TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Historical Note
Arrangement
Restrictions
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Corporate Financial Records
Sugar Industry Reports
Legal Records
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Imperial Sugar Company Collection:
An Inventory of Records at the Houston Metropolitan
Research Center, Houston Public Library
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| Creator | Imperial Sugar Company |
| Title: | Imperial Sugar Company Collection |
| Inclusive | 1904 to 1955 |
| Bulk | 1916 to 1928 |
| Identification | RG D 9 |
| Extent | 22 linear ft.: 6 rs boxes, 2 doc boxes, 6 volumes |
| Repository | Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public
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The Imperial Sugar Company is the most important corporation belonging to Sugarland Industries, which is also composed of the Sugarland Manufacturing Company, Sealy Mattress Company, and Imperial Mercantile Company.
Appropriately, the headquarters of Sugarland Industries is Sugar Land, Texas. For most this century, Sugar Land has been a company town. "Every industrial, business and public activity," wrote an enthusiastic visitor, "is controlled by the Sugarland Industries for its livelihood."
This collection was acquired from the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association depository at the University of Houston. Most of the material in it is either financial or legal in nature, and falls between the years of 1905 and 1940. It illustrates the national and international operations of many Texas corporations. The Imperial Sugar Company, for instance, is the largest single importer in the entire state of Texas. Raw cane sugar from around the world is freighted to company owned wharves in Galveston and Houston aboard a fleet of company owned ships, where it is transferred by the trainload to Sugar Land for refinement. By 1971, Imperial's plant production exceeded 3 million pounds of refined sugar daily--enough, by itself, to satisfy the sugar consumption of Texas and surrounding states. Since it began production early in this century under the direction of Galveston businessman I. H. Kempner, the Imperial Sugar Company has marketed over 30 billion pounds of refined cane sugar. It is the only sugar company in Texas, one of the only two west of the Mississippi river, and one of the most profitable in the nation.
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Arrangement
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| | Series 1: Corporate Financial Records |
| | Series 2: Sugar Industry Reports |
| | Series 3: Legal Records |
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Access Restrictions
None.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish or reproduce materials from the Imperial Sugar Company Collection must be obtained from the Houston Metropolitan Research Center or the appropriate copyright holder.
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| Subjects |
| | Corporations--Texas--Sugar Land |
| | Sugar trade--Texas--History |
| | Sugarcane industry--United States |
| Subjects (Names) |
| | Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967 |
| | Cunningham, Edward E. |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Imperial Sugar Company |
| | Cunningham Sugar Company |
| | Sealy Mattress Company |
| | Sugarland Manufacturing Company |
| | Sugarland Industries |
| Subjects (Places) |
| | Sugar Land (Tex.)--History |
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Imperial Sugar Company Collection. Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library.
Donated by Robert V. Haynes, Associate Provost, University of Houston in August 1977.
Processed by Howard Beeth, February 10, 1982.
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Corporate Financial Records
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| 1 | 1 | | Imperial Sugar Company: company communication code, 1905 |
| 2 | | Imperial Sugar Company and Imperial Mercantile Company: financial appraisal of plants, with blueprints, 1909 |
| 3 | | Imperial Sugar Company, Imperial Mercantile Company, Sealy Mattress Company, Sugarland Feed Company, Home Packing Company, Sugarland Pulp and Paper Company: financial appraisal of plants, with blueprints, 1914 |
| 4 | | Imperial Sugar Company: financial appraisal of Plant B, 1917 |
| 5 | | Imperial Sugar Company: depreciated summary report, Plant B, 1917 |
| 6 | | Imperial Sugar Company: finanical appraisal of Plant B, 1919 |
| 7 | | Imperial Sugar Company: financial appraisal of Plant B, 1920 |
| 8 | | Imperial Sugar Company: depreciated summary report, Plant B, 1920 |
| 9 | | Imperial Sugar Company: general ledger of accounts receivable, 1921 to 1924 |
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| 2 | 1 | | Imperial Sugar Company: advertising, 1930 to 1931 |
| 2 | | Imperial Sugar Company: stock sales cash book, 1930 to 1932 |
| 3 | | Imperial Sugar Company: accounts payable, 1937 to 1940 |
| 4 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: report on sugar factories owned by Edward E. Cunningham, 1905 |
| 5 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: record of refined sugar made and shipped, 1906 to 1908 |
| 6 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: daily financial statement, 1908 |
| 7 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: financial appraisal of plants, with blueprints, 1909 |
| 8 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: financial appraisal of machinery out of commission, 1909 |
| 9 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: depreciated summary report, 1919 |
| 10 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: depreciated summary report, Plant E, 1920 |
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| 3 | 1 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: financial appraisal, 1917 |
| 2 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: depreciated summary report, 1917 |
| 3 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: financial appraisal of Plant E, 1919 |
| 4 | | Cunningham Sugar Company: financial appraisal of Plant E, 1920 |
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| 1 | | | Imperial Sugar Company: trial balance ledger, 1909 to 1913 |
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| 2 | | | Imperial Sugar Company: trial balance ledger, 1914 to 1919 |
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| 3 | | | Imperial Sugar Company: audited vouchers, accounts receivable, advertising accounts, bills payable, salary and expenses of O. S. Bruck, Jr. etc., 1917 to 1918 |
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| 4 | | | Imperial Sugar Company: daily distribution of sales, 1928 to 1934 |
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| 5 | | | Cunningham Sugar Company: trial balance, 1904 to 1905, 1913 to 1918 |
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| 6 | | | Cunningham Sugar Company: general ledger, 1905 to 1907 |
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| 4 | 1 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: auditor's report, June 1916 |
| 2 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: auditor's report, July 1916 |
| 3 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: auditor's report, August 1916 |
| 4 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: auditor's report, October 1916 |
| 5 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: financial statement, November 1916 |
| 6 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: cost of acid, December 1916 |
| 7 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: financial appraisal of sprinkler system, Plant F, 1917 |
| 8 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: financial appraisal, 1917 |
| 9 | | Sealy Mattress Company: financial appraisal, 1917 |
| 10 | | Sealy Mattress Company: depreciated summary report, Plant C, 1917 |
| 11 | | Sealy Mattress Company: financial appraisal, 1919 |
| 12 | | Sealy Matress Company: financial appraisal, 1920 |
| 13 | | Sugarland Industries: salvage report on acid plant, 1920 |
| 14 | | Sugarland Industries: salvage report on sugar plant, 1920 |
| 15 | | Sugarland Industries: salvage report on vinegar plant, 1920 |
| 16 | | Sugarland Industries: employees register, 1921 to 1925 |
| 17 | | Sugarland Industries: financial appraisal of land holdings in Fort Bend County, Harris County, Brazos River, and Jones Creek right-of-way and Houston, 1922 |
| 18 | | Sugarland Industries: financial appraisal of land holdings in Fort Bend County and Harris County 1922 |
| 19 | | Imperial Bank and Trust Company: minutes of stockbroker's and board of director's meetings, 1908 to 1909 |
| 20 | | Sugarland Feed Company: memorandum on proposed system of accounting, 1914 |
| 21 | | Imperial Mercantile Company: financial appraisal of Plant A, 1917 |
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Sugar Industry Reports
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| 5 | 1 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: by-laws, Undated |
| 2 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: certificate of incorporation, 1927 |
| 3 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: Statistical Report number 15: Deliveries of U. S., Foreign and Insular Refined and Beet Sugar, 1927 to 1932 |
| 4 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: Statistical Report number 17: Shipments by Differential Routes from the Atlantic Seaboard and New Orleans, calendar years 1928 to 1932 |
| 5 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: Statistical Report number 18: Deliveries of U.S. Refiners-Imported Refined and Beet Sugars for the First Quarter of the Years 1927 to 1933 |
| 6 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: Statistical Report number 19: Deliveries of U. S. Refiners-Imported Refined and Beet Sugar, January 1st to September 30th, of the years 1927 to 1933 |
| 7 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: Statistical Report number 21: Shipments by Differential and Barge Routes from the Atlantic Seaboard and New Orleans, calendar years 1929 to 1933 |
| 8 | | The Sugar Institute, Inc.: Statistical Report number 23: Study of Sugar used by Manufacturers and for Household Consumption, 1929 to 1931 |
| 9 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Sugar and the Home Cane Sugar Refiners," 1937 |
| 10 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Testimony of Labor and Management of the Continential Cane Sugar Refining Industry, Requesting and Adequate Protection Against Refined Sugar Imported from Cuba," 1939 |
| 11 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Statement of the United States Cane Sugar Industry, Requesting that an Adequate Differential between the Tariff Rates on Raw and Refined Sugar Imported from Cuba be Established in the Second Supplemental Trade Agreement which may be Negotiated with Cuba," Undated |
| 12 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Graphic Summary of the Sugar Question," 1940 |
| 13 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Sugar and the National Defense," 1940 |
| 14 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "The Threat of Dextrose: Four Possible Alternatives," 1941 |
| 15 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Why H. R. 3582 Should Be Defeated," 1941 |
| 16 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Cuba is Helped, Not Harmed, by the Sugar Bills, S. 2041 and H.R. 5988," Undated |
| 17 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Memorandum Regarding the Economic Aspects of Fixing a Ceiling Price on Refined Cane Sugar," 1942 |
| 18 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Report on the Activities of the U.S. Cane Sugar Refiners' Association for the Fiscal Year, November 1, 1941 to October 31, 1942" 1942 |
| 19 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Report on the Activities of the Cane Sugar Refiners' War Committee, January to December, 1942" 1942 |
| 20 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "Sugar in these Days of Rationing: A Review of Pointed Opinions by Home Economists from all over the United States," Undated |
| 21 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: Report, "In the Matter of Sweetened condensed Milk," 1943 |
| 22 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: newspaper clipping file on sugar legislation, July 1937 |
| 23 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: newspaper clipping file on sugar legislation, August 1937 |
| 24 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: newspaper clipping file, "Protest of Philadelphia Labor Against Off-Shore Refined Sugar," 1938 |
| 25 | | United States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association: newspaper clipping file, "Editorial Comment and News Clipping on the Sugar Bills S. 937 and H.R. 3582," 1941 |
| 26 | | Congressional Record: the debate on S. 937, 1941 |
| 27 | | United States Tariff commission: report, "Investigation No. 66 for the Purpose of Section 336 of the Tariff Act of 1930: A Brief of Domestic Sugar Industries," 1932 |
| 28 | | United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Administration: transcript of hearing sugar cane purchases and wage rates, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, "" 1937 |
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Legal Records
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| 6 | 1 | | United States of America, Petitioner, The Sugar Institute, Inc., et. al., Defendants, District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York: vol. I , Brief for the Petitioner, undated; vol. II Petitioner's Reply Brief, 1932; vol. III, Memorandum in Answer to Government's Statistical Material First Presented on Pages 243-253 of the Reply Brief, undated; vol. IV, Brief for the Defendants on the Law (Economic Briefs); vol. V, Brief for the Defendants on the Facts; vol. VI, Partial transcript of trial. |
| 2 | | Old Colony Trust Company, Plaintiff, v. The Sugarland Industries, Defendant: Brief for Defendant, District Court of the United States, Southern District of Texas, undated. |
| 3 | | The Sugarland Industries et. al., Appellants, v. Old Colony Trust Company, Appellee, and Old Colony Trust Company, Cross Appellant, v. The Sugarland Industries et. al., Cross Appellees: Brief for Sugarland Industries, undated |
| 4 | | The Prison Commission of Texas v. The Imperial Sugar Company (Correspondence, contracts, and trial transcript), District Court, Walker County, Texas, 1911 to 1912 |
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| 7 | 1 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Contracts and Resolutions, 1909 to 1918 |
| 2 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Fiscal Report, 1913 |
| 3 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Daily Sales, 1926 to 1931 |
| 4 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Statement of Financial Assets, 1931 to 1954 |
| 5 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Company newletters and articles about the company, 1950 to 1955 |
| 6 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Miscellaneous Correspondence and reports, 1916 to 1939 |
| 7 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, United States v. The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: subpoenas, Petitions, and Answers, 1931 to 1932 |
| 8 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, United States v.The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: correspondence and reports regarding consignments, 1931 to 1932 |
| 9 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, United States v. The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: financial statements, 1931 to 1932 |
| 10 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, United States v. The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: correspondence and reports regarding freight charges, 1930 to 1932 |
| 11 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, Unites States v. The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: correspondence and reports regarding pricing, 1931 to 1932 |
| 12 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, United States v. The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: correspondence and data on the cost of raw materials, 1931 to 1932 |
| 13 | | Imperial Sugar Company: Legal Suit, United States v. The Sugar Institute, Inc., and Imperial Sugar Company: correspondence and reports regarding refined sugar deliveries, 1931 to 1932 |
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| 8 | 1 | | Sugarland Feed Company: Financial Records, 1915 to 1917 |
| 2 | | Sugarland Industries: Deed of Trust, contracts, correspondence, 1918 to 1922 |
| 3 | | Sugarland Manufacturing Company: reports, 1916 |
| 4 | | Financial Statements: Imperial Sugar Company, Imperial Bank and Trust Company, Imperial Mercantile Company, Sugarland Industries, Sugarland Manufacturing Company, Sealy Mattress Company, 1916 to 1921 |
| 5 | | Sugar Shipment Rates, 1928 to 1933 |
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