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General Records of Consolidated Badger Cooperative

Corporate Records of Companies Merged with Consolidated Badger Cooperative

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Container	Title
Green Bay Mss 104	Series: General Records of Consolidated Badger Cooperative
Box 1 Folder 1-2	50th Anniversary files, 1981
	Historical materials
Box 1 Folder 3	“Early Thoughts on Improvements”: background, 1928-1931
Box 1 Folder 4-5	News clippings
Box 1 Folder 6	Strikes: clippings and papers, 1947, 1949
Box 1 Folder 7	George F. Baumeister, Joe Duffek, and Ed Engebretson oral history transcripts
Box 1 Folder 8	Baumeister, George F.: award nomination, press releases, speech
Box 1 Folder 9-11	General files
Box 1 Folder 12-15	Annual reports, 1931-1983
Box 1 Folder 16	Miscellaneous annual reports
Box 1 Folder 17	Lists of directors and officers
	Annual financial reports
Box 1 Folder 18-22	1931-1949
Box 2 Folder 1-4	1950-1961
	Lawsuits and legal papers
Box 2 Folder 5	CBC v. King and CBC v. Berken, 1966-1967
Box 2 Folder 6	Huser v. CBC, 1956-1959
Box 2 Folder 7	Link v. CBC, 1955-1957
Box 2 Folder 8	NFO Meeting; Owen Dairies Plant Closing; Sanna Dairies Inc. Real Estate Sales
Box 2 Folder 9	State of Wisconsin, Outagamie County v. CBC, 1962-1963
	Minutes
Green Bay Micro 44 / Micro 999	Annual and board meetings
Reel 1	Articles of association and by-laws, 1929
Reel 1	1930-1948
Reel 2	1949-1982
Green Bay Mss 104	Annual meetings
Box 2 Folder 10-11	1937-1938
Box 2 Folder 13-19	1939-1945
Box 3 Folder 1-16	1946-1962
Box 2 Folder 12	Special meeting, 1938
	District meetings
Box 3 Folder 17-18	1968-1969
Box 4 Folder 1-3	1970-1972
	Newsletters
Box 4 Folder 4	Badger Personalities (formerly Badger Personnel-ities), 1950-1952
Box 4 Folder 5	Badger Briefs, 1966-1967
	Production records
Box 4 Folder 6	Milk production statistics, 1931-1980
	Production summaries
Box 4 Folder 7-16	1943, 1945-1977
Box 5 Folder 1-2	1978-1983
	Union and Labor records
	Labor contracts
Box 5 Folder 3	1944-1951 Note: With legal documents and strike records.
Box 5 Folder 4-16	1954-1972
Box 6 Folder 1-2	1971-1973
	Negotiations files
Box 6 Folder 3-6	Local Union #328, Escanaba, Michigan, 1958-1967
Box 6 Folder 7-9	Fluid Milk Division, 1961-1963
Box 6 Folder 10	General files
Box 6 Folder 11	Hancock Dairy, Hancock, Michigan, 1953-1962
Box 6 Folder 12-13	Manufacturing Division, 1960-1963
Box 6 Folder 14	Seymour Plant, 1958-1967
Box 6 Folder 15	Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, Appleton
Box 6 Folder 16	West DePere and Sturgeon Bay, Iola, Marshfield, Shawano
Box 6 Folder 17	Real estate transaction records
	Series: Corporate Records of Companies Merged with Consolidated Badger Cooperative	⇧
Box 7 Folder 1	Asselin Creamery Company, Norway, Michigan
Box 7 Folder 2	Bancroft Dairy, Marquette, Michigan
Box 7 Folder 3	Bridgeman-Russell Company, Hancock, Michigan
	Central Dairy Sales Cooperative
Box 7 Folder 4-5	Audits, 1951-1956
Box 7 Folder 6-8	Audit work sheets, 1950-1957
Box 7 Folder 9	Gehl Dairy Farms
Box 7 Folder 10	Hancock Dairy Company
Box 7 Folder 11	Hergert Dairy, Oshkosh
Box 7 Folder 12-13	Melody Dairy Inc., Appleton
	Outagamie Milk and Produce Company
Box 7 Folder 14	Audit report, 1938
Box 7 Folder 15	Corporation record book
	Portage Cooperative Creamery and Westfield Cooperative Dairy, Westfield
Box 7 Folder 16-17	Audits, blueprints, and other papers
Box 7 Folder 18	Rice Lake Creamery Company
	Shawano Creamery Company
Box 7 Folder 19	Articles of association and amendments
Box 7 Folder 20	Corporation record book
	Series: Visual Materials	⇧
PH 5069	Photographs, 1940s-1970s Note: Includes photographs of milk, cheese, and other dairy production, and meetings of Cooperative members.
	Films
AE 459	It's a Morning Glory Day, 1986 Physical Description: 1 film reel: sound, color; 16 mm Note: The movie is composed from still-shot photos with a narrator and music in the background. The movie looks at the past, present, and future of Morning Glory Farms.
AE 460	1st Strike at Badger, circa 1947 Physical Description: 1 film reel (77 feet): silent, color and black and white; 16 mm Note: This film shows the Shawano factory and a strike taking place outside the building. There are images of men picketing with signs saying things like “We can't pay our store bills” and “Dairy unfair to AFL Truck Drivers Local 561.”
AE 461	[Butter Factory; Milk Can Production], circa 1930s Physical Description: 1 film reel (198 feet): silent, black and white; 16 mm Note: The film features a segment on butter production. It takes the viewer through a step-by-step process. It shows a machine called the “Detroit Roto Stoker.” Then the film moves on to infants on a sled. The film closes with advertising footage with a baby sitting in a high chair holding a can of Badger Consolidated Evaporated Milk.
CC 881	Self Help Program, 1954 Physical Description: 1 film reel (585 feet): optical sound, black and white; 16 mm Note: A panel discussion about the “Self Help Program,” a program designed to help the dairy farmer be more self-reliant and less reliant on federal subsidies. Five prominent men in the dairy farming industry give presentations: Paul Affeldt, president of the Pure Milk Association; Ted Walton, Master State Grange; Jack Kyle – Wisconsin Association of Co-operatives; William C. Eckles – Pure Milk Products; and Harry Wilson, Badger Breeders.
CC 882	The Agricultural Marketing Act, circa 1949-1953 Physical Description: 1 film reel: optical sound, black and white; 16 mm Note: This film is a panel discussion between Governor Gaylord Nelson, William C. Eckles, and Robert G. Lewis. William C. Eckles was the moderator though it appears to be a scripted discussion. The discussion centered around legislation pending in the fall special session that year regarding agriculture including bills 810A and 6575.
AC 931	The Morning Glory Story, circa 1950s Physical Description: 1 film reel (710 feet): optical sound, color; 16 mm Note: This film is a 1950s marketing scenario involving a man who has recently started working at Morning Glory Farms. He describes the way Morning Glory operates on a day-to-day basis to his wife. The dialogue and images emphasize the modern-ness of the Morning Glory facilities.
AC 308-AC 309	[Consolidated Badger Cooperative early years], circa 1930s Physical Description: 2 film reels: silent, black and white; 16 mm Note: Includes shots of Consolidated Badger Co-op activities during the early years of operation. Includes footage of a farmer with cattle, milk pick-up and delivery, processing, testing, and storage of milk.
AC 298	[Ed Engebretsen interview], circa 1978 Physical Description: 1 film reel (190 feet): sound, color; 16 mm Note: An interview with Ed Engebretsen, president of Consolidated Badger Cooperative, on the occasion of his retirement after 37 years.
CA 932	All Hands Secure Physical Description: 1 film reel (562 feet): sound, color; 16 mm Note: Produced for the Dairy Operating Cooperative. Story of the Fred and Mary Collins family and how they got started in a farming cooperative. The cooperative is used to insure guaranteed markets, realistic profits, a secured income, financial security, and a future in farming for all farmers.
DD 512	The Economics of Democracy Physical Description: 1 film reel (990 feet): sound, black and white; 16 mm Note: Produced for American Institute of Cooperation with the Nebraska Cooperative Council. A lecture on how businesses work in a free market society. Emphasizes the merits of unregulated competition and argues that government protection of certain industries ultimately hurts the consumer.
VBA 543	The Dairy Challenge and You, 1977 Physical Description: 1 videotape (U-Matic): sound, color; 3/4-inch Note: Produced by WBAY-TV. Fox Valley, Wisconsin, consumers call in to a four-member panel to ask questions about dairying.