Michigan CROP Collection
00253

Summary Information

Repository
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Creator
Michigan Christian Rural Overseas Program.
Title
Michigan CROP collection
ID
00253
Date [inclusive]
1950-1983
Extent
0.8 Cubic feet
Language
English

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."

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Biographical/Historical

The Christian Rural Overseas Program, also known as CROP, was formed in 1947 through a joint effort between the Church World Service, Lutheran World Relief, and the National Catholic Welfare Program to help combat hunger worldwide. CROP received gifts from farmers who donated parts of their harvest to the program. Each state had its own director and committee who worked with county and local committees. Local church representatives were responsible for gathering collections to help add to the effort.

This collection focuses only on the Michigan CROP. Included in the photographs are numerous Michigan communities and farmers that donated goods, mostly beans, to help ease world hunger.

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Scope and Content

This collection consists of materials from the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) relating to Michigan. Included in the collection are minutes of the CROP Board of Managers, proclamations, incorporation materials, and flyers from their 25th anniversary. Also included is a scrapbook and several photographs and negatives of rail cars being loaded and shipped with beans, the Heifer Project, and the Friendship Acres where people donated part of their harvest to the Michigan CROP.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections February 2, 2016

Conrad Hall
888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Legal Status

Copyright: Michigan State University. Property Rights: Michigan State University.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Christian Rural Overseas Program.
  • Church World Service.
  • Heifer Project.
  • Michigan Christian Rural Overseas Program.

Genre(s)

  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Minutes (Records)
  • Negatives (Photographs)
  • Photographs
  • Scrapbooks

Subject(s)

  • Farmers -- Michigan
  • Food relief
  • Food relief, American
  • Soybean -- Michigan

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Collection Inventory

Box Folder

Articles of Incorporation of Michigan CROP 1964-1971 

 1 1

Friendship Acres undated 

 1 2

Michigan CROP Board of Managers Minutes of Meetings 1952-1971 
Box Folder

Part 1 1952-1959 

 1 3

Part 2 1960-1965 

 1 4

Part 3 1966-1971 

 1 5
Box Folder

Michigan CROP 25th Anniversary 1972 

 1 6

Newspaper Clippings 
Box Folder

 November 24, 1970 

 1 7

Friendship Acres 1962-1963 

 1 8
Box Folder

Proclamations from the Governors of Michigan 1950-1983 

 1 9

Photos 
Box Folder

Bean and Milk Shipment May 17, 1967 

 1 10

Bean Shipment to Haiti from Saginaw July 9, 1964 

 1 11

Beans Being Shipped to Greece September 10, 1963 

 1 12

Beans Loading on Ship and Clothing Pickup Boxes September 13, 1965 

 1 13

"Blessing of the Beans" July 1987 

 1 14

Board Members 1969, 1970, and undated 

 1 15

Church Groups 1961, 1967, and undated 

 1 16

Corn Ready for Shipment from Kalamazoo County December 27, 1962 

 1 17

Crabapple Jelly Shipment 1959 and 1962 

 1 18

CROP Day in Linden October 1963-1964 

 1 19

CROP Dedication at Manhattan, Kansas November 24, 1957 

 1 20

CROP Project Friendship Acres 1960-1962, undated 

 1 21

CROP Shipments 1960-1968, undated 

 1 22

Dedication of Wheat in Ionia October 1955 

 1 23

Dimondale October 1960 

 1 24

FFA Groups 1966 and undated 

 1 25

Heifer Project 
Box Folder

CROP Heifers Being Loaded at MSU headed to the Dominican Republic February 1968 

 1 26

Heifers June 1955 

 1 27

Heifers Being Delivered in Greece 1958 

 1 28

Heifers Destined for Germany July 1955 

 1 29

Heifers Destined for Mexico undated 

 1 30

Heifers in Tunisia January 1967 

 1 31

People. Campbell, John August 4, 1957 

 1 32

Young Girl Holding a Chicken undated 

 1 33
Box Folder

Hope College July 17, 1969 

 1 34

Lansing Council of Churches undated 

 1 35

Men from CROP, Farm Bureau, and FFA 1961 and undated 

 1 36

Men on Tractors 1962 and 1964 

 1 37

Men Standing Out in Wheat and Corn Fields September 1962 and August 196? 

 1 38

Michigan Bean Queen Holding a bag of Soybeans 1963 

 1 39

Michigan Heifers at Feeding Trough; Falfurrias, Texas May 1964 

 1 40

Milk Shipment from Elsie, Michigan to France-Algerian Refugees and Others May 15, 1962 

 1 41

People undated 

 1 42

People Receiving Aid from CROP 1964 and undated 

 1 43

People's Church of East Lansing. Lansing CROP Dinner October 1961 

 1 44

Saline Corn Collection December 1961 

 1 45

Saginaw Bean Dedication August 1961 

 1 46

Saginaw Bean Shipment April 23, 1962 

 1 47

Saginaw Shipment of Beans August 10, 1964 

 1 48

Shipment Leaving from St. Johns in Clinton County 1960 

 1 49

Shipment of Biafra Beans August 1968 

 1 50

Shipment of Cranberry Beans from Montcolm and Gratiot County September 6, 1962 

 1 51

Soybean Shipment March 1964 

 1 52

Soybean Shipments 1965 and 1967 

 1 53

Two Railcars Shipped with Beans March 14, 1967 

 1 54

Vestaburg Bean Shipment 1969 

 1 55
Box Folder

Negatives. CROP Shipments undated 

 1 56

Scrapbook 1950-1955, undated 

 1 57