Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

MS 508
Knapp, Joseph Grant (1900-1983)
Papers, 1910-1983, n.d.


Descriptive summary

creator: Knapp, Joseph Grant (1900-1983)
title: Papers
dates: 1910-1983, n.d.
extent: 4.41 linear feet (10 document boxes and 1 half-document box)
collection number: MS 508
repository: Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access: Open for research
publication rights: Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation: Joseph G. Knapp Papers, MS 508, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Joseph Grant Knapp was born in 1900. Initially he attended the University of Illinois, but became a fellow of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University in 1924 where he went on to receive his Ph.D. (1929). He has also received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Nebraska and North Carolina State University and has taught at both North Carolina State University and Stanford University. In 1934 Knapp became the principal agricultural economist for the Farm Credit Administration. He was the first administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmer Cooperative Service (1953-1966). Knapp also served the Brookings Institution and the Farm Credit Administration. In 1975 he received the Cooperative Foundation Ellerbe Award.

Knapp published a two-volume history of the cooperative movement in the United States: The Rise of American Cooperative Enterprise, 1620-1920 (1969) and The Advance of American Cooperative Enterprise, 1920-1945 (1973). He is also the author of numerous other publications, including Farmers in business, studies in cooperative enterprise (1963); The hard winter wheat pools; an experiment in agricultural marketing integration (1933); The cooperative marketing of livestock (co-author, 1931); Great American cooperators; biographical sketches of 101 major pioneers in cooperative development (1967); Edwin G. Nourse, economist for the people (1979); Seeds that grew; a history of the cooperative grange league federation exchange (1960); An analysis of agricultural cooperation in England (1966); The Glen Haven story (1967); An appraisement of agricultural cooperation in Ireland (1964); and Cooperative farm supply purchasing in the British Isles (1939).

Joseph Knapp passed away in 1983.

 

Collection description

The collection (1910-1983, n.d.) contains correspondence, research materials, and writings, primarily about agricultural cooperatives, including farmer's associations, grower's exchanges, cooperative leagues, and agricultural trading societies. There is considerable correspondence relating to Knapp's research on cooperatives in England during 1964-1965.

American correspondents include the California Fruit Grower's Exchange, New England Milk Producers Association, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Margaret Digby of the Plunkett Foundation for Cooperative Studies. There are also materials relating to Knapp's interest in the career of Edwin G. Nourse.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Acknowledgements

1979

1

2

Agricultural Organization Society notes

n.d.

1

3

Agricultural policy

1927

1

4

American Society of Equity

1916-1921

1

5

Article - "Letter from America"

ca. 1963

1

6

Basset

n.d.

1

7

Book - Nourse/Grether biography

1977-1979, n.d.

1

8

Book promotion

1978-1980

1

9

Book promotion - V. L. Thomas

1980

1

10

Bowen, E. R. - correspondence

1969-1972

1

11

California Fruit Exchange

1946, n.d.

1

12

California Fruit Growers Exchange

1920

1

13

Cheese

1913

1

14

Comments on book

1979-1980

1

15

Cooley, Oscar - correspondence

1969

1

16

Cooperative Credit

1922-1931

1

17

Cooperative League notes

1910, n.d.

1

18

Cooperative League of the USA - correspondence

1968-1970

2

1

Cooperatives - Correspondence - General

1964-1965

2

2

Coops - general

1939-1948

2

3

Cornell oral history project

1966-1975

2

4

Correspondence, February-September

1933

2

5

Correspondence, October-December

1933

2

6

Correspondence

1934

2

7-8

Correspondence - general

1969-1975

2

9

Correspondence - relating to publications

1969-1973

3

1

Cosmos Club - correspondence

1974

3

2

Cranberries

n.d.

3

3

Cranberries

n.d.

3

4

Davis, Joseph - correspondence

1969-1973

3

5

Dust jacket materials

1974, n.d.

3

6

Eggs

1946

3

7

England - Agricultural Central Trading - A. Dashwood correspondence

1964

3

8

England - Agricultural Market Development Executive Committee - P. R. Dodds Correspondence

1964-1965

3

9

England - Agriculture Central Co-operative Association correspondence

1964

3

10

England - Brind and Richardson correspondence

1964-1965

3

11

England - Cecil Edwards correspondence

1964

3

12

England - Cooperative Wholesale Society correspondence

1961-1965

3

13

England - Correspondence - General

1964-1965

3

14

England - D. J. Sneddon

1964-1965

3

15

England - English government correspondence

1965

3

16

England - F. J. Pete correspondence

1964-1965

3

17

England - general research

1965

3

18

England - interview transcript

1964

3

19

England - J. H. Kirk correspondence

1964-1965

3

20

England - James Altson correspondence

1965

3

21

England - Joe Turner correspondence

1964-1965

3

22

England - National Agricultural Advisory Service - W. E. Jones - correspondence

1964-1965

3

23

England - Norman Corke correspondence

1964-1965

3

24

England - North Notts' Farmer Ltd. - correspondence

1964-1965

4

1

England - North Western Farmers - Eric Bradshaw correspondence

1965

4

2

England - Plutkett Foundation - Margaret Digby Correspondence

1964-1965

4

3

England - Southern Counties Agricultural Trading Society correspondence

1964-1965

4

4

England - Wade, John - correspondence

1964-1965

4

5

England - West Midland Farmers' Association - correspondence

1964-1965

4

6

England - Worcestershire Farmers correspondence

1964-1965

4

7

England (Dorset) - Bob Saunders correspondence

1964

4

8

English trip correspondence

1964

4

9

Farmer's Cooperative Exchange - M. G. Mann correspondence

1934-1955

4

10

Farmgate

1962-1964

4

11

Fauquet, G. "Le Secteur Coperatif" translation

1942

4

12

Finance

1962-1965

4

13

Funding

1973

4

14

Future of buying and marketing groups - notes

1964-1965

4

15

Gardner, Kelsey - correspondence

1968-1972

4

16

Grether, E. T. - correspondence

1969-1973

4

17

Hellebust, Hal - correspondence

1973

5

1

Honorary Degree Materials - University of Nebraska

1967

5

2

Honorary Degree Script (University of Nebraska)

1967

5

3

Hood River Apples

1946

5

4

Hull, Harvey - correspondence

1970

5

5

Ideas for Study

n.d.

5

6

Industrialization of Agriculture - General

1927

5

7

Jesness, O. B. - correspondence

1969-1972

5

8

Kenya - Alec Ward - correspondence

1965

5

9

Knapp, John - writings

1974

5

10

Legal

1958-1964

5

11

Marketing Boards - correspondence

1964-1965

5

12

National Farmers Union - Relationship problem

n.d.

5

13

New England Mild Producers Association

1922-1924

5

14

New Zealand - A.T.S. McGhie correspondence

1965

5

15

North Carolina State College Agricultural Economics Department - history

1945

5

16

Nourse biography - preliminary draft

1973

5

17

Nourse, E. G. - Plan of the Book

n.d.

5

18

Nourse, E. G. - publications list

1962, n.d.

5

19

Nourse, E. G., "The Philosophy of cooperative Marketing"

1936

5

20

Oregon

1945

5

21

Plunkett Foundation for Cooperative Studies - Margaret Digby

1951-1964

6

1

Publisher - Ronald McDaniel correspondence

1979

6

2

Purchasing - misc. notes

n.d.

6

3

Raisins/Prunes

1916, n.d.

6

4

Research

1964-1965

6

5

Rice notes

n.d.

6

6

Scottish Agricultural Organization Society - C. J. M. Cadzow - correspondence

1964-1965

6

7

State Councils

1961-1963

6

8

Survey correspondence

1964-1965

6

9

Survey replies (33 questions)

n.d.

6

10

Tennessee Valley Authority - L. C. Salter correspondence

1944

6

11

Tennessee Valley Authority - misc. correspondence

1946-1957

6

12

Tennessee Valley Authority on Cooperatives

1945-1949

6

13

Truman Library - correspondence

1974-1979

7

1

USA - Associated Raisin Company

1919-1920

7

2

USA - California Fruit Exchange

1947

7

3

USA - Cooperative Foundation - correspondence

1969

7

4

USA - Excerpts from the California Citro graph

1915-1923

7

5

USA - International Cooperative Training - correspondence

1968-1970

7

6

USA - Western Trip

1971-1972

7

7

USA Producers Contract

1920

7

8

Valko, Laszlo

1971

7

9

Virginia - Eastern Shore Produce Exchange

1900-1947

7

10

Wales - Elwyn Thomas - correspondence

1964-1965

7

11

Wales - Welsh Agricultural Organization Society correspondence

1964-1965

7

12

Walnuts notes

n.d.

7

13

Wool

n.d.

7

14

Writings

1965

7

15

Writings

1960-1964

7

16

Writings

1957-1959

7

17

Writings

1950-1956

8

1

Agriculture History Society: Correspondence with Everett E. Edwards

1945

8

2-4

Articles by Joseph G. Knapp

1941-1950

8

5

Articles on Co-operatives

1969-1972

8

6

Bibliography of Writings by Joseph G. Knapp

1966 ca.

9

1

Birdsall, Webster J., Director

1947

9

2

Black, John D.: Correspondence

1946

9

3

Book Reviews and Joseph Knapp Biographical Information

1954-1964

9

4

Book Reviews: "Seeds That Grew"

1960-1961

9

5

Brand, Charles J.

1912-1949

9

6

California Fruit Growers Exchange

1933

9

7

Calkins, Robert (Brookings Institution): Papers

1961

9

8

Carver, T. N.

n. d.

9

9

Carver, T. N.: Correspondence

1914,1945

9

10-12

Committee on Biographies (desk file)

1966

9

13

Corn Products

1964-1966

9

14

David, Irving G.

1945

9

15

Digby, Margaret: Correspondence

1951-1963

9

16

Economic Clippings

1972

9

17

Excerpts From "David Lubin: A Study In Practical Idealism"

1941

9

18

Farmers In Business: Compliments

1963-1964

10

1

Farmers in Business: Correspondence

1963-1964

10

2

Farmers In Business: Publicity

1963

10

3

Farrand and Farrand (Attorneys): Correspondence

1912-1947

10

4

Firor, J. William: Correspondence

1945

10

5

Flyers: Correspondence

1981-1983

10

6

Flyers and Other Publicity for Books by Knapp

1974-1983

10

6

Naden, Kenneth (National Council of Farmer Cooperatives): Correspondence

1974,1982

10

7

Guin, Russell: Correspondence

1978-1983

10

8

Hallberg, Owen (American Institute of Cooperation)

1974-1979

10

9

Hussey, Frank W.

1981

10

10

Homan, Reuben: Correspondence

1947

10

11

Mann, M. G. (Farmers Cooperative Exchange)

1956, n.d.

10

12

Miscellaneous Correspondence

1946-1947

10

13

Miscellaneous Excerpts: Pigou, Commons, etc.

1953

10

14

Mississippi Federated Cooperatives: Correspondence with Charlie McNeil

1945

10

15

Morgan, H. A.

n.d.

10

17

Norman, Harry S.: Correspondence

1945

10

18

Notes on Various Subjects

n.d.

10

19

Oregon State College

1947

11

1

Personal Correspondence

1959

11

2

Personal Correspondence

1960

11

3

Radio Talk: "Cooperative Purchasing and Cooperative Marketing Fit Well Together"

1935

11

4

Radio Talk: "Cooperative Supply Buying Increases Farm Efficiency"

1936

11

5

Radio Talk: "How Cooperative Farm Supply Associations Work"

1935

11

6

Radio Talk: "Two Examples of Successful Large Scale Purchasing Associations"

1935

11

7

Radio Talk: "The Widening Circle of Cooperative Farm Supply Purchasing"

1935

11

8

Sapiro, Aaron

1923-1937

11

9

Scotland: Christmas Card and Dictaphone Cards

1963-1964, n.d.

11

10

Scottish and Welsh Agricultural Organization Societies

1963

11

11-12

Speeches and Writings

1930-1949

11

13

Source Materials

n.d.

11

14

Stanton, Beryle: Correspondence

1973-1979

11

15

Terms of Study : Agricultural Cooperation in England

1963-1964

11

16

Trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil (2- 5x7 b/w photographs)

1967

11

17

University of Kentucky: Correspondence

1946

11

18

University of Kentucky: Brookings Foundation Correspondence

1945-1946