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Eastern Trout Growers Association Records Aquiculture trade association, New York City Records, 1922-1948. Bulk, 1922-1930. Size: 0.5 linear feet Catalog number: MSS 483 sg 48 Processed by: Rick Stattler, December 1997 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Historical note:
The Eastern Trout Grower's Association was founded in 1922 by several aquiculturists "for the purpose of exchanging information relative to the culture of trout and also relative to the marketing of same." Harry W. Koch contracted as the Association's sales agent; he marketed trout from all members at a fixed price at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. However, members were free to sell at whatever price they desired outside of the New York metropolitan area. The Association also conducted a national survey of trout growers in 1924, and considered various plans to increase the demand for their product on a national scale.
Rowland Hazard III (1881-1945) served as president of the Association from its founding through at least 1926, and his brother Thomas P. "Pierre" Hazard (1892-1968) was president in 1929. The organization remained active through at least 1948.
Scope and content:
This small collection consists mostly of Rowland Hazard III's files from 1922 to 1930. Included are his complete correspondence files from 1922, 1923 and 1926, as well as scattered letters from other years. The correspondence deals largely with marketing and administrative issues, but there is also considerable technical information on the business of raising trout. A May 1929 draft letter to the U.S. Attorney General inquires into the applicability of the Capper-Volstead co-operative marketing act to trout farms, and in the process sketches out the history of the organization and summarizes the technical aspects of trout farming. Perhaps the most valuable part of the collection is the complete file of responses to the 1924 survey, in which dozens of trout growers from across the nation describe their operations. Also of interest are a series of code books from the National Recovery Administration regulating the trout industry during the Great Depression.
Provenance:
Most of these papers were donated by the Hazard family as part of the Hazard Family Papers in 1985, and had been deposited in 1975.
Processing note:
This collection is part of the Hazard Family Papers, which were processed with support from the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, the Beinecke Foundation, and the extended Hazard Family.
Inventory:
Box 1, folder 1. 1922
Box 1, folder 2. 1923-1924
Box 1, folder 3. 1925-1926
Box 1, folder 4. 1927-1930
Box 1, folder 5. 1933-1934, 1948. Mostly National Recovery Administration codes.
Series 2: Survey responses
Box 1, folder 6. General data
Box 1, folder 7. California
Box 1, folder 8. Colorado
Box 1, folder 9. Idaho
Box 1, folder 10. Maine
Box 1, folder 11. Massachusetts
Box 1, folder 12. Michigan
Box 1, folder 13. Montana
Box 1, folder 14. New York
Box 1, folder 15. Oregon
Box 1, folder 16. Pennsylvania
Box 1, folder 17. Rhode Island
Box 1, folder 18. Utah
Box 1, folder 19. Vermont
Box 1, folder 20. Washington
Box 1, folder 21. Wisconsin
Subjects:
Fish-culture
Hazard, Rowland III (1881-1945)
Koch, Harry W.
National Recovery Administration
Trade and professional associations
Trout industry
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