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Collection Number: 5523

Collection Title: Durham (N.C.) Co-Op Grocery Records, 1970s-2000s

This collection has access restrictions. For details, please see the restrictions.

This collection has use restrictions. For details, please see the restrictions.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.

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Size 33 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 20,000 items)
Abstract The collection contains the operational, administrative, and financial records of the Durham Co-Op Grocery, a cooperative natural foods grocery store for local consumers and a community center in Durham, N.C. The records are chiefly from the 1980s to the early 2000s and include articles of incorporation, budgets, payrolls, personnel records, tax permits, reports, grant files and other fundraising materials, vendor files, police reports for vandalism and robberies, food stamp program permits, inventories, minutes of board and membership meetings, membership and staff policy documents, facility files, newsletters and other printed materials, correspondence with Co-op members, membership surveys, and marketing files. Materials reflect the Co-op's interests in alternative approaches to food production and distribution and include information about agricultural laborers, genetic engineering, local organic growers, recycling, and the impact of hurricanes on food production.
Creator Durham (N.C.) Co-Op Grocery.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
Personnel disciplinary records are closed until 1 January 2025.
Restrictions to Use
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Durham (N.C.) Co-Op Grocery Records #5523, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Jeane Bross in May 2012 (Acc. 101593).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Encoded by: Laura Smith

Processed by Nicole Cvjetnicanin and Rebecca Stubbs, May 2019.

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Box 1-8

Operations 

Box 9

Operations Board  

Box 10-11

Operations membership 

Box 12

Operations farishare  

Box 13-14

Operations  

Box 15-19

Financial  

Box 20-21

Promotional/ misc 

Box 22

Personnel disciplinary records

This folder is restricted due to the presence of disciplinary records.
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