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South Dakota Farmers Union Records SDSU Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M South Dakota State University Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange Manuscript Archive Finding Aids 3-22-2018 South Dakota Farmers Union Records SDSU Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library Follow this and additional works at: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/finding_aids-manuscript Recommended Citation SDSU Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, "South Dakota Farmers Union Records" (2018). Manuscript Archive. 11. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/finding_aids-manuscript/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Finding Aids at Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Manuscript Archive by an authorized administrator of Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. South Dakota Farmers Union Records Collection Summary Identifier: MA 12 Title: South Dakota Farmers Union Records Creator: South Dakota Farmers Union Dates: 1914-2009 Extent: 58.63 linear feet (61 boxes) audiocassettes, open reel tapes, wire recordings, films, photographs Language: English Repository: South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections Hilton M. Briggs Library (SBL) Room 241, Box 2115 1300 North Campus Drive Brookings, SD 57007 Phone: 605-688-5094 Email: [email protected] Access Note: This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. This material does not circulate and may be used in-house only. Preferred Citation: Name of item, MA 12, box #, folder #, South Dakota Farmers Union Records, South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota. Abstract South Dakota Farmers Union is a non-profit advocacy organization of small farmers, ranchers, and rural communities across the state. The Farmers Union was formed in 1917 and promotes education, cooperation, and legislation and local state, and national levels. The records are comprised of correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, oral history interviews, audio-visual materials, and the records of local unions. Historical Note Newspaperman Isaac Newton Gresham founded the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union at Point, Texas in 1902. The Union was organized to protect and promote the interests of family farmers. The Union became a national organization in 1905. The Farmers Union came to South Dakota about 1914. Former members of the Nebraska Farmers Union who moved to South Dakota to farm introduced the organization. Farmer’s Union officials did much of the early work in organizing from Nebraska. The Farmers Union of South Dakota was organized into a state unit at Mitchell on March 16, 1917. This was the first state convention to be held in South Dakota. There were fourteen counties represented at the convention by 268 delegates. By this time, there were 134 locals in South Dakota. The educational program of the South Dakota Farmers Union has been a vital part of the state organization. The Union pioneered many activities in education that other state units adopted. One of the important functions of the early Union was the collective purchasing of supplies such as flour, coal, twine, etc. Arrangement This collection is arranged into series: • Audio-Visual • Collected material • Cooperative Legacy Project • General • Local Unions • Photographs • Publications Items are arranged alphabetically within each series. Contents Note The records are comprised of correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, oral history interviews, audio-visual materials, and the records of local unions. AUDIO-VISUAL. The Audio-visual material is composed of 13 audiocassettes, 156 open reel tapes, 6 wire recordings, and 34 16mm motion picture films. The audio recordings span form 1948 to 1992 and include both state and national conventions, speeches, radio programs, and advertisements. There are also recordings promoting legislation, endorsing politicians in South Dakota and feature speeches by national figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, George McGovern, and Hubert Humphrey. The films depict state camp activities, tours, picnics, and parades. The Archives received a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources in 2018. This project digitized the audio-visual material of the South Dakota Farmers Union. Many of the recordings were in a poor state or in an unknown condition due to the lack of available original information about the items and the proper equipment to play the materials without damage. The Archives partnered with George Blood L.P. to digitize the materials in high quality and sustainable formats. COLLECTED MATERIAL. The Collected material is composed mainly of National Farmers Union publications as well as publications from various state Farmers Unions organizations. COOPERATIVE LEGACY PROJECT. The Cooperative Legacy Project was organized by Chuck Groth, South Dakota Farmers Union communications director from 1972-2008, spearheaded what came to be known as the Cooperative Legacy Project in which he conducted interviews with dozens of Farmers Union members, cooperative managers, farm organization leaders and grassroots activists. He compiled over 110 hours of audio and detailed the history of Farmers Union and the cooperative movement in South Dakota. The interviews are born digital audio recordings (MP3 and WAVE format files) and are accompanied by documents and photographs scanned by Groth during the interviews (TIFF and JPEG files). The material in folders consists of signed releases and rough transcriptions. GENERAL. The General series is composed of correspondence, constitutions and by-laws, clippings, speeches, minutes, advertising material, and scrapbooks. The minutes are from the 11th Annual Convention in 1926 to the 31st Annual Convention in 1946. Financial statements can be found in nearly all of programs. Also included is material dealing with a 1972 Supreme Court case that dealt with funding public schools with property tax funds. This material consists of clippings, correspondence, exhibit evidence, interrogatories, and material dealing with other states. LOCAL UNIONS. The Local Unions series is composed of charter records for local unions throughout the state of South Dakota with some material pertaining to more specific local unions. Material consists of attendance records, minutes, and correspondence with some accompanied by photographs. PHOTOGRAPHS. The Photographs are composed of over 33,000 photographs and negatives dealing with the youth program, conventions, picnics, tours, dedications, South Dakota Union Farmer. PUBLICATIONS. The Publications consist of programs, action programs, handbooks, and brochures from South Dakota Farmers Union. The programs are from conventions dating from 1938 to 1983. These include an agenda for the conventions and advertising. The action programs include program and policy statements of the South Dakota Farmers Union as adopted by delegates at annual conventions. These action programs date from 1954-1988. The handbooks include proceedings of the annual conventions and bylaws of the Union. Resources Emil Loriks: builder of a new economic order Williams Elizabeth E. Sioux Falls, S.D., Center for Western Studies, 1987. Cal number: SD Collection: F651.L67 W54 1987 The family farmers’ advocate: South Dakota Farmers Union, 1914-2000 Oyos, Lynwood Sioux Falls, S.D.: Center for Western Studies, 2000, c1999 Call number: SD Collection: HD6515.A292 S65 2000 The inventional components of Emil Loriks' agrarian farmer’s union rhetoric, 1934-1938 Williams, Elizabeth E. Thesis (M.A.)—Speech Dept., South Dakota State University, 1983. Call number: Archives: LB2385.W67 1983 South Dakota union farmer Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America. South Dakota Division Huron, S.D.: South Dakota Farmers Union, 1917 Call number: 630.7305 So87 Online access: South Dakota Union Farmer Archives 2011-current Subject Headings • Agriculture, Cooperative • Agriculture – South Dakota – Societies, etc. • Oral history • South Dakota Farmer's Union Conditions Governing Access This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only. Researchers conducting extensive research are asked to make an advance appointment to access archival material. Please call or e-mail prior to visiting the collection and indicate as much detail as possible about a particular topic and intended use. South Dakota State University supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted as a result of their fragile condition or by contractual agreements with donors. Copyright Notice Copyright restrictions apply in different ways to different materials. Many of the documents and other historical materials in the Archives are in the public domain and may be reproduced and used in any way. There are other materials in the Archive carrying a copyright interest and must be used according to the provisions of Title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Archive issues a warning concerning copyright restrictions to every researcher who requests copies of documents. Although the copyright law is under constant redefinition in the courts, it is ultimately the responsibility of the researcher
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