Great Western Sugar Company
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Kenneth W. Rock
Collection
Identifier: UKWR
Abstract
The Papers of Kenneth W. Rock focus on the history of the migration of Germans from Russia to Colorado, course work related to Vienna, and references countries that he traveled and taught study abroad programs. Kenneth W. Rock is Professor Emeritus of History at Colorado State University. His research and teaching focused on the Habsburg Empire, Central and Eastern Europe, European Biography, and the Germans from Russia Immigration experience. He taught undergraduate European history courses...
Dates:
1870-2015; Majority of material found within 1974-2005
Papers of Robert R. Owen
Collection
Identifier: ARRO
Abstract
Robert R. Owen served as president of Great Western Sugar Company (GWS) from 1968 to 1975. He was instrumental in the formation of the cooperative which tried to buy out the company in the mid-1970s. The collection includes personal and working papers, daily desk notes, scrapbooks, numerous publications related to sugar production, photographs, and artifacts from Owen's personal life and his time with GWS.
Dates:
1952-2009; Majority of material found within 1970-1976
Records of the Great Western Sugar Company
Collection
Identifier: AGWS
Abstract
The Great Western Sugar Company, incorporated on February 27, 1905, was the dominant producer of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska beet sugar for over sixty years. Each new factory of the Great Western Sugar Company quickly became the hub of the agricultural community in which it was built. Materials include financial and administrative records, correspondence, reports, company publications, subject files, newspaper clippings, photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, audio and...
Dates:
1893-1984; Majority of material found within 1901-1977
Records of Wright Water Engineers, Inc.
Collection
Identifier: WWWE
Abstract
Wright Water Engineers, Inc., is a Colorado-based water resources consulting firm founded by Kenneth R. Wright. Since 1961 the company has undertaken projects concerning agricultural and irrigation engineering, water rights, flood control and drainage, dams, and groundwater in Colorado as well as other states and countries. The collection contains files from select Colorado projects, as well as one in New Mexico/Texas. Also present are the files of Wright-McLaughlin Engineers (1964-1982), a...
Dates:
1882-2006; Majority of material found within 1965-1999
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- Audiotapes 2
- Colorado 2
- Slides (photographs) 2
- Videotapes 2
- Aerial photographs 1
- Arkansas River Watershed 1
- Audiocassettes 1
- Austria 1
- Big Thompson Canyon (Colo.) 1
- Big Thompson River (Colo.) 1
- Bulgaria 1
- Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) 1
- College teachers 1
- Croatia 1
- Czechoslovakia 1
- DVD-Video discs 1
- Dams -- Colorado 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Floods -- Colorado -- Big Thompson Canyon 1
- Floods -- Colorado -- Big Thompson River 1
- Fort Collins (Colo.) 1
- France 1
- Groundwater 1
- Hungary 1
- International education 1
- Kansas 1
- Maps 1
- Microfilms 1
- Montana 1
- Motion pictures (visual works) 1
- Nebraska 1
- Negatives 1
- Newspaper clippings 1
- Newspapers 1
- Northglenn (Colo.) 1
- Oral history 1
- Oral history -- Colorado 1
- Poland 1
- Reservoirs -- Colorado 1
- Rhineland (Germany) 1
- Rio Grande Watershed (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) 1
- Romania 1
- Russian Germans 1
- Russian Germans -- Colorado 1
- Russian Germans -- Relocation 1
- Russian archives 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.) 1
- Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District (Colo.) 1
- Soviet Union 1
- Standley Lake (Colo.) 1
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.) 1
- Sugar beet 1
- Sugar beet industry 1
- Sugar beet industry -- Colorado 1
- Sugar factories 1
- Sugar industry -- Colorado 1
- United States 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Vienna (Austria) 1
- Volga River Region (Russia) 1
- Water resources development 1
- Water rights -- Colorado 1
- Water-supply -- Colorado 1
- Windsor (Colo.) 1
- Yugoslavia 1 + ∧ less
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