M.P. Johnson Papers, 1905-2004

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Biographical information, 1937-2007

Folder 2: Johnson and the American Society of Equity, 1916-1977

Contains newspaper clippings and correspondence pertaining to Johnson and the American Society of Equity. A brief history of the Society is included that was not in the original collection.

Folder 3: Railroad Commissioner, 1916

Folder 4: Nonpartisan League, 1980-1981

Articles pertaining to the Nonpartisan League.

Folder 5: The Organized Farmer (official paper of the American Society of Equity), 1 February 1917

Folder 6: The Equity News, February 2 (two copies) and February 9 (two copies) 1921

Folder 7: M.W. "Bill" Thatcher information, 1968-1976

Thatcher was a friend of M.P. Johnson

Folder 8: Correspondence with Theodore Saloutos, 1937-1940

Also included is an article written by Saloutos about the Equity Cooperative Exchange (1947).

Box 2

Photograph 1: American Society of Equity, Sixth Annual Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1908

Photograph 2: American Society of Equity and the Equity Co-operative Exchange in Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1914

Photograph 3: American Society of Equity, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1915