Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BUSINESS.) Archive of stockholder material from the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative supermarket. 10 items, various sizes; condition strong. New York, 1968-1969 and undated

Additional Details

Stock certificate in the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative, November 1968.

Coupon sheet for the Harlem Co-Op Supermarket, January 1969.

Broadside asking "Why Does the Strike at Harlem Co-Op Supermarket Continue?", questioning the motives of Local 338 of the Retail Employees Union, 1 August 1969.

Ballot and candidate biographies for the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative board elections, 28 September 1969. The prospective board members tout their involvement in the Co-Op, as well as their involvement in local churches, employment ranging from beautician to postal clerk to aerospace engineer; and loyalty during the recent strike.

Pamphlet, "If You Like a Good Investment that Builds the Community, Then You'll Like Harlem River Consumers Cooperative," 24 pages, circa 1968.

Brochure, "Us and We . . . Can Be Self-Buyers," undated.

Application blank for purchase of stock, undated.

Completed but unsubmitted "Stockholders' Survey," undated. "What do you like about the Harlem Co-Op Supermarket? Belongs to Blacks." What do you not like? Location; too far away from where I live."

Pinback button, "I Have Shares, Have You? Harlem Co-Op Member." 1 inch in diameter, by Empress Specialty Company, New York.