The collection includes minutes and financial and other corporate records of the Medford Cooperative Creamery Co., but very little correspondence, salary and personnel records, or production records.
Predominant in the collection are annual reports to the Secretary of State, 1937, 1939-1944, 1946-1963, and annual reports of financial condition. These, together with the articles and certificate of incorporation, by-laws, a lengthy run of minutes, 1917-1962, and a substantial file of tax returns, work sheets, exhibits, correspondence concerning taxes, and receipts, comprise the most informative portion of the collection. Other records include a file of contracts and purchase records for a new building and equipment, and such financial records as bank notes and loan records, and dividend reports, Financial volumes include a general ledger, 1959-1962; cream account book 1915-1916; and daybooks or journals, 1918-1962; which record both daily and semi-monthly summaries of amounts paid to individual members. There are also small files pertaining to land, factory, and equipment purchases, including legal documents, blueprints, and other records. Other legal records consist of deeds, including the deeds of the original creamery properties, general legal records and routine correspondence with attorneys, and papers from a workman's compensation lawsuit. The only production records of any sort are a few scattered milk test records.
