Mifflin Street Community Cooperative Records, 1968-2006
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Summary Information

Title: Mifflin Street Community Cooperative Records
Inclusive Dates: 1968-2006

Creator:
  • Mifflin Street Community Cooperative
Call Number: M2007-067

Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet (5 records center cartons and 3 archives boxes), 3.0 cubic feet of photographs, drawings, and ephemera (4 flat boxes and 1 archives box), and 4 rolled drawings

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Records of the Mifflin Street Community Cooperative, a cooperative grocery store which was organized in 1969 and ceased operation in 2006. The records include a detailed history of the early years of the co-op and documentation from other area food cooperatives. Also included are photographs, drawings, and ephemera documenting individuals involved with the store, advertising, the building, its mural, remodel (1993), historical displays, and neighborhood events such as the Mifflin Street Block Party, which the co-op sponsored from 1968-1991, as well as a framed National Liberation Front (NLF) flag presented to the co-op from the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris.

Note:

Forms part of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection.



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2007067
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