Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
-
Biographical Note
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
-
Detailed Description of the Collection
- University of Washington Student Cooperative Association
- Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
- Co-Op Agency, Inc.
- Co-Op Insurance Agency, Inc.
- Cooperative League of the United States, Cascade Chapter
- Cooperative Services, Inc. organizational papers
- Cooperative League of the United States
- Adhesive Products Company
- Personal papers
- Names and Subjects
Robert C. Scott papers, 1935-1960
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Scott, Robert C., 1912-
- Title
- Robert C. Scott papers
- Dates
- 1935-1960 (inclusive)19351960
- Quantity
- 4.83 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- 0579 (Accession No. 0579-001)
- Summary
- Papers of a leader of cooperative movement and chemist of Seattle, Washington
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Open to all users. Access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact Special Collections for more information.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Robert C. Scott was a charter member of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (founded 1946) and served on its Board of Directors from 1946-1953. From 1946-1948, he was chairman of the Group Health Cooperative Finance Committee.
Scott's interest in the cooperative movement grew out of his enthusiastic involvement in the Student Cooperative Association (S.C.A.) at the University of Washington during his student years (1931-1937). He was a founder and charter member of the S.C.A. and served four terms as president of its Board.
Often one local cooperative organization spawned others as members defined their needs and evolved cooperative solutions. Such an organization was the Co-op Agency, Inc. of which Scott was a founder and Board member from 1953-1958. The agency was organized as a buyer's club (mostly of food) but soon was providing its cooperators with appliances, loans and other services through a number of subsidiaries and related organizations. In 1954, the Agency had approximately 300 members.
On the national level, Scott served a term (1950-1954) on the Board of Directors of the Cooperative League of the United States, an association linking nearly ten million families through thousands of member cooperative ventures. Its local branch, the Cascade Chapter (founded 1949), fostered the development of many Puget Sound area consumer cooperatives, chief among which was the Consumer Insurance Agency, Inc. Robert Scott was an original board member.
Scott was also a research chemist for Adhesive Products Company, a division of American Marietta.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records and publications, 1935-1960.
The papers of Robert C. Scott reflect his activity in a network of Seattle area cooperative associations. Thus, the Group Health Cooperative series, which forms the core of Scott's papers, is in large part the early financial records of Group Health, including budget and capital planning files, as well as annual audits.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Quotation for publication permitted.
Preferred Citation
Robert C. Scott papers. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in nine series:
- University of Washington Student Cooperative Association
- Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
- Co-Op Agency, Inc.
- Co-Op Insurance Agency, Inc.
- Cooperative League of the United States, Cascade Chapter
- Cooperative Services, Inc. Organization
- Cooperative League of the United States
- Adhesive Products Company
- Personal papers
The papers are arranged in order of importance; a small number of personal papers are placed at the end.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
University of Washington Student Cooperative AssociationReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Organization |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Bylaws |
1935-1948, undated |
1/2 | Related papers |
undated |
Box/Folder | ||
1/3 | General
correspondence |
1939-1957, undated |
Minutes |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/4 | Board meetings |
1948-1950, undated |
1/5 | Membership meetings |
1948-1954 |
Financial records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/6-8 | Audit reports |
1939-1952 |
1/9 | Operating statement |
1940-1952, undated |
Conferences and
conventions |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/10-11 | Pacific Coast Student
Cooperative League Annual Conference |
1939-1946, undated |
Newsletters |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/12-13 | Alumni newsletter |
1940-1955 |
2/1-2 |
Student Cooperative Association News
|
1938-1949, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
2/3 | Clippings |
1949-1957, undated |
2/4 | Ephemera |
1939-1953, undated |
2/5 | Subject series: Pacific Coast
Students Cooperative League |
1939-1946, undated |
Group Health Cooperative of Puget SoundReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Organization |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/6 | By-laws |
1946-1955, undated |
2/7 | Committees and
staff |
1950-1956, undated |
2/8 | Member districts |
1949-1959, undated |
2/9 | Membership
materials |
1952-1953, undated |
2/10 | Policies |
1949-1954, undated |
2/11 | Tables of
organization |
1951-1952, undated |
Correspondence |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/12 | Incoming letters |
1949-1955 |
2/13 | Outgoing letters |
1949-1955, undated |
2/14-15 | General correspondence - Robert C. Scott |
1948-1955 |
2/16-17, 3/1 | Interoffice correspondence |
1946-1956, undated |
3/2 | Membership circulars |
1946-1951 |
Personnel records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/3 | Agreements |
1951-1954 |
3/4-5 | Contracts |
1946-1953 |
3/6 | General
correspondence |
1949-1954 |
3/7 | Interoffice
correspondence |
1950-1954, undated |
3B/1 | Employee records |
1950-1954, undated |
3/9 | Statistics |
1948-1956 |
Box/Folder | ||
3/10 | Minutes of miscellaneous regional
meetings |
1947-1956 |
Financial records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/11-14 | Audit reports |
1948-1953 |
4/1-2 | Income statements |
1948-1953 |
4/3-7 | Balance sheets |
1949-1955 |
4/10 | Budget summaries and
revisions |
1948-1955 |
4/10 | Capital budgeting |
1948-1955 |
4/11 | Clinic and hospital operating
statements |
1947-1951 |
4/12-14, 5/1-2 | Consolidated
statements |
1947-1954 |
Box/Folder | ||
5/3-4 | Membership statistics
|
1947-1955, undated |
5/5 | Court papers |
1949-1957 |
5/6-10 | Reports |
1948-1955 |
5/11-12 | Newsletter -
Group Health News and Information
|
1947-1958, undated |
6/1-3 | Conference: Annual and
Semi-Annual Group Health Cooperative Membership Meeting |
1947-1956 |
6/4 | Clippings |
1946-1949 |
6/5 | Photographs |
1965, undated |
6/6-7 | Notes |
undated |
6/8-9 | Ephemera, Group Health
Cooperative |
1949-1954, undated |
6/10 | Ephemera, other |
undated |
6/11 | Subject series: Cooperative
Health Federation of America |
1949-1952 |
Board of Trustees |
||
Box/Folder | ||
6/12 | Interoffice
correspondence |
1946-1953, undated |
6/13-15, 7/1-14 | Minutes |
1947-1957 |
Committee related papers |
||
Box/Folder | ||
7/15 | Conference Committee
(Joint) |
1954-1956 |
7/16 | Contract Revisions
Committee |
undated |
8/1 | District Executive Committee
minutes |
1950-1955 |
8/2-6 | Executive Committee (Joint)
minutes |
1947-1956 |
Finance and Management
Committee |
||
Box/Folder | ||
8/7 | Interoffice correspondence -
memoranda |
1948-1953, undated |
8/8 | Report: "An Organizational
Survey of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound" |
1952 |
8/9-14 | Minutes |
1948-1956 |
Box/Folder | ||
8/15 | Health Education
Committee |
1951 |
8/16-17 | Hospital and Credentials
Committee minutes |
1954-1956 |
8/18 | Medical Executive
Committee |
1950-1952 |
8/19 | Member Relations
Committee |
1949-1951 |
Planning Committee |
||
Box/Folder | ||
9/1 | Interoffice correspondence
|
1952-1954 |
9/2-3 | Minutes |
1951-1956 |
Review Committee |
||
Box/Folder | ||
9/4 | Minutes |
1952-1954 |
9/5 | Annual reports |
1950, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
9/6-10 | Welfare Committee
minutes |
1952-1956 |
Box/Folder | ||
9/11 | Credit Union |
1956-1960, undated |
9/12 | Dental Program |
undated |
Co-Op Agency, Inc.Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
9/13 | Organization |
1953-1956, undated |
Correspondence |
||
Box/Folder | ||
9/14 | Incoming letters |
1953-1954 |
9/15 | Outgoing letters |
1953-1958 |
9/16 | Interoffice correspondence |
1953-1954, undated |
9/17 | Membership circulars |
1954, undated |
Minutes |
||
Box/Folder | ||
9/18 | Annual Membership
Meeting |
1953-1957, undated |
9/19-20 | Board of Trustees |
1953-1958, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
9/21 | Legal documents |
1953-1960, undated |
9/22 | Writings |
undated |
Financial records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
9/23-24 | Operating
statements |
1953-1958, undated |
10/1 | Audit reports |
1956-1957 |
Newsletters |
||
Box/Folder | ||
10/2 |
Pacific Northwest Cooperator
|
1946-1950 |
10/2 |
Co-op Agency Newsletter
|
1954 |
10/2 |
King Co-opper
|
1953-1954 |
Box/Folder | ||
10/3 | Subject series - Northend and
Evergreen Co-Ops |
1949-1955, undated |
Co-Op Agency, Inc. Cooperative
Finance Corporation |
||
Box/Folder | ||
10/4 | Organization |
1960, undated |
10/5 | Incoming letters |
1954-1960 |
10/6 | Interoffice correspondence |
1959-1960, undated |
Minutes |
||
Box/Folder | ||
10/7 | Annual Meeting of
Shareholders |
1959 |
10/8 | Board of
Directors |
1953-1960 |
Box/Folder | ||
10/9 | Financial records |
1954-1959, undated |
10/10 | Ephemera |
undated |
Box/Folder | ||
10/11 | Co-Op Agency, Inc., Freezer
Foods, Inc. |
1954-1956, undated |
Co-Op Insurance Agency, Inc.Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
10/12 | Organization |
1951, undated |
10/13 | General
correspondence |
1949-1953 |
10/14 | Correspondence - membership
circulars |
1952-1953, undated |
Minutes |
||
Box/Folder | ||
10/15 | Board of Directors |
1951-1952 |
10/16 | Board of Trustees |
1952-1953 |
10/17 | Organizing
Committee |
1950 |
Box/Folder | ||
10/18 | Financial records |
1954-1955 |
10/19 | Reports |
1948-1952, undated |
Cooperative League of the United States, Cascade ChapterReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
10/20 | Organization |
1949-1953, undated |
10/21 | Interoffice correspondence
|
1949-1954 |
10/22 | Correspondence - membership
circulars |
1950-1952, undated |
Minutes |
||
Board of Trustees |
1952 | |
Box/Folder | ||
11/1 | Reports |
1951-1952 |
11/2-3 | Newsletters -
Cascade Coop News
|
1948-1951 |
Cooperative Services, Inc. organizational papers, 1953, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 11/4
Cooperative League of the United StatesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
11/5 | General
correspondence |
1950-1954, undated |
11/6 | Interoffice
correspondence |
1953-1954 |
Minutes |
||
Box/Folder | ||
11/7 | Biennial Congress |
1954 |
11/8 | Board of Directors |
1953-1954 |
11/9 | Executive Committee |
1954 |
Speeches and writings |
||
Box/Folder | ||
11/10 |
Out of Debt, Out of Danger
(excerpts) by Jerry Voorhis |
1953 |
Financial records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
11/11 | Audit reports |
1952-1953 |
11/12 | Income statements |
1953-1954 |
Box/Folder | ||
11/13 | Reports |
1953, undated |
11/14 | Newsletter |
1952-1954 |
11/15 | Ephemera |
1943-1953 |
Adhesive Products CompanyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
11/16 | General
correspondence |
1940-1943 |
11/17 | Interoffice correspondence
|
1939-1949, undated |
11/18 | Reports |
1941, undated |
11/19 | Photographs |
1948 |
11/20 | Subject series - industrial
adhesives |
1941-1944, undated |
Personal papers Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
12/1 | Incoming letters |
1940-1945, undated |
Subject series |
||
American Chemical Society,
Puget Sound Section |
||
Box/Folder | ||
12/2 | Related papers |
1938-1946 |
12/3-4 |
The Puget Sound Chemistnewsletter |
1939-1947 |
12/5 | Ephemera |
1945-1947, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
12/6 | K-2 Expedition - incoming
letters |
1953 |
12/7 | Washington State Farm Chemurgic
Committee |
1939-1948 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Consumer cooperatives--Washington (State)
- Cooperative societies--Washington (State)
- Insurance companies--Washington (State)
- Medical cooperation--Washington (State)
- Student cooperatives--Washington (State)
Personal Names
- Scott, Robert C., 1912---Archives (creator)
Corporate Names
- Adhesive Products Company (Seattle, Wash.)
- Co-Op Agency (Wash.)
- Cooperative League of the U.S.A
- Cooperative League of the U.S.A. Cascade Chapter (Wash.)
- Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
- Students' Cooperative Association (University of Washington)
Geographical Names
- Washington (State)--Societies, etc
Form or Genre Terms
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Memorandums
- Publications
- Reports
Occupations
- Chemists
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)