A preliminary inventory of this series is available in the collection file.

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Series IV: Motion picture films, 1946-1947, 1965, 1970 and undated (12 linear feet)

This series includes 16mm color and black-and-white films. The raw footage films are numbered by reel, and are arranged numerically. The finished feature films are arranged alphabetically by title. Footage includes scenes of fields, agricultural equipment in action, seed germination in laboratories, planting, harvesting, beet dumps and factory operations. A preliminary inventory of this series is available in the collection file.

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Series V: Audio and videotapes, 1972-1982 and undated (1.5 linear feet)

This series consists of audio cassette and reel-to-reel tapes and obsolete format videotapes. Titles of the audio cassettes include "The Mono Hy Story," "The Last American Supper" and "Sakata-Nelson Interview and GW Jingle." Further arrangement and description of materials within this series is expected.

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Series VI: Printing plates, 1976 and undated (1.5 linear feet)

This series consists of small photographic printing plates used in company publications. Many feature photographic images of individuals from Eaton, Colorado. Further arrangement and description of materials within this series is expected.

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Series VII: Textual records, 1916-1978 and undated (7.5 linear feet)

This series consists of textual materials that may assist in identifying the photographic collection, including Great Western publications, bulletins, biographical data and an indexing system for prints and slides. A preliminary inventory of this series is available in the collection file.

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Inventory

Series I: Photographic prints and contact sheets

Box Folder
Subseries A: Locations.
1 1 Colorado - Adams County - Agricultural Laborers - October 1939.
One photograph of a field worker topping beets.
1 2 Colorado - Adams County - Agriculture.
Two photographs of a topped sugar beet and trucks at a beet dump. October 1939.
1 3 Colorado - Atwood - People - Brotzman, Harry.
Two photographs of wells, one driven by a belt attached to a tractor.
1 4 Colorado - Atwood - People - Kaufman, Elmer, Thoven, Wm. D - June 4 1963.
Four photographs of fields, people and machinery.
1 5 Colorado - Ault - People - Kleben Brothers - October 10, 1962.
Photographs of people, machinery and a dairy operation.
1 6 Colorado - Berthoud - Agricultural Laborers - Braceros - October 24, 1961.
Eleven photographs of laborers in the fields, with growers, and with their families.
1 7 Colorado - Brighton - Agricultural Laborers.
One photograph of laborers in a field.
1 8 Colorado - Brighton - Agricultural Machinery. undated.
Five photographs of machinery in a field and at a beet dump.
1 9 Colorado - Brighton - Agricultural Machinery - GW Multiplex - February 2, 1963.
Nine photographs of close-up views of machinery.
1 10 Colorado - Brighton - Factory.
Three photographs of interior of factory and workers. 1939.
1 11-14 Colorado - Brighton - Factory - Exterior.
Two photographs of exterior in 1917; the rest ca. 1960s.
1 15 Colorado - Brighton - Factory Machinery - Diffuser Modification - September 1964.
Six photographs of equipment, close-up views.
1 16 Colorado - Brighton - Labor Housing.
Twenty small photographs of house exteriors.
1 17 Colorado - Brighton - People (Identified).
Seven small photographs and two contact sheets.
1 18 Colorado - Brighton - People - Brighton Institute - February 1961.
Seven 8x10 photographs.
1 19 Colorado - Brighton - People - Colo. Committee of Agriculture, Clint Jeffers on Tour.
Two contact sheets.
1 20 Colorado - Brighton - People - Eisenhower - September 14, 1954.
Twelve 8x10 photographs of President Eisenhower with GW officials and sugar beets.
1 21 Colorado - Brighton - People - High Ten.
Three group photographs and one portrait.
1 22 Colorado - Brighton - People - Lands, Lloyd - June 8, 1960.
Three portraits of Lloyd and Adam Land.
1 23 Colorado - Brighton - Publicity.
One flyer promoting the Lewis-Blevins beet harvester, 1919.
1 24 Colorado - Brighton - Weeds - Endothal.
Five photographs of beet fields and weeds.
1 25 Colorado - Brush - Agricultural Machinery.
One photograph of machinery at a beet dump.
1 26 Colorado - Brush - Factory.
Two photographs of factory exterior.
1 27 Colorado - Brush - People (Identified).
Seven photographs, 1906, 1933, 1963 and undated.
1 28 Colorado - Brush - People - Eicher, Paul - June 4, 1963.
Two photographs of grower Paul Eicher and his field, with carbon of letter from Eicher.
1 29 Colorado - Brush - Publicity - Forrest, Lew.
1908 photograph of Lew Forrest and his mail carrying horse and buggy, mounted on cardboard. The photograph is accompanied by a brief history of Lew Forrest.
1 30 Colorado - Burlington - Farms - Zwygardt, Delmar.
Four small photographs of Burlington landscape and machinery.
1 31 Colorado - Burlington - Labor Housing.
Three small photographs of labor housing, seen from a distance.
1 32 Colorado - Burlington - People (Identified).
Portraits of Burlington officials.
1 33 Colorado - Burlington - Weeds - Fall 1965.
Detailed sheets of fields and weeds.
1 34 Colorado - Crook - People (Identified).
One portrait of Arthur Crook, who worked in the labor department
1 35 Colorado - Denver - Advertisements.
Advertisements mailed to area grocers promoting Great Western, as well as an ad for a prize of $10,000 to anyone who could invent a sugar beat puller and topper.
1 36 Colorado - Denver - Annual Report - 1973.
A variety of photographs ranging from factory shots, to Hungarians, to Lakers players.
1 37 Colorado - Denver - Buildings - Sugar Building.
Photographs of historic Denver building. Dates range from 1910 to 1982; exterior and interior photographs included.
1 38-40 Colorado - Denver - General Office-views of office and furniture.
Over 60 photographs of the interior and exterior of the Denver building, including photographs of nearby Denver buildings and employees at work. ca. late 1950s.
1 41-43 Colorado - Denver - General Office, Auto Lot, Warehouse.
Approximately 30 pictures of the building and surrounding lot.
1 44-46 Colorado - Denver - Montana, Billings - People - 50th Anniversary Dinners - January 1955.
Over 30 photographs of the anniversary dinner. Includes candid photographs of growers, officials, and women in evening gowns.
1 47 Colorado - Denver - People (Identified) - General Office - Accounting Department.
Large and small portraits of accountants.
1 48 Colorado - Denver - People (Identified) - General Office - Agricultural Executives.
Mostly portraits of executives, and some candid photographs of a meeting.
1 49-50 Colorado - Denver - People (Identified) - General Office - Directors and Founders.
Over 30 portraits and candid photographs of company officials, including one reproduction of an 1894 photograph of the Oxnard brothers in San Francisco.
1 51 Colorado - Denver - People (Identified) - General Office - Engineering Department.
Portraits of five engineers of the 1950s.
1 52 Colorado - Denver - People (Identified) - General Office - Executives.
Portraits of executives, including female executive Martha K. Evans.
1 53 Colorado - Denver - People (Identified) - General Office - Sales Department.
Portraits of sales executives.
1 54 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - Chief Chemists - 1928.
A group photograph of chemists.
1 55 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - Director's Tours - Individuals and Groups.
A large collection of 5x7 and 8x10 photographs showing tours of area factory operations.
1 56 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Accounting Department.
Portraits of accountants.
1 57 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Agricultural Executives.
Portraits of agricultural executives, with a few group photographs.
1 58 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Engineering Department.
Portraits of engineers, some making speeches.
1 59-62 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Executive Groups.
5x7 and 8x10 photographs, ca. 1960s. Groups, meetings, speeches, and awards.
2 1 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Executives and Supervisors.
5x7 and 8x10 photographs of various functions. Also includes a newsletter that chronicles Thomas Ferrel's work as a newspaper man, poet, and Great Western's press agent.
2 2 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Miscellaneous Groups and Activities.
Photographs of dinners, ball games, speeches, plays, birthday parties, bowling, etc. Good photograph quality; includes many photographs of women.
2 3 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Operating and Chemical Executives.
Standard portraits of executives, multiples of most photographs.
2 4 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Purchasing Department.
A few group photographs, and some duplicates.
2 5 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Retired and Deceased Personnel.
Portraits and some candid photographs.
2 6 Colorado - Denver - People (Unidentified) - General Office - Sales Department Executives.
Standard portraits, with some group photographs.
2 7 Colorado - Denver - People - Ag Club Awards - February 1975.
Two contact sheets of groups holding award ceremonies.
2 8 Colorado - Denver - People - Boettcher, Charles.
One portrait of Boettcher from the early 1920s.
2 9 Colorado - Denver - People - Economics Institute - 1976.
Includes class schedule for economics school of intercultural programs for foreign students visiting Great Western. One contact sheet of student photographs.
2 10 Colorado - Denver - People - Fellowship Program.
Information regarding the fellowship program and two small photographs of leaders.
2 11 Colorado - Denver - People - General Office - Bunker, John.
Ten different portraits of John Bunker.
2 12 Colorado - Denver - People - General Office - Cross, Earl.
Portrait of Earl Cross.
2 13 Colorado - Denver - People - Kemp and Texas - 1963.
The president of Great Western visits Texas; includes photographs of meetings as well as a photograph of Kemp standing on a large hill of beets.
2 14-15 Colorado - Denver - People - Kemp, Frank A., President.
Portraits and candid photographs, including shots of Kemp playing baseball.
2 16 Colorado - Denver - People - Kemp Pennant Party - 1975.
Over 30 5x7 photographs of a Great Western gathering, plus three contact sheets.
2 17 Colorado - Denver - People - MFG Meeting - September 1975.
One contact sheet; photographs of a speech by an unidentified man, plus audience photographs.
2 18 Colorado - Denver - People - Morey, Chester Stephen, President.
One portrait of Chester Morey, plus a short biography of his life.
2 19 Colorado - Denver - People - Old Timer's Baseball.
Good photographs of the Great Western-sponsored baseball teams; several different teams ranging in age. Includes programs and news clippings.
2 20 Colorado - Denver - People - Owen, Robert, President.
Several portraits, small candid photographs of a dinner, clippings, and Owen's biography.
2 21 Colorado - Denver - People - Technical Society - Ladies Nite and Golf Tournament.
Photographs of golf and ladies night.
2 22 Colorado - Denver - People - Technical Society Dinners, Speakers, Groups, etc..
Photographs of dinners, speeches, etc. Unidentified.
2 23 Colorado - Denver - People - Tour - Englishmen - May 21, 1964.
News clippings, schedules, and photographs of a visit by British sugar authorities.
2 24 Colorado - Denver - People - Tour - Frenchmen - 1962.
Candid 8x10 and information about the French sugar beet industry visit.
2 25 Colorado - Denver - People - Tour - Japanese - November 24, 1961.
Candid pictures, programs, and information about visit by Japanese sugar officials.
2 26 Colorado - Denver - People - Tour - Russian Visitors - September 30, 1960.
Seven contact sheets of Russian visitors in a sugar beet field.
2 27 Colorado - Denver - People - White, William M..
Several photographs of White, a 4th generation sugar beet man, with a short biography.
2 28 Colorado - Denver - People - Wilber, George, Jr. - 1972.
Six portraits of Wilber.
2 29 Colorado - Denver - Public Relations.
Publicity photographs of women with sugar beets and lounging by irrigation ditches.
2 30 Colorado - Denver - Public Relations - L.T. Jensen Memorial Golf Tournament.
One contact sheet of a golf tournament.
2 31-32 Colorado - Denver - Quarterly Reports - 1968-1972.
Several family and group photographs of top successful growers.
2 33 Colorado - Denver - Quarterly Reports - 1973-1974.
Sugar beet facilities and construction sites. One color photograph of Japanese export.
3 1 Colorado - Denver - Quarterly Reports - 1976.
Photographs of parties, chemists, and products.
3 2 Colorado - Eaton - Agricultural Machinery.
Photographs of beet farming in Eaton.
3 3 Colorado - Eaton - Bag Factory - 1937.
Photographs of women sewing sugar bags.
3 4 Colorado - Eaton - Factory.
Photographs of the Eaton factory; some from the 1950s, others much older.
3 5 Colorado - Eaton - Factory - Safety Awards - 1971.
One photograph of an award ceremony.
3 6 Colorado - Eaton - Farms - Hendrickson, John.
Photographs of Hendrickson's farm and field, with some written information.
3 7 Colorado - Eaton - Farms - Johnson, Walter - July 22, 1960.
Three photographs of Johnson and his field, with a short narrative.
3 8 Colorado - Eaton - Farms - Tormey, Dale - July 22, 1960.
One photograph of Tormey in front of his field, holding a sign explaining his crop.
3 9 Colorado - Eaton - Labor Housing.
Three small photographs of Eaton labor housing.
3 10 Colorado - Eaton - Mail box - Winder, Robert D..
Several photographs of a mailbox with a tire pit behind it.
3 11 Colorado - Eaton - People (Identified).
Portraits of Eaton growers, with the names written on the back.
3 12 Colorado - Eaton - People - High Ten.
Group photographs of the most successful Eaton growers.
3 13 Colorado - Erie - Labor Housing.
Two 5x7s of a small white labor house.
3 14 Colorado - Estes Park - Family Outing - 1973.
Several 5x7s of a dinner in Estes Park, with two contact sheets.
3 15 Colorado - Fort Collins - Cityscape.
One small post card of Fort Collins showing College Ave. in the 1920s.
3 16 Colorado - Fort Collins - Colorado State University.
Approximately 25 photographs of CSU from the 1940s and 1950s. Includes aerial views.
3 17 Colorado - Fort Collins - Colorado State University - Crop Sequence Study.
Over 30 photographs of corn and beet crop success rate using various agricultural methods. No people pictured.
3 18 Colorado - Fort Collins - Colorado State University - Hinchiff, Paul.
Scenic views of area farming from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Photographs of trucks full of beets and farmers with their loads.
3 19 Colorado - Fort Collins - Colorado State University - Soil Testing Station.
Good quality photographs from the 1960s, featuring female technicians.
3 20 Colorado - Fort Collins - Colorado State University - Women in Agriculture.
Photographs and narratives of women raising pigs, planting crops, and cutting meat.
3 21 Colorado - Fort Collins - Experiment Station.
5x7 and 3x5 photographs of the dedication of the new Experiment Station.
3 22 Colorado - Fort Collins - Factory.
Three early postcards of the Fort Collins beet pulp factory.
3 23 Colorado - Fort Collins - Farms.
Scenic views from the early 1940s; horse drawn plows and farming in the snow.
3 24 Colorado - Fort Collins - Harmony Station.
One small photograph of an elderly women standing outside the Harmony Station.
3 25 Colorado - Fort Collins - People (Identified).
Small portraits of Fort Collins farmers.
3 26 Colorado - Fort Collins - People - Tsuchija, Takumi - Beet Research Grant.
Five duplicates of Colorado State University photographs of professors.
3 27 Colorado - Fort Lupton - Cityscapes.
Two early postcards of Fort Lupton in 1905, one showing the main street.
3 28 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Agricultural Machinery.
Photograph of early machinery and one postcard from 1920.
3 29 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Agriculture.
One 1925 photograph of two growers, plus photographs of fields and a parade float of beets.
3 30 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Agriculture - Harvesting.
Over 20 small color photographs of harvesting operations.
3 31 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Cityscapes.
Four photographs of a 1950s parade.
3 32 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Factory.
Several photographs of the Great Western factory from different angles.
3 33 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Factory (construction before second set of sugar bins).
Early photographs of pre-construction for the factory, including one color photograph.
3 34 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Factory (construction sugar end expansion).
8x10s of early construction.
3 35 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Factory Machinery.
Three 5x7s of machinery.
3 36 Colorado - Fort Morgan - Factory - Tour - June 12, 1961 .
Greeley college professors and students toured factory; four photographs and a program.
3 37 Colorado - Fort Morgan - People (Identified).
Top growers pictured, some photographs of labor housing and letters included.
3 38 Colorado - Fort Morgan - People (Unidentified).
Group photographs of 4-H winners.
3 39 Colorado - Fort Morgan - People - 4-H - January 18, 1968.
Group photographs of 4-H participants.
3 40 Colorado - Fort Morgan - People - FFA - January 1968.
Group photographs of FFA members.
3 41 Colorado - Fort Morgan - People - Kembel, Henry and Le - June 4, 1963.
Two photographs of the top growers, and memos regarding their farm.
3 42 Colorado - Greeley - Agricultural Machinery.
Small photographs of early 1940s machinery.
3 43 Colorado - Greeley - Agriculture.
Two color photographs of landscapes in Greeley.
3 44 Colorado - Greeley - Cityscape.
Four postcards of Greeley in the early 1900s, showing the college and main street.
3 45 Colorado - Greeley - Factory.
Photographs of the Greeley factory and labor housing.
3 46 Colorado - Greeley - Factory (construction pulp dryer and diffuser - 1963.
A large assortment of photographs of factory construction.
3 47 Colorado - Greeley - Factory (exterior, before erection of pulp dryers).
Photographs of Greeley factory from a high vantage point.
3 48 Colorado - Greeley - Factory (exterior, with pulp dryer, 1963 and later).
Photographs of factory and the road leading to it.
3 49 Colorado - Greeley - Factory (exterior with sugar bins, 1966 and later).
Over 20 photographs of exterior views of the property.
3 50 Colorado - Greeley - Factory Meeting.
One contact sheet and several 5x7 photographs of a meeting.
3 51 Colorado - Greeley - Managers Meeting on Labor - April 19, 1962.
Group photograph of meeting.
3 52 Colorado - Greeley - People (Identified).
Portraits and group candid photographs of Greeley officials.
3 53 Colorado - Greeley - People (Unidentified).
3x5s and 8x10s of Greeley workers in the fields and in trucks.
3 54 Colorado - Greeley - People - 4-H Beet Club Winners - 1940.
Photograph of a boy holding large beets.
3 55 Colorado - Greeley - People - High Ten.
Group photograph of top growers with names on the back.
3 56 Colorado - Holyoke - Agriculture.
Photographs of field workers, including some color photographs.
3 57 Colorado - Hudson - People (Identified).
Small photographs of Hudson growers loading their trucks with beets.
3 58 Colorado - Johnstown - Factory (construction).
Snapshots from 1920-1921 of the Johnstown factory being built.
3 59 Colorado - Johnstown - Factory (exterior sugar factory and MSG plant).
Photographs of various stages of factory development, plus some photographs of people.
3 60-62 Colorado - Johnstown - Factory - Molasses Plant (construction).
Photographs from 1925, capturing all aspects of the factory construction.
3 63 Colorado - Johnstown - Factory - MSG Plant (interior stations and station men 1960).
Two prints of a male employee.
3 64 Colorado - Johnstown - Factory - Sugar Warehouse.
Factory construction pictures from 1920.
3 65 Colorado - Keensburg - Farms - Weicker Farms.
Two photographs of a small white house.
3 66 Colorado - Keensburg District - Tour - Sugar Beet Root Maggot - July 18, 1972.
Five 8x10 photographs of area growers and botanists checking beets for maggots.
4 1 Colorado - Kersey - People (Identified) - Cockcroft - June 23, 1961.
Several photographs of a Cockcroft father and son and their machinery.
4 2 Colorado - LaSalle - Agricultural Machinery.
One small photograph of a farm truck and tractor.
4 3 Colorado - Longmont - Agricultural Machinery.
Three photographs of old farming machinery.
4 4-5 Colorado - Longmont - Agricultural Research Center.
Several photographs and contact sheets of Petri dishes and research teams testing plants.
4 6 Colorado - Longmont - Agricultural Research Center - 1967.
Agricultural photographs, machinery, fields; plus several original cut lines and charts.
4 7 Colorado - Longmont - Agricultural Research Center - Agricultural Machinery.
Photographs of machinery in the field, with close-ups of the blades.
4 8 Colorado - Longmont - Agricultural Research Center - Walt Grass Test.
Over 50 3x5 color photographs of beets and the effects of different chemicals on them.
4 9 Colorado - Longmont - Agriculture - Development of Monogerm - September 28, 1961.
Several photographs of a beet field ready to be harvested.
4 10 Colorado - Longmont - Agriculture - History.
Scenic photographs of early Colorado/Longmont landscape showing people, horses, snow.
4 11 Colorado - Longmont - Ditch - May 17, 1962.
Scenic photograph of a Longmont canal with Longs Peak in the background, and a man sitting on a tractor.
4 12 Colorado - Longmont - Experiment Station.
One aerial photograph of Longmont and photographs of buildings and people.
4 13 Colorado - Longmont - Experiment Station - Korean Tour - July 1972.
Photographs of Korean officials touring the factory and eating in a tent.
4 14 Colorado - Longmont - Factory.
A few 8x10s of the factory and aerial view.
4 15 Colorado - Longmont - Hail - June 6, 1961.
Photographs of hail damage to the crops.
4 16 Colorado - Longmont - Irrigation.
Good quality photographs of field irrigation.
4 17 Colorado - Longmont - Labor Housing.
Photographs of houses, some with residents in front.
4 18 Colorado - Longmont - People (Identified).
Portraits and field photographs of area farmers, with memos.
4 19 Colorado - Longmont - People (Identified) - Agriculture Research Center.
5x7 photographs of researchers.
4 20 Colorado - Longmont - People (Unidentified).
Small photographs of men in hard hats inspecting machinery and fields.
4 21 Colorado - Longmont - People - 4-H.
Group photographs of top 4-H winners, with an information sheet of names.
4 22 Colorado - Longmont - People - Barnes, Frank - July 22, 1960.
Candid and posed 8x10s of Barnes and his field machinery, tractors, and beets.
4 23 Colorado - Longmont - People - High Ten.
Posed individual and group photographs of area growers, with names written on back.
4 24 Colorado - Longmont - People - Turks - October 29, 1963.
One 8x10 photograph of Turkish visitors, memos and a program from the event.
4 25 Colorado - Longmont - Research Committee.
Portraits and landscapes.
4 26 Colorado - Longmont - Seed Plant - July 21, 1960.
Five photographs of seeds.
4 27 Colorado - Longmont - Tour - Daily Times Call Beef Tour Photographs.
Men and women dressed in semi-formal attire touring livestock yards.
4 28 Colorado - Longmont - Tour - Missouri Legislation Group - July 7, 1961.
8x10 photograph of group tours, little girls and group photographs, with memos.
4 29 Colorado - Longmont - Train in Snowstorm.
5x7s and one 8x10 of a 1920s snowstorm.
4 30 Colorado - Longmont - Weeds.
8x10 photographs of weeds.
4 31 Colorado - Loveland - Factory.
8x10s and 5x7s of the factory. Some from the 1900s show men in the boiler room.
4 32 Colorado - Loveland - Factory - (exterior before second set of sugar bins).
Exterior views of factory from many angles, including night photographs.
4 33 Colorado - Loveland - Factory - (exterior with second set of bins - 1965).
Three photographs of the factory exterior.
4 34 Colorado - Loveland - Factory Laborers.
3x5 postcards showing Loveland laborers in the 1900s.
4 35 Colorado - Loveland - Factory Machinery.
One contact sheet of machinery photographs.
4 36 Colorado - Loveland - Labor Housing.
Small snapshots of four labor houses and a sheet with information on each house.
4 37 Colorado - Loveland - People (Identified).
Candid and posed photographs of area farmers.
4 38 Colorado - Loveland - People (Unidentified).
Photographs of laborers watching a speech, standing in hardhats, and receiving awards.
4 39 Colorado - Loveland - People - Geist, Edgar - 1963.
Photographs of Geist and his crop, with memos about his use of herbicides.
4 40 Colorado - Loveland - People - High Ten: Upbeet - 1973, 1977-78.
Group photographs of the top growers and memos on crop success.
4 41 Colorado - Loveland - People - Zoller, Emanuel and Ellsworth - July 22, 1960.
Four photographs of the Zoller brothers, with handwritten notes.
4 42 Colorado - Loveland - Publicity - Industrial Days - September 1968.
One color snapshot of GW products in a store front.
4 43 Colorado - Northern - People - 4-H and FFA - 1971-72.
Group photographs of 4-H winners with their trophies, including names and placings.
4 44 Colorado - Ovid - Contact Sheets -1966.
One contact sheet with written descriptions.
4 45 Colorado - Ovid - Factory (exterior before second set of bins - 1967).
Photographs of the factory; none include people.
4 46 Colorado - Ovid - Factory (exterior with second set of bins - 1967).
Photographs of the factory from different angles and times of day.
4 47 Colorado - Ovid - People (Identified).
Posed and candid shots of Ovid people, names included on back.
4 47 Colorado - Ovid - People - High Ten - January 9, 1979.
Two group portraits, plus information sheets.
4 48 Colorado - Ovid - People - High Ten: Upbeet 1977.
One group photograph, with memos and other information sheets.
4 49 Colorado - Ovid - People - Weigel, Pat - Crook - May 25, 1960.
Photographs of Weigel standing in his field and on his tractor, with memos.
4 50 Colorado - People - 4-H -1967.
Photographs of winners, prize cows, news clippings, letters, and programs.
4 51 Colorado - Platteville - Agricultural Machinery.
5x7 and 3x5 photographs of a man plowing his field.
4 52 Colorado - Platteville - GW Service Center.
Plans and photographs of the service center, with some photographs of tractors.
4 53 Colorado - Platteville - People - Wilhelm Family - July 1975.
Two contact sheets of Wilhelm and his family.
4 54 Colorado - Sterling - Factory.
Photographs of early factory.
4 55 Colorado - Sterling - Factory (exterior before erection of sugar bins).
Photographs showing various angles of the factory, in all types of weather.
4 56 Colorado - Sterling - Factory (exterior with sugar bins - 1965 and later).
Photographs of bins and construction, with photographs of people.
4 57 Colorado - Sterling - People (Identified).
Two contact sheets of growers.
4 58 Colorado - Sterling - People - High Ten.
One group photograph and a program from High Ten.
4 59 Colorado - Sterling - People - Ils, Johns - May 25, 1960.
Three 8x10 photographs of Ils in his field; poor quality prints.
4 60 Colorado - Upbeet - West Planting.
Photographs of tractors, planting, and farmers.
4 61 Colorado - Wellington - People - Stieber, Robert.
Photographs of Stieber and his tractor.
4 62 Colorado - Windsor - Agricultural Machinery.
Photographs of machinery and men at work.
4 63 Colorado - Windsor - Agriculture - Development of Monogerm - May 24, 1953.
Close up photographs of new tools and charts, and fields.
4 65 Colorado - Windsor - Cityscapes.
One photograph of Windsor Main Street from 1901.
5 1 Colorado - Windsor - Factory.
Photographs of factory and workers dating back to 1905, with some aerial photographs.
5 2 Colorado - Windsor - Factory (exterior).
Various views of factory exterior, and some photographs of workers.
5 3 Colorado - Windsor - Farms.
Photographs of fields and a farmer from the 1930s.
5 4 Colorado - Windsor - People (Identified).
Photographs of Windsor officials, with names on the back.
5 5 Colorado - Windsor - Weeds - Lapaseoted and Stromburger - May 17, 1963.
Various photographs of crop growth and men in the fields.
5 6 Custer - Farms.
Wide, close up, and candid photographs of Mr. Custer standing in his field.
5 7 Illinois - Chicago - Bulk Terminal.
Exterior views of the factory, and photographs of the first model of the factory.
5 8 Illinois - Chicago - Bulk Terminal (interior views).
Photographs of the factory interior, holding bins, pipes, and chemistry rooms.
5 9 Illinois - Chicago - Bulk Terminal Open House.
Photographs of the event, with people in fancy attire.
5 10 Illinois - Chicago - Skyline Views from Prudential Building.
Scenic photographs of the Chicago skyline.
5 11 Iowa - Mason City - Factory - American Beet Sugar Co. (Album - part 1 of 2).
Beautiful photographs of 1920s factories, trains, women sewing, and small towns.
5 12 Iowa - Mason City - Factory - American Beet Sugar Co. (Album - part 2 of 2).
Photographs of old tug boats, men in goggles, and factory.
5 13 Kansas - Goodland - Agricultural Machinery.
Two contact sheets of tractors and other machinery.
5 14 Kansas - Goodland - Kemp District - Irrigation.
One contact sheet showing irrigation and farmers.
5 15 Kansas - Goodland - Kemp Factory.
Photographs of the factory exterior.
5 16 Kansas - Goodland - Kemp Factory (Aerial).
One black-and-white and four color aerial photographs of the factory.
5 17 Kansas - Goodland - Kemp Factory (exterior and construction views).
Photographs of factory construction, a few including workers.
5 18 Kansas - Goodland - Kemp Factory - Dedication.
Photographs of twins, orchestras, and a giant cake shaped like the factory at the event.
5 19 Kansas - Goodland - Kemp Factory - Dedication - Case history study.
History of the factory, over 20 pages with photographs, and blueprints.
5 20 Kansas - Goodland - People (Identified).
Portraits of men, with names written on the back.
5 21 Kansas - Goodland - People (Unidentified).
A large group photograph from 1975.
5 22 Kansas - Goodland - People - High Ten.
Four small portraits and group shots of area growers, including one woman.
5 23 Kansas - Goodland - Tour - French Visitors.
4x5 photographs of men in fields and factories.
5 24 Kansas - Salinas - People - Sairtsky, V.F. and Helen - MacFarlay, John.
Small color photographs of young beet plants in a greenhouse.
5 25-26 Louisiana - Godchaux-Henderson (Unidentified) - 1975.
Photographs of the factory, a southern plantation and African-American servants.
5 27 Louisiana - Godchaux-Henderson - Contact Sheets - 1975.
Contact sheets of the photographs in the above two folders.
5 28 Louisiana - Godchaux-Henderson Factory.
Photographs of the factory exterior, and interior processes. Some color photographs.
5 29 Louisiana - Godchaux-Henderson Factory - Layout Map.
Large folded maps of the factory with descriptions, no photographs included.
5 30 Louisiana - Godchaux-Henderson - People (Identified).
One water-damaged photograph of an award ceremony and one photograph of officials.
5 31 Louisiana - Godchaux-Henderson - People (Unidentified).
Office photographs and portraits of employees.
5 32 Louisiana -Godchaux-Henderson - People (Unidentified) - 1975.
Contact sheets showing officials and ceremonies.
5 33 Louisiana - Vacherie - Oak Alley.
Scenic view of a large southern plantation house and driveway between oak trees.
5 34 Michigan - Bay City - Receiving - October 19, 1955.
Eight exterior photographs of receiving area.
5 35 Michigan - Ottawa Lake - Factory Machinery.
Two photographs of beet loading stations from 1955.
5 36 Missouri - St. Louis - Factory Machiner.
Various views of factory machinery.
5 37 Missouri - St. Louis - Factory Terminal -1963.
Exterior photographs of factory and photographs of the factory model.
5 38 Montana - Billings - Agricultural Labor.
Photographs of laborers, mostly Mexican workers, and letters explaining the photographs.
5 39 Montana - Billings - Agricultural Machinery.
Color photographs of growers and tractors.
5 40 Montana - Billings - Factory (exterior with 10 sugar bins - 1961 and later).
Photographs of the factory building from several angles.
5 41 Montana - Billings - Factory (exterior with 6 sugar bins before 1961).
Photographs of the factory and surrounding areas.
5 42 Montana - Billings - Factory - Sugar Pan Wreck - September 27, 1968.
Photographs of the sugar bin wreck, with an informational pamphlet about it.
5 43 Montana - Billings - Labor Housing.
Small photographs of the exterior of a labor house and residents and one contact sheet of the interior.
5 44 Montana - Billings - Nebraska, Alliance - People (Unidentified).
Photographs of men and women talking on CB radios and phones. Some field photographs.
5 45 Montana - Billings - People (Identified).
Portraits of a couple, plus one contact sheet.
5 46 Montana - Billings - People - High Ten.
Group shots of top growers with names on back.
5 47 Montana - Billings - People - Tour - Alberta Canada Sugarbeet Growers - 1969.
Snapshots of group tour in front of a bus.
5 48 Montana - Billings - Sugar Beet Fertilizer Test - 1947.
One photograph of a man in a business suit on a tractor, plus and other field photographs.
5 49 Montana - Billings - Weeds.
Photographs of weeds.
5 50 Montana - Billings - Wyoming, Lovell - Agriculturalist Meeting.
One contact sheet of a meeting, with planes in view.
5 51 Montana - Billings - Wyoming, Lovell - Factory (Aerial).
Poor quality photographs of the factory.
5 52 Montana - Billings - Wyoming, Lovell - People (Unidentified).
Contact sheets of people posing by machinery.
6 1 Montana - Bozeman - Labor Community Meetings - September 15, 1944.
One group photograph of men in suits.
6 2 Montana - Bozeman - Labor Meeting - March 20, 1944.
One group photograph of men in suits.
6 3 Montana - Harding - Native Americans - Crow Indians Soil Conservation Meeting.
Snapshots of Native Americans in ceremonial dress meeting with representatives.
6 4 Montana - Maudru - People - Mile, Ted - November 1945.
Photographs of Mile and his operations and machinery.
6 5 Montana - Missoula - Factory (construction).
Photographs of the construction in 1920.
6 6 Montana - Scenery.
Photographs of cliffs and farmland in the background.
6 7 Nebraska - Alliance - Farms - Nagaki Brothers.
Several photographs of Nagaki in his field, with handwritten notes.
6 8 Nebraska - Bayard - Agricultural machinery.
Photographs of John Deere tractors at work in the fields.
6 9 Nebraska, Bayard - Chimney Rock.
Two photographs of Chimney Rock, one with a man on a tractor in the foreground.
6 10 Nebraska - Bayard - Factory.
Two photographs of Bayard area, one of an old cabin in the 1920s, the other of the factory.
6 11 Nebraska - Bayard - Factory (explosion).
Photographs of debris and wreckage of the factory, including smashed cars.
6 12 Nebraska - Bayard - Factory (exterior before erection of sugar bins).
Exterior photographs of the factory.
6 13 Nebraska - Bayard - Factory (exterior with sugar bins - 1964 and later).
Photographs from different angles.
6 14 Nebraska - Bayard - People (Identified).
Two contact sheets and one snapshop.
6 15 Nebraska - Bayard - People - Ginn, A.M..
Six photographs provided by Mr. Ginn, with explanatory letters. One photograph is from Fort Morgan, another is of Loveland employees.
6 16 Nebraska - Bayard - People - High Ten.
Group photographs and portraits.
6 17 Nebraska - Big Springs - Factory Machinery - New Piler - 1975.
Two contact sheets with photographs of equipment and people.
6 18 Nebraska - Brule - Irrigation - Schilz, McGinley Company.
Photographs of fields and irrigation
6 19 Nebraska - Gering - Agricultural Laborers - Grasmick, Dairel - Field Riford Station.
Photographs of men working and hoeing fields; one photograph of a businessman plowing beside laborers.
6 20 Nebraska - Gering - Agricultural Machinery.
Two photographs of machinery in the snow; one is actually from Kimball and the other from North Platte.
6 21 Nebraska - Gering - Factory.
Photographs of factory construction, some dating to 1916.
6 22 Nebraska - Gering - Factory (exterior).
Exterior photographs and two contact sheets.
6 23 Nebraska - Gering - Labor Housing.
Snapshots of houses.
6 24 Nebraska - Gering - People (Identified).
Group photographs in the field from 1929, including children playing on tractors.
6 25 Nebraska - Gering - People - High Ten.
Group photographs and portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.
6 26 Nebraska - Lyman - Agricultural Machinery.
One photograph of a 1920s tractor in a field.
6 27 Nebraska - Lyman - Cityscapes.
One photograph of Lyman in 1929, showing old cars on a dirt street.
6 28 Nebraska - Lyman - Factory.
Photographs of the factory from 1929 to 1960.
6 29 Nebraska - Lyman - Factory (construction).
Photographs of each phase of construction from 1920s on, some of employees and crew.
6 30 Nebraska - Lyman - Farms.
Two photographs of hay stacks.
6 31 Nebraska - Lyman - Labor Housing.
Labor housing photographs cut into strips and glued to cardboard, with one group photograph.
6 32 Nebraska - Lyman - People (Identified).
Photographs from the 1930s, showing people on tractors, fields, dogs and children.
6 33 Nebraska - Minatare - Factory (construction).
Photographs of each phase of construction from 1920 to 1926, and some photographs of the crew.
6 34 Nebraska - Mitchell - Agriculture.
Color and black-and-white photographs of the factory, tractors, etc.
6 35 Nebraska - Mitchell - Factory (construction).
Photographs of phases of early 1920s construction.
6 36 Nebraska - Mitchell - Factory (exterior before first set of bins - 1967).
Photographs of factory exterior.
6 37 Nebraska - Mitchell - Factory - (exterior with tall bins - 1967 and later).
Exterior photographs of the factory from several angles.
6 38 Nebraska - Mitchell - Labor Housing.
One small snapshot of a laborer's house.
6 39 Nebraska - Mitchell - People (Identified).
Portraits with names written on the back.
6 40 Nebraska - Mitchell - People - 4-H.
One group award photograph, with information sheets.
6 41 Nebraska - Mitchell - People - High Ten.
Group photographs with information on the backs, and letters of explanation.
6 42 Nebraska - Morrill - Agricultural Machinery - Chester B. Brown's All Purpose Model T Tractor.
1926 tractor with a boy sitting on top.
6 43 Nebraska - People - Hruska, Roman, Senator.
One photograph of Hruska.
6 44 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Agricultural Machinery.
Photographs of farmland, equipment, and some people.
6 45 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Agriculture.
One photograph of a man kneeling by a pile of silage.
6 46 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Cityscapes.
One photograph of a building being constructed in Scottsbluff.
6 47 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Factory.
Photographs of the factory from several angles.
6 48 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Factory (exterior, before second set of sugar bins).
Photographs of fields and the factory; some date from 1910.
6 49 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Factory (exterior with second set of sugar bins - 1962).
Photographs of the factory; some provide an aerial view of the town and factory.
6 50 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Factory (sugar bin construction - 1963).
Summer photographs of the factory.
6 51 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Factory - Tour - Washington Officials.
Photographs of men in suits touring the fields and farms.
6 52 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Farms.
1920s photographs showing farming operations and men in the fields.
6 53 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Labor Housing.
Snapshot of a double-wide trailer house.
6 54 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People (Identified).
Two contact sheets and several portraits of employees.
6 55 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People (Unidentified).
Photographs of people at work.
6 56 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People - 4-H.
Two snapshots of 4-H winners, with information and charts.
6 57 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People - Appreciation Dinner - September 25, 1956.
Over a dozen shots of a lavish dinner, and men standing.
6 58 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People - FFA.
One snapshot of three FFA students seated in front of their trophies.
6 59 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People - High Ten.
Group photographs of top growers, with names written on back.
6 60 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - People - Pennant Awards Banquet - 1974.
Four photographs of two men shaking hands.
6 61 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Scenery.
One 1900s postcard of Scottsbluff, viewed from a tunnel.
6 62 Nebraska - Scottsbluff - Scenery - National Monument - 1960.
Photographs of the monument, including aerial views.
6 63 Nebraska - Upbeet - Planting.
Men on tractors, in fields, and planting.
6 64 Nebraska - Western - Factory (aerial views).
Aerial photographs of factories and of the surrounding Nebraska landscape.
6 65 New York - Yonkers - Factory - National Sugar Refining Co..
One reproduction of an 1893 photograph of a factory on the river.
6 66 Ohio - Agricultural Laborers.
Two very small photographs of men outside a house.
6 67 Ohio - Agricultural Machinery.
Good quality photographs of men by airplanes and farm equipment.
6 68 Ohio - Factory - Receiving.
Black-and-white and color photographs of a factory beet dump, trucks, and boats.
6 69 Ohio - Factory (Unidentified).
One photograph of a factory.
6 70 Ohio - Farmers.
Photographs of farmers and their families in the fields, in their homes and in offices.
7 1 Ohio - Farms (see negatives - Growers).
Over 50 photographs of area growers and their farms; some of women driving tractors.
7 2 Ohio - Findlay - Factory.
Photographs of the factory.
7 3 Ohio - Findlay - Factory (exterior, before erection of sugar bin).
Photographs of the factory, and leading stations.
7 4 Ohio - Findlay - Factory (exterior with sugar bins - 1963 and later).
Photographs from several different angles.
7 5 Ohio - Findlay - Fremont - Factory (aerial).
Aerial photographs showing different views.
7 6 Ohio - Findlay - Fremont - Factory - Employees (individuals and groups).
Photographs of functions; Frank Kemp is pictured in several.
7 7 Ohio - Findlay - People (Identified).
Group candid photographs and portraits; letters pertaining to employees included.
7 8 Ohio - Fremont - Factory.
Exterior photographs of the factory.
7 9 Ohio - Fremont - Factory (exterior, before erection of sugar bins).
Photographs of the factory.
7 10 Ohio - Fremont - Factory (exterior with sugar bins - 1963 and later).
Photographs of the factory, from many angles.
7 11 Ohio - Fremont - Factory - Floods (aerial) - 1959.
Aerial photographs of the flood.
7 12 Ohio - Fremont - Factory - Floods (exterior views) - 1959.
Photographs of the floodwaters, stranded cars, flooded buildings, and men in canoes.
7 13 Ohio - Fremont - Factory - Floods (interior views) - 1959.
Photographs of water damage at the sugar factory; soaked bags, broken machinery.
7 14 Ohio - Fremont - Factory - Floods - People and newspapers - 1959.
Flood meetings and newspaper photographs chronicling the flood.
7 15 Ohio - Fremont - Factory - Floods (views of town and river area) -1959.
Photographs of Main Street after the flood.
7 16 Ohio - Fremont - People (Identified).
Portraits and candid photographs of area employees, with explanatory letters.
7 17 Ohio - Fremont - People (Unidentified).
Snapshots of group gatherings and posed photographs.
7 18 Ohio - People (Unidentified) - June 1975.
Contact sheets of gatherings, dances, bowling, and people in their homes.
7 19 Ohio - People - Tour - JRC - August 1975.
One contact sheet showing people in a field and in a barn.
7 20 Ohio - Scenery.
A series of photographs of a covered bridge on a snowy day.
7 21 Texas - Agricultural Laborers - 1947 and 1975.
Contact sheet of laborers, women and men, posed.
7 22 Texas - Dallas - Terminal (interior and exterior views - March 1961).
Photographs of the factory, people, cheerleaders, men on horses, etc.
7 23 Texas - Dallas - Terminal - Receiving - Contact Sheets - March 1961.
Contact sheets for the above file.
7 24 Texas - Labor Housing.
Contact sheets of labor houses and their occupants.
7 25 Texas - New Mexico - Agriculture - April 1961.
Photographs of men in a field, and one of a tractor in color.
7 26 Texas - Plainsville - Weeds.
Photograph of a field containing weeds, treated and untreated.
7 27 Texas - Weslaco - Labor - Migrant Families in Texas, Labor Agents.
Migrant worker families outside their homes.
7 28 Utah - Ogden - Factory Machinery.
Photographs of loaded trucks.
7 29 Utah - Salt Lake - Factory - First Sugar Factory in Utah.
One historic postcard of the first sugar factory in Utah, owned and operated by Brigham Young.
7 30 Weldona - Hail - May 25, 1937.
Photograph of hail damage in the fields.
7 31 Wyoming - Grey Bull - People - Stevens, Delbert - Barnett Ranch.
Two photographs of a man on a horse with a shovel. 1951.
7 32 Wyoming - Horse Creek - People (Identified).
Three snapshots of employees.
7 33 Wyoming - Laramie - Agriculture - Root Maggot Control.
Photograph with information sheet on maggot control.
7 34 Wyoming - Laramie - University of Wyoming.
One group photograph and two portraits.
7 35 Wyoming - Lovell - Agricultural Machinery.
One photograph of a man on a tractor.
7 36 Wyoming - Lovell - Agriculture.
Two 5x7 photographs of fields. 1923.
7 37 Wyoming - Lovell - Beet storage - K, Canopy storage - O (see negatives file A46).
Approximately 30 5x7s of the beet storage process, people, trucks, and machinery.
7 38 Wyoming - Lovell - Child Labor - 1923.
Two photographs of young boys working in the fields.
7 39 Wyoming - Lovell - Factory.
Photographs of the early and late stages of the factory.
7 40 Wyoming - Lovell - Factory (exterior before erection of sugar bins).
Photographs of the factory from every angle.
7 41 Wyoming - Lovell - Factory (exterior with sugar bins - 1966 and later).
Photographs of the factory from every angle.
7 42 Wyoming - Lovell - Labor Housing.
Photographs of labor housing and occupants.
7 43 Wyoming - Lovell - People (Identified).
Portraits and one photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony.
7 44 Wyoming - Lovell - People (Unidentified) - Lowell Retirement.
Photographs of a retirement party. ca. 1972.
7 45 Wyoming - Lovell - People - High Ten.
Portraits and group photographs.
7 46 Wyoming - People - Wold, John, Congressman.
One 8x10 photograph of Wold.
7 47 Wyoming - Shell Creek - People (Identified) - Hartman.
One 8x10 photograph of Hartman on a tractor in the field.
8 1 Wyoming - Wheatland - Factory.
One 8x10 photograph of the factory exterior.
8 2 Wyoming - Wheatland - Factory (construction).
Early photographs of the factory construction, with notes printed on the photographs.
8 3 Wyoming - Wheatland - State Fair - 1970.
Men in fields, booths, portraits, irrigation shots, farmers, and men sawing.
Subseries B: Subjects.
8 4 Advertising.
Promotional photographs and newspaper clippings about the Kemp factory's one-millionth bag of sugar produced in one season.
8 5 Agricultural - Laborers.
Black-and-white photographs and three cyanotypes of laborers in the fields and at home.
8 6 Agricultural - Laborers - Braceros.
Small photographs of laborers in fields and waiting for buses.
8 7 Agricultural - Labor Housing.
Photographs of housing and residents, with written descriptions and newspaper clippings.
8 8-11 Agricultural Machinery.
Men in fields, using machinery from horse-drawn plows to modern tractors.
8 12 Agricultural Machinery - Beet Toppers.
Pamphlets for Beet Toppers, harvesting equipment, and letters from suppliers.
8 13 Agricultural Machinery - Cultivators.
Two 5x7 photographs of machinery.
8 14-15 Agricultural Machinery - Farm Hand Harvester.
Photographs and publications of suppliers.
8 16 Agricultural Machinery - Farm Implements (Old) Cross Blockers and Manure Loaders.
Advertisements, photographs, and letters about machinery.
8 17 Agricultural Machinery - From Outside Vendors to Through the Leaves.
Black-and-white and color photographs of machinery.
8 18 Agricultural Machinery - Harvesters.
Two photographs of men in front of machinery.
8 19 Agricultural Machinery - Harvesters - Allis Chalmers Company.
News releases and memos from the Chalmers Company.
8 20 Agricultural Machinery - Heath Barnes Harvesters.
2 8x10 photographs of harvesters, including memos and listed features.
8 21 Agricultural Machinery - Hesston Harvesters.
Three photographs, memos, and a flyer.
8 22 Agricultural Machinery - John Deere Harvesters.
Photographs and memos from the company.
8 23 Agricultural Machinery - International Harvesters.
Photographs of International Harvesters.
8 24 Agricultural Machinery - Oppel Harvesters.
Two photographs, plus information on Oppel Harvesters.
8 25 Agricultural Machinery - Silver Grab Roll - February 19, 1963.
Photographs of machinery.
8 26 Agricultural Machinery - Thinning.
Photographs of people in a field, some photographs of just the field.
8 27 Agricultural Machinery - Wesson Harvesters.
Photographs of Wesson harvesters, plus a booklet featuring dancing beets.
8 28-29 Agriculture.
Contact sheets and photographs of fields, machinery, and men in the fields.
8 30 Agriculture ("See corresponding nitrate negative labels").
Photographs of plowing, hoeing, horses, and women in the fields. 1940-1948.
8 31 Agriculture - Beet Stand.
Photographs of beet growing - early stages.
8 32 Agriculture - Early and Late Planting 1943.
Snapshots of early and late planting, some pictures clear, none with people.
8 33 Agriculture - Farms - Harvest.
Photographs of men standing in a field holding large beets.
8 34 Agriculture - Fertility.
Photographs of men in field, testing soil.
8 35 Agriculture - Field Demonstrations.
People pictured in the fields, some awards, children, and women.
8 36 Agriculture - Harvest Scenes.
Photographs of harvest scenes, growers, with names and locations written on the backs.
8 37 Agriculture - Herbicides - May - June 1974.
Application of herbicides, outcomes, and photographs of the processes.
8 38 Agriculture - Insects - Insects and control.
Photographs of insect control, grasshopper machines and beetles.
8 39 Agriculture - Insects - Nematode Kit.
Close up photographs of the instruments and their use, and close up color photographs of beets.
8 40 Agriculture - Insects - Nematodes.
Photographs of nematodes and damage done to beets and fields.
9 1 Agriculture - Minimum Tillage.
Photographs of tilling with a large tractor.
9 2 Agriculture - Planters.
Men in overalls planting with a tractor.
9 3 Agriculture - Root Maggot Control.
Photographs of maggot-free fields.
9 4 Agriculture - Seedbeds.
One photograph of men in the distance looking at the ground.
9 5 Agriculture - Segmented seed.
Promotional photographs, negatives and some photographs of plants and fields.
9 6 Agriculture - Soil sampling.
Photographs of field sampling as well as of women testing soil in laboratories.
9 7 Agriculture - Sugar Beets.
Photographs of beets and their stages of growth.
9 8 Agriculture - Sugar Beets (close-ups).
Photographs of beets growing in a field, showing how far their roots extend into the ground.
9 9 Agriculture - Sugar Beet Research.
Photographs of beets, plants and seeds in labs, Petri dishes and chemical combinations.
9 10 Agriculture - Sugar Beet Roots.
One photograph of close ups of roots.
9 11 Agriculture - Telone/Fumigation Testimonials.
Newspaper clippings featuring stories about beet fumigation, and memos discussing prominent farms.
9 12 Agriculture - Trucks.
Photographs of trucks hauling beets, some with side unloading.
9 13 Agriculture - Weeds.
Photographs of weed treatment, plants and people. 1947.
9 14 Agriculture - Weeds - Herbicide Treatment.
Spraying beet fields, crop dusting and stand-up sprayers. Close-ups of sugar crystals and models of molecules.
9 15 Cityscapes.
Two photographs of a street in an unidentified town, children being pulled in a sled. 1903.
9 16 Factories.
Black-and-white and color photographs of factories and employees.
9 17 Factories - Diffusion Story.
Photographs of factory interiors and men at work, from the 1930s to the 1950s.
9 18 Factories (interiors, diffusers and diffuser erection).
Photographs of factory interiors, machinery and men at work.
9 19 Factories (interiors, miscellaneous stations).
Some men pictured, mostly photographs of interior machinery.
9 20 Factories - Loading station.
Photographs of trucks loading, fields and employees.
9 21 Factories - Old photographs.
Reprints made of early photographs, poor quality; mostly of factories, but some people.
9 22 Factories - Sugar Trucks (bulk, liquid, bag and package).
Photographs of trucks at factories and sugar trucks in downtown Denver.
9 23 Factories - TARE Room.
Photographs of people tarring a building and men in the fields, with contact sheets.
9 24 Factory - Laborers - Union negotiations.
Photographs of a large meeting in the 1950s.
9 25 Factory Machinery.
Photographs of machinery from different eras and employees at work.
9 26 Factory Machinery - Kraus Piler - July 1975.
Two contact sheets of construction, showing a crane.
9 27 Factory Machinery - Pilers (identified on negatives under same file name).
Photographs of factory, men showing and testing machinery, and two photographs of secretaries.
9 28 Farms - Rein, Bill - Nematode treatment - September 1974.
A large field with mature beets and men standing in the field.
9 29 Great Western Expo - 1972.
Six contact sheets showing people at the expo, children, parents, and machinery.
9 30 Great Western Railway.
Photographs of trains coming down the tracks.
9 31 Great Western Railway - Background material, etc..
Time tables, pictures, blueprints, and history; some train photographs.
9 32 Great Western Railway - Cars, cabooses, etc..
Mostly interior photographs of the train cars, bench seats, spittoons; some exterior views.
9 33 Great Western Railway - Contact sheets - 1960-61.
Over 50 contact sheets of different photographs pertaining to the railroad.
9 34 Great Western Railway - Diesel locomotives.
Trains in different towns, shown from various views.
9 35 Great Western Railway - Dinky locomotives.
Photographs of exteriors of older models of trains.
10 1-2 Great Western Railway - no. 90 (good views).
Photographs of trains coming down the tracks, steam billowing and great backgrounds; engines also pictured.
10 3-4 Great Western Railway - no. 90 (various views).
Exterior photographs of trains, mostly with great scenery in back.
10 5 Great Western Railway - Personnel and general.
Photographs of functions, speeches, engineers, and trains.
10 6 Great Western Railway - Repair shop, etc..
Good quality photographs of men repairing trains.
10 7 Great Western Railway - Rip track and yard.
Different views of the train yard.
10 8 Great Western Railway - Section work.
Men building tracks and driving stakes using sledgehammers.
10 9 Great Western Railway - Steam locomotive.
Photographs of the steam locomotives on the tracks, some with mountains in the background and men posing in front of the trains.
10 10 Great Western Sugar Company Exhibit.
Four photographs of the GW exhibit, display booths and information centers.
10 11 Grower Service Center.
Photographs of test tubes, machinery and men and women testing soil.
10 12 Irrigation.
Beautiful photographs of western landscape, dams, crops, and irrigation methods.
10 13 Irrigation - A40-A42 (Identified on negatives under same file folder name).
Photographs of irrigation landscape, pipes, and water.
10 14 Irrigation - Sprinklers (Identified on negatives under same file folder name).
Two photographs of new irrigation techniques.
10 15 Japanese Agreement Dinner - August 11, 1972.
Candid dinner photographs, with men and women in formal attire.
10 16 Korean State Dept. Visit - July 13, 1972.
Photographs of a meeting and people giving speeches, with contact sheets.
10 17 Labor Housing.
Three photographs of houses, one of which is a trailer.
10 18 Labor Housing - Cyanotypes.
Two cyanotypes of labor houses with residents in front.
10 19 Livestock.
Photographs of livestock, mainly cattle, sheep, and horses.
10 20 Melibiase Agreement (signing) - GW Board Room - 1972.
Snapshots of meetings, speeches and people signing agreements.
10 21-25 People (Identified).
Portraits and candid photographs.
10 26 People (Identified) - Ag staff groups.
Group photographs, one on a reservation with Native Americans in ceremonial dress.
10 27 People (Identified) - Directors of the Grower-GW Joint Research Committee, Inc..
One group photograph.
10 28 People (Identified) - Phoenix Trip Winners.
Photographs of people boarding a plane and families at their homes.
10 29 People (Identified) - Portraits - Other executives.
Two portraits of Claude and Norman Pettit.
10 30-38 People (Unidentified).
Portraits, group photographs, employee functions, awards and Native Americans.
11 1 People (Unidentified) - Ag Convention - September 1974.
Photographs of a large group of convention participants in a ballroom.
11 2 People (Unidentified) - Ag staff.
Photographs of farms and people working.
11 3 People (Unidentified) - Agricultural employees - Dump, repairmen, Athey Shop, etc..
Photographs of farms and men with beets, and a group portrait.
11 4 People (Unidentified) - Bio-surf, car pool.
Photographs of a meeting and the exterior of a trailer.
11 5 People (Unidentified) - EJM x-A-6 (53).
Two portraits of an elderly man.
11 6 People (Unidentified) - Exec. Comm. receiving safety shoes, presentation of TV from GW expo Contest, Rubber Boots - 1972.
Two contact sheets of men standing together in rubber boots.
11 7 People (Unidentified) - Experiment Station employees - Individuals and groups.
Three employees pictured.
11 8 People (Unidentified) - Factory employees - Agriculture - Various groups and individuals.
Photographs of employees at desks and a news crew holding beets, and group photographs.
11 9 People (Unidentified) - Factory employees - Groups retired and deceased.
Portraits and candid photographs, mostly of elderly people.
11 10 People (Unidentified) - Factory employees - Operating - Various groups and individuals.
Photographs of employees in the factory and in a board room; men, women, and children.
11 11 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Assistant Master Mechanics.
Men at work in soiled work clothes.
11 12 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Assistant supervisors.
Photographs of men in hard hats at factories.
11 13 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Cashiers and assistant cashiers.
Photographs of men at work.
11 14 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Fieldmen and assistant fieldmen.
Portraits of workers, most with "crew cut" hairstyles.
11 15 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Managers and assistant managers.
Portraits of employees.
11 16 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Master mechanics.
Photographs of mechanics; some in formal attire, others in work clothes.
11 17 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Portraits - Retired and deceased.
Portraits and candid photographs from the 1950s.
11 18 People (Unidentified) - Factory supervisors - Superintendents.
Portraits of superintendents.
11 19 People (Unidentified) - Foreign visitors.
Photographs of dinners, speeches, women in gowns, Asians, Germans, Italians, and French.
11 20 People (Unidentified) - High Ten.
Group photographs of successful growers, and news briefs on their production tonnage.
11 21 People (Unidentified) - Million bag crews (also supervisors, etc.).
Group photographs of people around a silk bag of sugar.
11 22 People (Unidentified) - Miscellaneous groups.
Photographs of functions, displays, dinners, children and awards.
11 23 People (Unidentified) - Pennant Banquets.
Photographs of groups in formal attire, dancing and singing.
11 24 People (Unidentified) - Pennant - Winning Crews.
Large groups pictured, with some individual photographs.
11 25 People (Unidentified) - Research Joint.
Researchers in fields, meetings and at dinners.
11 26 People (Unidentified) - Safety Award Banquet.
Photographs of award banquet from the 1950s.
11 27 People (Unidentified) - Safety Award Crews.
Large groups pictured, some individual photographs.
12 1 People (Unidentified) - Suggestion Award Winners.
Photographs of men and women posing with checks in front of suggestion boxes.
12 2 People (Unidentified) - Employees service pin presentation.
Employees receiving awards, men and women.
12 3-5 People (Unidentified).
Photographs of people in beet fields, on machinery, in groups and in recreational activities.
12 6 People - Beet Labor Musicians.
One photograph of five musicians performing outside a train.
12 7 People - Bever, Bob - Retirement - July 6, 1983.
Photographs of Bever's party at the Sirloin Stockade, his speech and the watch he received.
12 8 People - Butler and K. Peterson.
One contact sheet with three photographs of Butler and Peterson.
12 9 People - Eisenhower, Dwight.
Three photographs of Eisenhower touring a beet field, holding a beet, and talking with Frank Kemp.
12 10 People - Executives - Contact sheets - Photographic request record.
Contact sheets of the portraits of executives.
12 11 People - Fritzler, Carl - May 25, 1960.
Fritzler in his field, with a carbon copy of an information sheet.
12 12 People - Growers, landowners.
Photographs of landowners, FFA students and research teams.
12 13 People - High Ten -1974.
Group and individual photographs of top growers.
12 14 People - High Ten - 1979.
Three group photographs of top growers with information on their rank included.
12 15 People - Hungerford, E.H..
Two portraits of Hungerford.
12 16 People - Hunt Brothers.
Brothers pictured in an office in suits.
12 17 People - Jens Jensen Going Away Party.
One contact sheet of the party.
12 18 People - Kemp and Dirkzwager - July 3, 1961.
Photographs of the two in front of a beet mound, one is reading a letter.
12 19 People - Mason, J. R..
Poor quality photographs of Mason.
12 20 People - Morey, John.
One portrait.
12 21 People - Petitt Retirement - May 1975.
One contact sheet.
12 22 People - Powell, Jack.
Portraits of Powell that become more distinct when tilted in the light.
12 23 People - Retirement personnel.
One 8x10 photograph of an unidentified man and woman.
12 24 People - Sakata, Robert - Vice President, Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing Assoc.
One 5x7 photograph of men in a field with microphones, with a caption sheet.
12 25 People - Simmons, Edmond.
One 8x10 portrait of Simmons in 1933.
12 26 People - Smith, P.B. - Spring 1953.
Several portraits of Smith, plus a photograph of Smith and Frank Kemp shaking hands.
12 27 People - Sullivan, Ed - June 4, 1963.
One photograph of Ed Sullivan in his field.
12 28 People - Tour - Russians - September 30, 1960.
Three contact sheets of Russian tour, with an itinerary.
12 29 People - Wilkie, Wendall.
Photographs of men and women in fields with livestock.
12 30 Upbeet.
Photographs of groups of people, agricultural machinery and fields.
12 31 Upbeet - Plowing winter tilling.
Photographs of plowing machinery, men and beautiful landscapes.
12 32 Upbeet - West fumigation.
Identified growers, in their respective fields.
12 33 Unknown.
Photographs of battle ships, the Rocky Mountains, aerial views.
12 34 Warren Quarry - Big Horn Limestone Co. - January 1976.
One contact sheet of a quarry and few men.
Subseries C: Company codes.
12 35 A48-673 - Norm Davies. 1/75.
12 36 B20-193 - B20-195 - Reserve Refinery, Panama cargo on mini-liner, 3/4/76.
12 37 B20-196 - B20-198 - Oak Alley Plantation.
12 38 B20-534 - B20-969 - GWSC General Office - Personnel.
12 39 B21-071 - B21-727 - GWSC - Personnel -1976.
12 40 B21-557 - B21-558 - Geo. Gibson Retirement, Keine Zisch and Frank Kemp, 4/76.
12 41 B22-132 - GWSC - Personnel.
12 42 B25-213 - Argabrite Retirement.
12 43 B25-451 - Dow Donations - 1975.
12 44 B26-137 - Jim Station - 75.
12 45 B26-453 - Crust (S. Fox) - 1975.
12 46 B26-729.
12 47 B26-784 - Irrigation / Piler work, 6/75.
12 48 B26-868 - Banker.
12 49 B27-026 - B27-027 - Weed Tour, L and F, 6/75.
12 50 B27-224 - Field Scenes, Spring '75.
12 51 B27-392 - Ken Hopp - Bankers.
12 52 B27-993 - Bowseuz.
12 53 B28-238 - B28-239 - Seed - Arizona.
12 54 B28-911 - Kemp - Piler Delivery, Mildew Check, 8/75.
12 55 B30-593 - Schreiner Station, Montana, 10/75.
12 56 B30-594 - Lovell Dinkey - Wyo. - Heart Mountain.
12 57 B30-595 - Dow - GW Rifle Presentation to Boy Scouts of Laramie Peak.
12 58 B30-596 - New Custer Station - Montana.
12 59 B32-218 - Ostermuller Retirement, 12/75.
12 60 B32-228 - GWSC - 4H-FFA - Sugar Beet Projects Competition - 1975.
12 61 B32-268 -Great Western Sugar 5th Annual 4-H-FFA Achievement Program - 1975.
12 62 B33-017 - Bob Poitz - Yuma Grower, 1/76.
12 63 B33-976.
12 64 Black and white prints 76.
5x7 photographs of meetings, speeches and research activities.
12 65 Black and white contact sheets 77 #1-50.
Five contact sheets of functions, speeches, awards and portraits.
12 66 BW - 21.
One 8x10 photograph of sugar bags piled high in a warehouse. 1921.
12 67 BW - 30.
Two photographs of sugar loaded into a train and a factory.
12 68 BW - 34.
Two photographs of sugar displays.
12 69 BW - 39.
Photographs of sugar bags piled in factories, with men moving the bags.
12 70 BW - 40.
Two photographs, one of bags of sugar, the other of sugar beet plants.
12 71 BW - 45.
One 3x5 photograph of sugar bags piled in front of a warehouse.
12 72 BW - 46.
Small snapshots of a sugar truck in downtown Denver.
12 73 BW - 47.
Photograph of a table with a block of soil and phosphate chemicals.
12 74 BW - 49.
Photographs of sugar beet advertising, displays and parade floats.
12 75 BW - 50.
One photograph of the old Fort Collins factory.
12 76 BW - 56.
Small photographs of traffic, buildings and factories.
12 77 BW - 59.
Photographs of beet unloading processes in the 1950s.
12 78-79 BW - 62.
Scenic photographs of landscapes, aerial views of Denver and barns.
12 80 BW - 64.
One 8x10 photograph of a sugar processing plant in 1964.
12 81 BW - 66.
Photographs of landscapes, buildings and machinery.
12 82 BW - 67.
Photographs of crew in hardhats and a factory.
12 83 BW - 67 - 4 - Flasco, Tony.
Several portraits of Flasco.
12 84 BW - 68.
Contact sheets of people and events.
12 85 BW - 69.
Contact sheets of Christmas trees, people and dinners.
12 86-87 BW - 77.
Photographs of men at work and group photographs of high ten producers.
12 88 BW - 78.
One portrait of an unidentified man.
12 89-90 BWCS - 64 - 12 through 64 - 83.
Contact sheets.
13 1 BWCS - 1965.
Contact sheets from 1965.
13 2-4 BWCS - 67.
Contact sheets from 1967.
13 5 BWCS - 70.
Contact sheets of groups and meetings.
13 6 BWCS - 1973.
Contact sheets.
13 6-9 BWCS - 1974.
Contact sheets.
13 10-11 BW-X-393 through BW-X-509.
Photographs of landscapes and men with sugar.
13 12-13 BW-X-510 through BW-X-572.
Photographs of farm machinery, fields and mountain views.
13 14-16 BW-X-577 through BW-X-720.
Advertising and public relations photographs of men, women and a baby posing with sugar.
13 17 Contact proofs -1960 (unknown).
13 18 Contact proofs - 1961 (unknown).
13 19 Contact proofs - 1962 (unknown).
13 20 Contact proofs - 1963 (unknown).
13 21 Contact proofs - 1966 (unknown).
14 1 Contact sheets #267.
14 2 CT 75.
One color negative of a large house.
14 3 GWSC Personnel - Contact sheets.
14 4 GWSC Prints.
Photographs of factories, buildings and beet dumps.
14 5 Harvester Var. Test - 10/81.
Color photographs of testing equipment in the beet fields.
39-42 Oversized prints of factories, fields and people. 1909, 1911, 1926, 1976 and undated.

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Series II: Negatives

Box Folder
15-19 Safety negatives in archival sleeves in the following sizes: 35mm, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches, 4x5 inches and 8x10 inches. 1971-1976 and undated.
20 Glass plate negatives. undated.

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Series III: Photographic slides

Box Folder
21-23 Color slides. Subjects include sugar beet research, fertilizers, machinery, people, factories, beet dumps and insects. 1947-1984 and undated.

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Series IV: Motion picture films

Box Folder
24-30 Films (16mm), including raw footage and finished promotional films. Footage includes scenes of fields, agricultural equipment in action, seed germination in laboratories, planting, harvesting, beet dumps and factory operations. 1946-1947, 1965, 1970 and undated.
38 Oversized promotional films, including "The GW Story," "The GW Tare Movie" and "Progress in Chemical Weed Control".

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Series V: Audio and videotapes

Box Folder
31 Audio cassette and reel-to-reel tapes and obsolete format videotapes. Titles of the audio cassettes include "The Mono Hy Story," "The Last American Supper" and "Sakata-Nelson Interview and GW Jingle". 1972-1982 and undated.

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Series VI: Printing plates

Box Folder
32 Small photographic printing plates used in company publications. Many feature photographic images of individuals from Eaton, Colorado. 1976 and undated.

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Series VII: Textual records

Box Folder
33-37 Textual materials including Great Western publications, bulletins, biographical data and an indexing system for photographic prints and slides. 1916-1978 and undated.

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