American Crystal Sugar Company
The brand-new American Crystal Sugar factory in Moorhead, 1948. From the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association records, 1919–1994, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead. Used with the permission of Northwest Minnesota Historical Center.
Bibliography
American Crystal Sugar Company. “Deep Roots: Our Timeline.”
https://www.crystalsugar.com/our-company/history
——— . “Our Agricultural Cooperative Corporation.”
https://www.crystalsugar.com/our-company/cooperative-profile
American Crystal Sugar Company records, 1883–1983
Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Description: Corporate records of the American Crystal Sugar Company; of its direct predecessor, the American Beet Sugar Company; and of other predecessors, subsidiaries, and affiliates. They are supplemented by historical data and printed materials collected by the company or compiled by sugar industry historian Dan Gutleben.
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00341.xml
Dezendorf, Alfred. “Henry T. Oxnard at Home.” San Francisco Sunday Call 96, no. 40 (July 10, 1904): 5.
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040710.2.185.3
Norris, Jim. North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
S4868
Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association records, 1919–1994
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead
Description: A large collection of the records of one of the Valley’s most successful agricultural cooperatives, detailing the history of sugar beet agriculture in the northern Valley. Includes minute books, statistical records, correspondence, transcribed interviews with growers and officials of American Crystal Sugar Company, films, and photographs.
https://www.mnstate.edu/library/university-archives/northwest-mn/collections/s4868
Shoptaugh, Terry L. Roots of Success: History of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers. Fargo, ND: Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, 1997.
Strand, Philip. A Heritage of Growth: American Crystal Sugar Company and the First Hundred Harvests. St. Paul: Hakala Communications, Inc., 1998.
Chronology
1890
1899
1924
1926
1934
mid-1930s
1948
1954
1962
1971
1972
1973
1974
1977
1982
1990
1993
Bibliography
American Crystal Sugar Company. “Deep Roots: Our Timeline.”
https://www.crystalsugar.com/our-company/history
——— . “Our Agricultural Cooperative Corporation.”
https://www.crystalsugar.com/our-company/cooperative-profile
American Crystal Sugar Company records, 1883–1983
Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Description: Corporate records of the American Crystal Sugar Company; of its direct predecessor, the American Beet Sugar Company; and of other predecessors, subsidiaries, and affiliates. They are supplemented by historical data and printed materials collected by the company or compiled by sugar industry historian Dan Gutleben.
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00341.xml
Dezendorf, Alfred. “Henry T. Oxnard at Home.” San Francisco Sunday Call 96, no. 40 (July 10, 1904): 5.
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040710.2.185.3
Norris, Jim. North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
S4868
Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association records, 1919–1994
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead
Description: A large collection of the records of one of the Valley’s most successful agricultural cooperatives, detailing the history of sugar beet agriculture in the northern Valley. Includes minute books, statistical records, correspondence, transcribed interviews with growers and officials of American Crystal Sugar Company, films, and photographs.
https://www.mnstate.edu/library/university-archives/northwest-mn/collections/s4868
Shoptaugh, Terry L. Roots of Success: History of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers. Fargo, ND: Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, 1997.
Strand, Philip. A Heritage of Growth: American Crystal Sugar Company and the First Hundred Harvests. St. Paul: Hakala Communications, Inc., 1998.