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Cooperative: Nurturing Unity and Prosperity In the picturesque town of Vermont, amidst rolling green hills and idyllic landscapes, a creamery stood tall in 1941

Background imageCooperative Collection: VERMONT: CREAMERY, 1941. Milk cans on a conveyor belt leaving the washing machine

VERMONT: CREAMERY, 1941. Milk cans on a conveyor belt leaving the washing machine at the United Farmers Cooperative Creamery in Sheldon Springs, Vermont. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1941

Background imageCooperative Collection: Sign on the wall at Champagne Palmer, a big cooperative co-operative, Reims, Champagne

Sign on the wall at Champagne Palmer, a big cooperative co-operative, Reims, Champagne, Marne, Ardennes, France

Background imageCooperative Collection: A strong culture creates a strong cooperative, 1918. Creator: Unknown artist

A strong culture creates a strong cooperative, 1918. Creator: Unknown artist
A strong culture creates a strong cooperative, 1918. Private Collection

Background imageCooperative Collection: Dakota Apartment House, New York, N.Y. between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Unknown

Dakota Apartment House, New York, N.Y. between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Dakota Apartment House, New York, N.Y. between 1905 and 1915

Background imageCooperative Collection: Allen Plantation operated by Natchitoches Farmstead Association, a cooperative established... 1940

Allen Plantation operated by Natchitoches Farmstead Association, a cooperative established... 1940
Allen Plantation operated by Natchitoches Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of F. S. A. Louisiana, August 1940

Background imageCooperative Collection: A corner of the dining room in the League Hall. 1908. Creator: Unknown

A corner of the dining room in the League Hall. 1908. Creator: Unknown
A corner of the dining room in the League Hall. 1908

Background imageCooperative Collection: Main office of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League; 24 Brook Street. 1908

Main office of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League; 24 Brook Street. 1908. Creator: Unknown
Main office of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League; 24 Brook Street. 1908

Background imageCooperative Collection: Directors of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League; [Samuel G. Craig; Frank Sheldon

Directors of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League; [Samuel G. Craig; Frank Sheldon... 1908 Creator: Unknown
Directors of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business League; [Samuel G. Craig; Frank Sheldon; Theodore Fosque; Emanuel Eccles; Rev. Mark A. Bradley; John E. Bruce; Festus Walden; Henry W

Background imageCooperative Collection: Women, enter the Cooperatives!, 1918. Creator: Nivinsky, Ignati Ignatyevich (1881-1933)

Women, enter the Cooperatives!, 1918. Creator: Nivinsky, Ignati Ignatyevich (1881-1933)
Women, enter the Cooperatives!, 1918. Private Collection

Background imageCooperative Collection: Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. [Porches with mosquito screens]

Background imageCooperative Collection: Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Screen windows and porches are uncommon in cotton cabins

Background imageCooperative Collection: One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937

One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation. Hillhouse, Mississippi. [Porch with mosquito screens]

Background imageCooperative Collection: FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageCooperative Collection: Working in the community garden, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Working in the community garden, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Working in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton. Hillhouse, Mississippi, after one year of operation

Background imageCooperative Collection: Planting corn in the community garden, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Planting corn in the community garden, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Planting corn in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families. Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: Self-help cooperative unit, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Self-help cooperative unit, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative unit. Burbank, California

Background imageCooperative Collection: Self-help cooperative, members of the community, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Self-help cooperative, members of the community, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative. Members of the community. Burbank, California

Background imageCooperative Collection: Loading milk at the self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936

Loading milk at the self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading milk at the self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration. Near Santa Ana, California

Background imageCooperative Collection: Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration, near Santa Ana, California. This dairy supplies milk to the Civilian Conservation Corps camps nearby

Background imageCooperative Collection: Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative dairy. This dairy is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration. Near Santa Ana, California

Background imageCooperative Collection: Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm, Tulare County, California, 1938

Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm. Ten families are now established on this 500 acre ranch to be operated as a unit. (Farm Security Administration) Tulare County, California

Background imageCooperative Collection: Delta cooperative farms in 1938, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Delta cooperative farms in 1938, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farms in 1938. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937

One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: Newly erected community house at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937

Newly erected community house at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Newly erected community house at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. This building houses the library, school, clinic and meeting rooms

Background imageCooperative Collection: The cooperative store at the Delta cooperative farm near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937

The cooperative store at the Delta cooperative farm near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cooperative store at the Delta cooperative farm near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: The poultry unit of the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937

The poultry unit of the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The poultry unit of the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

Background imageCooperative Collection: Sam Franklin, graduate of Union Theological Seminary... Hill House, Mississippi, 1936

Sam Franklin, graduate of Union Theological Seminary... Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sam Franklin, graduate of Union Theological Seminary and director of the Hill House cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas...cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936

Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas...cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas established on Sherwood Eddy's cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageCooperative Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageCooperative Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1938

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageCooperative Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageCooperative Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lake Dick, Arkansas. Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageCooperative Collection: Houses at Lake Dick cooperative, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Houses at Lake Dick cooperative, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Houses at Lake Dick cooperative, Arkansas

Background imageCooperative Collection: Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful. Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan

Background imageCooperative Collection: Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Supplies food, vegetables and milk to members

Background imageCooperative Collection: Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Visalia (vicinity), Tulare County, California. The Farm Security Administration. Miners's cooperative farm. Ten families have been established on the old ranch of 500 acres

Background imageCooperative Collection: Board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California, 1938

Board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These three men comprise the board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California. They were elected by their own group to direct this farm unit

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Visalia (vicinity), Tulare County, California. The Farm Security Administration. Miners's cooperative farm. Ten families have been established on the old ranch of 500 acres

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Background imageCooperative Collection: Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Background imageCooperative Collection: All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester



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Cooperative: Nurturing Unity and Prosperity In the picturesque town of Vermont, amidst rolling green hills and idyllic landscapes, a creamery stood tall in 1941. Milk cans gracefully glided along a conveyor belt, leaving behind the cleansing embrace of a washing machine. This scene epitomized the essence of cooperation - individuals coming together for a common purpose. Across the Atlantic Ocean in Reims, Champagne, a sign proudly adorned the wall of Champagne Palmer. It proclaimed their commitment to being part of something bigger - a big cooperative co-operative. Here, vineyards intertwined their roots with one another to produce exquisite champagne that delighted palates worldwide. The CIS Building on Corporation Street in Manchester was an architectural marvel that symbolized unity and collaboration. Its grandeur reflected the strength found within cooperative efforts as people from diverse backgrounds worked together under its roof. Illustrations brought to life other remarkable cooperation's impact on society. The CWS Sun Flour Mill in Trafford showcased how collective action could transform grains into sustenance for communities far and wide. Meanwhile, the CWS office building emanated efficiency and shared goals through every brick laid upon another. The CWS Grocery Sales Department floated like balloons above bustling streets; it exemplified how cooperation uplifted not only businesses but also entire neighborhoods by providing essential goods with fairness at heart. A hand-colored illustration depicted Crumpsall Biscuit factory owned by CWS – an embodiment of craftsmanship nurtured through mutual support and dedication. The Wheatsheaf Boot illustrated yet another facet where cooperation flourished—shaping industries while empowering workers who relied on each other's skills to create quality footwear for all walks of life. An information slide about Cooperation Movement shed light on its historical significance—a beacon guiding societies towards equitable practices rooted in solidarity rather than division or exploitation. A map showcasing CWS production locations revealed tendrils spreading across regions—an intricate web woven by countless hands working together to bring prosperity and progress.