Title: Valders Canning Company
Inclusive Dates: 1913-1964

Creator:

• Valders Canning Company

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 48

Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) and 28 photographs

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records of one of the largest companies in Wisconsin that packed only peas. Founded by William F. Christel and others, the company packed six brands of peas in its plants in Valders, Hilbert, and St. Nazianz. The company was liquidated in 1963. The collection contains administrative and legal records, and extensive files of financial records.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0048

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Valders Canning Company, founded September 26, 1913 by William F. Christel, Albert Schnurr, and Nic Filz, was at that time the largest company in Wisconsin that packed only peas. Six brands were packed at the company's main plant in Valders, and in factories located in Hilbert and St. Nazianz (the latter plant was sold in 1950). In addition, the company owned and operated a 400-acre farm adjacent to the village of Valders. Christel, a pioneer Wisconsin entrepreneur and inventor, was president of the company until his death in 1952, when the position was assumed by his son. The company was liquidated in 1963.

The records pertain mainly to financial and legal concerns of the company from 1913 to 1963. (William F. Christel's personal papers may be found under the call number Green Bay Mss 69.) This collection is divided into three series: Administrative Records, Legal Records, and Financial Records.

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS include a Corporation Record Book which documents the incorporation of the company, directors' and stockholders' meetings, and stock issues, 1913-1933. The LEGAL RECORDS series contains legal documents and correspondence, 1902-1963, of the company's land transactions in Wisconsin and Texas. Additional folders contain legal records and correspondence concerning the purchase of trademarks, 1942, and the company's liquidation in 1963.

The extensive FINANCIAL RECORDS of the company include annual financial statements and a “plant ledger” which consists of fiscal- and calendar-year-end inventories, assets and liabilities, receipts and disbursements, and lists of stockholders.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Charles C. Christel, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1975, and by Ruth Glasow, Pasadena, California, 1976. Accession Number: M75-417, M76-397

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd and P. Tall, September 28, 1978.

	Series: Administrative Records
Box   1 Folder   2	Corporation Record Book, 1913-1933
Box   1 Folder   2	Minutes of Board of Directors' meetings, 1945-1964
	Series: Legal Records	⇧
Box   1 Folder   3	Land transactions, 1902-1963
Box   1 Folder   4	Land transactions, Progreso Haciendas Company, Texas, 1929-1939
Box   1 Folder   5	Trademarks, 1942
Box   1 Folder   6	Miscellaneous; liquidation papers, 1924-1963
	Series: Financial Records	⇧
	Annual financial statements
Box   1 Box   7	1914-1923
Box   2 Box   1-4	1924-1936, 1938-1942, 1951-1963
Box   2 Folder   5	Plant ledger, 1956-1964
Box   3 Folder   1-2	Cash books, 1938-1954, 1940-1948, 1943-1954, 1949-1954, 1956
	Stock certificates
Box   3 Folder   3-4	1924-1943
Box   4 Folder   1	1947-1960
Box   4 Folder   2	Stock issues and sales, 1953, 1962, 1963