Charter, by-laws and history

Boxes 10-25

This series is the largest and most inclusive with its number of items. There are 131 pieces of correspondence that document the efforts of Hamer and others, especially Harris, Myles Foster, Sandra Nystrom, Harry Bowie, and the Madison Measure for Measure, to organize the FFC and solicit funds to buy land and equipment, and secure other necessities for the Corporation. There is an extensive collection of financial correspondence that mostly documents the FFC's sources of income and sometimes its financial problems. The series also contains an almost complete set of check receipt journals reflecting expenditures, receipts from cotton mills with which the FFC conducted business, and receipts for produce grown by the FFC for large food-processing companies such as Heinz. There is also a separate and extensive file listing contributors.