Title: Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association and Appleton Downtown Retail Association Commerce Records
Inclusive Dates: 1874-1876
Inclusive Dates: 1920-1967

Creators:

• Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association (Wis.)
• Appleton Downtown Retail Association (Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 135

Quantity: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)

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)

Abstract:

Records, 1874-1876, 1920-1967, of the Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association, Appleton, Wisconsin, and records, 1959-1966, of the Appleton Downtown Retail Association, an outgrowth of the Chamber. Included are minutes, financial reports, general reports, correspondence, and clippings.

Language: English

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On August 29, 1874 businessmen of Appleton met to organize an Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association. At that meeting a constitution was drafted and officers were elected: E. G. Goff, temporary president, and J. E. Harriman, temporary secretary. The Association has been in continuous existence since that date. The Appleton Downtown Retail Association was an outgrowth of the Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association, and its records were an integral part of those of the parent organization until April 1959.

The collection consists of the records of both the Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association and the Appleton Downtown Retail Association. Each of these organizations has compiled its minutes and financial and other records into Yearbooks for fiscal years running from April through March. The last three Yearbooks of the Appleton Downtown Retail Association deviate from this precedent somewhat as the end of their fiscal year was changed in 1962 to September, and then to August the following year. Each volume (Yearbook) usually contains the minutes of board of directors meetings, committee meetings and the general meetings for one year; as well as monthly and annual financial reports, general reports, correspondence, and clippings.

The forty-seven volumes of Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association Yearbooks cover the years 1920 through 1967, lacking one year, April 1965 through March 1966. Included is one Yearbook dated considerably earlier than the others, containing the earliest records of the organization from August 1874 through March 1876. The April 1964-March 1965 Yearbook contains only board of directors minutes, and the April 1966-March 1967 volume has committee reports only.

The Appleton Downtown Retail Association Yearbooks are in six volumes for the years April 1959 through August 1966. There are no records for the 1964-1965 year. Before 1959 records of the Appleton Downtown Retail Association were bound with the Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association records.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Appleton Chamber of Commerce Association via Donald Stone, June 19, 1975.

Processing Information

Processed by J. Dunnum and Joanne Hohler, November 21, 1975.

	Series: Appleton Chamber Of Commerce Association Yearbooks
Box   1 Folder   1	1874 August-1876 March
Box   1 Folder   2-5	1920 April-1924 March
Box   2 Folder   6-10	1924 April-1929 March
Box   3 Folder   11-13	1929 April-1932 March
Box   4 Folder   14-16	1932 April-1935 March
Box   5 Folder   17-20	1935 April-1939 March
Box   6 Folder   21-24	1939 April-1943 March
Box   7 Folder   25-27	1943 April-1946 March
Box   8 Folder   28-30	1946 April-1949 March
Box   9 Folder   31-33	1949 April-1952 March
Box   10 Folder   34-35	1952 April-1954 March
Box   11 Folder   36-37	1954 April-1956 March
Box   12 Folder   38-39	1956 April-1958 March
Box   13 Folder   40-41	1958 April-1960 March
Box   14 Folder   42-43	1960 April-1962 March
Box   15 Folder   44-45	1962 April-1964 March
Box   16 Folder   46	1964 April-1965 March
Box   16 Folder   47	1966 April-1967 March
	Series: Appleton Downtown Retail Association Yearbooks	⇧
Box   16 Folder   48-49	1959 April-1961 March
Box   17 Folder   50-52	1961 April-1964 August
Box   17 Folder   53	1965 September-1966 August