Indusco Inc. records, 1938-1985
Indusco Inc. records, 1938-1985
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0644
- Bib ID:
- 4079544 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Indusco, Inc.
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 93 linear feet (180 boxes, 30 oversize folders in 14 flat boxes, 2 card file boxes, 1 glass slide box)
- Language(s):
- English , Chinese .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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The following boxes are located off-site: 2-181. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
One box of cataloged correspondence, one wooden box of glass sides, and oversize materials (Flat boxes 539-552) are located on-site.
Description
Summary
This collection includes records from the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC, 工業合作社/工业合作社), China Aid Council (CAC, 美國援華會/美国援华会), and United Service to China (USC, formerly United Relief to China/URC, 美國援華聯合會/美国援华联合会/美國援華救濟聯合會/美国援华救济联合会). The records contain correspondence of individuals who participated in the cooperative and those associated with it; typewritten reports of sub-units to the parent organization; periodicals and other publications issued in Chinese by the three regional headquarters (the early ones are probably quite rare); publications in English by these headquarters and by American committees formed to aid in the movement; mounted photographs showing the work of the cooperatives and their leaders; albums of newspaper clippings on the movement, emanating from the U.S. and abroad; maps showing locations of cooperatives; pencil sketches and watercolors of cooperatives at work; and other material concerning this important organization which was largely responsible for China's ability to feed and clothe, and care for the people during the war.
1985 ADDITION: Correspondence, memos, and printed materials of Hugh Deane, including files on the revival of the CIC in the 1980s.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The following boxes are located off-site: 2-181. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
One box of cataloged correspondence, one wooden box of glass sides, and oversize materials (Flat boxes 539-552) are located on-site.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Indusco, Inc. records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Materials
United China Relief Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
United Service to China Records, MC135, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Custodial History
Transferred from the East Asian Library, 1966, 1981 (negative files), & 1983 (slides).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Pruitt, Ida. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1952. Accession number--M-1952.
Gift of Ida Pruitt, 1952-1956, 1974.
Gift of Hugh Deane, 1985.
Elizabeth Schiffman Files: gift of Dr. Jessica Schiffman
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Processed BRC 02/--/1985.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 xml document instance created by Carrie Hintz
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Biographical / Historical
The Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (also known as the CIC, Gung-Ho, Indusco, Inc.; pinyin: Gongye Hezuoshe, Gonghe; Chinese: 中國工業合作協會/工業合作社/中国工业合作协会/工业合作社/工合) was a movement established in China by a group of westerners and Chinese activists, and was supported by Chinese citizens and politicians at the time to aid in industrial production during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). The CIC had three main headquarters (in northwest, southwest, and southeast China) to form the basis for small cooperative industries throughout the country, which in 1946 numbered 1,700 but which in 1948 had decreased to fewer than 500.
Subject Headings
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Cataloged Correspondence
These files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. To request cataloged correspondence, request the files by name of the correspondent.
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Series I: Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC), 1938-1947
Box 1
Box 2
Box 2
Box 3
(See also I.A.3, I.A.4, I.B.I Bailie Schools--Shantan)
Box 3
1938-1942 June , 21 folders
Box 4
1942 July -1943, 20 folders
Box 5
1944, 12 folders
Box 6
1945, 13 folders
Box 7
1946, 12 folders
Box 8
1947, 12 folders
Box 9
1948, 12 folders
Box 10
1949-1954, 13 folders
Box 11
Box 12
Box 13
Box 14
Box 15
Box 16
Box 17
Box 18
Box 19
Box 20
Box 21
Box 22
(See also: I.A.3, I.A.3, II.A.1)
Box 23
Box 23
1939
Box 24
1940-1942
Box 25
1942-1944
Box 26
1945-1947
Box 27
Box 28
(See also I.A.3)
Box 28
1939-1943
Box 29
1944-1945
Box 30
1946-1952
Box 30
Box 31
Box 32
Box 33
Box 34
Box 35
(pamphlets arranges alphabetically by author. See also V no 1)
Box 36
Box 36
Box 37
Box 38
Box 39
(for George Hogg, see also I.A.1)
Box 39
Box 40
Box 40
(see alsoI.A.1)
Box 41
Box 42
Box 43
Box 44
Box 45
Box 46
Box 47
Box 47
Box 48
Box 49
Box 49
Box 50
Box 50
Box 51
Box 52
Box 53
Box 54
Box 54
Box 55
Box 56
Box 56
Box 57
Box 58
Box 58
Box 59
Box 60
Box 61
Box 61
Box 61
Box 61
Box 62
Box 62
Box 63
Box 63
Box 63
Box 64
Box 64
Box 65
Box 65
Box 65
Box 65
Box 66
Box 66
Box 67
Box 67
Box 68
Box 69
(for non-CIC serials see I.B.3 Serials)
Box 70
(See also V, no. 2)
Box 71
Box 72
Box 74
Box 74
Box 75
(for publication details see I.B.1 Serials--Hongkong Promotion Committee)
Box 76
Box 77
(see also V nos 4.b and 4.c)
Box 78
Box 78
Box 78
Box 79
Box 80
Box 81
Box 82
(largely of Shantan Bailie School)
Box 83
Box 84
Box 85
Box 85
Box 86
Box 87
Box 87
Box 88
Box 88
Series II: INDUSCO, Inc.: U.S. Materials, 1939-1952
Box 89
Box 90
Box 91
Box 92
Box 93
Box 94
Box 95
Box 96
Box 97
Box 98
1940-1942 September
Box 99
(missing, withdrawn by Indusco Office to make room for later materials)
Box 99
Box 100
Box 101
Box 102
Box 103
Box 104
Box 105
Box 106
1942 October-1944
(section b. is less extensive than section a. due to a reduction in the number of private appeals for contributions made by Indusco following its 1942 contract with United China Relief.)
Box 107
Box 108
Box 109
1945
Box 110
Box 111
Box 112
Box 113
Box 114
1946
Box 114
1950-1952
Box 114
(missing except for miscellaneous files)
Box 114
Box 114
Box 114
Box 115
Box 115
Box 116
Box 117
Box 117
Box 118
Box 119
Box 119
Box 120
Box 121
(See also the President's War relief Control Board, IV.B Finances--Indusco and V. no. 7)
Box 122
1939-1940
Box 123
1941-1944
Box 124
1945-1947
Box 125
1948-1952
Box 121
Box 126
Box 127
Box 128
(see also Publicity--form letters)
Box 129
Box 130
Box 131
Box 131
Box 132
Box 133
Box 134
Box 135
Box 135
Box 136
Box 137
Box 137
Box 138
Box 139
Box 140
Box 140
Box 141
Box 141
Box 142
Box 142
Box 143
Box 143
Box 144
Box 144
Box 145
Box 145
Box 146
Box 147
Box 148
Box 149
Box 149
Box 150
Box 150
Box 151
Box 151
Box 152
Box 153
Box 154
Box 154
(Premier Shipping Co.)
Box 155
Box 155
(A-P)
Box 156
(S-W)
Box 156
Box 157
Box 158
Box 159
Box 160
Box 160
Box 160
Box 160
Series III: China Aid Council (CAC): China Materials, 1938-1947
Box 161
Box 161
Box 161
Box 162
Box 162
Box 162
Box 162
Box 162
Box 163
Box 163
Box 163
Series IV: United China Relief (UCR)/ United Service to China (USC): U.S. Materials, 1940-1950
Box 164
Box 165
Box 166
Box 167
Box 168
Box 168
Box 168
Box 169
Box 169
Box 170
Box 170
Box 170
Box 170
Box 171
Box 171
Box 172
Box 173
Box 173
Box 174
Box 174
Box 175
Series V: Oversized Items
Oversize materials are found in flat boxes 539-552.
Box Flat 539 Folder 5
4 Sets of 4 posters with 12 printed pictures of copperative activities. (See Series I.B.4)
Box Flat 545
(See Series I.B.3)
Box Flat 545
Arranged and listed alphabetically by author. One loose-leaf scrapbook. Include description cards. (See Series I.A.3 and Series I.B.3)
Box Flat 550 Folder 1
(See Series I.B.2)
Box Flat 550 Folder 1
(See Series I.B.2)
Box Flat 550 Folder 2
Mostly from China and Canada (See Series I.B.2)
Box Flat 550 Folder 3
Newspaper and magazine clippings on CIC, 1939-1948 chiefly from the Unites States, also from China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Canada, and Mexico. (See Series I.B.2)
Box Flat 551
Newspaper and magazine clippings on CIC, 1939-1948 chiefly from the Unites States, also from China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Canada, and Mexico. (See Series I.B.2)
Box Flat 548 Folder 1
Product labels for for bandage, knitting needles, batteries, socks, cigarettes, cottons, soaps, candles. (See Series I.B.3)
(See Series I.A.3 and Series I.B.3)
Box Flat 548 Folder 2
Box Flat 548 Folder 2
Box Flat 548 Folder 2
Box Flat 548 Folder 2
Box Flat 548 Folder 2
(See Series I.A.3 and Series I.B.3)
Box Flat 548 Folder 7
(See Series I.B.2)
Box Flat 548 Folder 3
Rehoused from oversize scrapbook (See Series I.B.4)
Box Flat 548 Folder 4
(See Series I.B.4) with exhibition caption cards, removed from mounted backing.
Box Flat 548 Folder 5
(See Series I.B.4)
Box Flat 548 Folder 6
(See Series I.B.4) Also include 1 note written by a Bailie School student; 1 mounted description: Teen-age and peasant boys learn to rebuild China's smashed industries through schools run by the CIC. After two years' schooling boys who were almost illiterate can make blueprints, set up and repair machines, organize a cooperative and conduct all the necessary business details. The schools, run on completely cooperative-democratic system, are named after Joseph Bailie, an American missionary who worked for the industrialization of China.
Box Flat 539 Folder 3
(See Series I.B.3)
Box Flat 539 Folder 4
(See Series I.B.3)
Box Flat 539 Folder 6
Box Flat 552
(See Series I.B.3) Photographs include people and activities of the CIC in various regions such as Lanzhou, Yen'an, Sichuan, etc. Some of photos were removed from their original scrapbook pages and rehoused in folders for better preservation purpose.
Box Flat 552
(See Series I.B.3) Some of the photos were removed from their original scrapbook pages and rehoused in folders for better preservation purpose.
(See Series I.B.4)
Box Flat 546
Box Flat 547
Box Flat 543 Folder 1
Box Flat 543 Folder 1
Box Flat 543 Folder 1
Box Flat 543 Folder 2
Box Flat 543 Folder 2
Box Flat 543 Folder 2
Box Flat 543 Folder 3
Box Flat 543 Folder 3
Box Flat 543 Folder 4-5
with duplicate captions cards; pictures of Chinese households, furnishing, customs, temple architecture, construction, Chinese building interior and exterior of the Gust Hall (#4-40)
Box Flat 542 Folder 1
Printed by Truman Co. at 33 East 29th Street. 1. Charles Fenn, report for Scoop magazine brought the medical supplies from Hong Kong. She checks the papers with Dr. Tong, CIC medical worker. 2. This old Ahung (Mohammedan priest) does the skilled piecing together of furs. 3. Water power at Shuangshihpu for CIC electric light and power plant. 4. Kweilin is the southern headquarters for the CIC. It is an important center for front-line work. 5. Sheep in Gansu. 6. After being cleaned and carded, the wool is stored here until ready for use. 7. Army men have called for woolen army blankets made by the CIC in the Northwest. 8. These villagers use the ancient hand-twist method of spinning. A weight pulls the wool through the fingers. You can sometimes see a man walking and spinning at the same time. 9. Raw wool is cleaned for carded in this wool storage depot run by a CIC experimental bureau. 10. Local spinners and weavers of the CIC keep the front-line fighter warm. National defense posters like this are posted along the streets. 11. All members of the family wear wool yarn, says this CIC poster. 12. Kweilin has been bombed mercilessly by the Japanese, but the CIC workshops keep producing. 13. A women's cooperative at Lanchow. 14. YWCA sponsored this umbrella making cooperative in Kweiyang. 15. This Scihlipu women's cooperative makes towels and cloth from the dyed yarns drying. Textiles are one of China's most urgent needs. 16. A truck bearing desperately needed medical supplies pulls up in front of the Paochi industrial cooperative transport headquarters. 17. Cave entrances to typical loess homes and workshops of refugees. Many cooperatives are housed in caves like these. 18. A camouflaged water-power carding machine invented by engineers of the CIC. 19. Young women are taught the techniques of weaving in training schools run by the CIC. 20. The older women in front sort raw wool for the spinners. In the background women knit the spun wool into sweaters and scarves for the army. 21. Young women practice weaving on these looms before joining the CIC. 22. A deserted temple is used by the CIC as a center for the manufacture of soldier' padded uniforms.
Box Flat 542 Folder 3
Set of thirteen original display posters, each bearing a textile sample, photographs, and captions, representing the different stages of blanket production from wool selection and processing through the collection of the finished product by the army (See Series I.B.4).
Box Flat 540 Folder 1
Box Flat 540 Folder 1
Caption: Illustrating how hand labor resists the introduction of modern machinery. In China the saw cuts on the up stroke and not on the down stroke as with other saws. Photo lent by Mr. W.B. Parsons.
Box Flat 540 Folder 1
Caption: The blindfolded donkey grinding a meal for the family in a stome mill. Note the "Peking Carts" in the background, and the walls of the enclosure to protect from thieves and otherwise give security. Photograph by the courtesy of Dr. John Reisner of the Nanking University, College of Agriculture and Forestry.
Box Flat 540 Folder 1
Caption: The Chinese people have come to realize that it is to their great advantage and profit to develop their wealth of mineral resources. China's coal deposits are dufficient to supply the world's needs at the present rate of consumption of 1,000,000,000 tons a year.
Box Flat 540 Folder 2
Box Flat 540 Folder 3
Captions: 1. A whole village street joins the CIC and sew uniforms for the Chinese army, 萬縣工業合作承製軍棉大衣聯合工廠車工部; 2. Winter uniforms for the northern armies are padded with cotton by these members of the CIC; 3. The CIC produce textiles to cloth our men at the front is the theme of this wall drawing on a village wall; 4. A graduate of a Bailie School points out the fine texture of the cotton cloth made by his cooperative. Bailie Schools are set up by the CIC to train young men to become skilled workers; 5. Two members of the CIC reel wool yarn for army blankets; 6. Umbrella-making cooperative in southeast China, sponsored by the YWCA and the CIC; 7. Young men training to become organizers of the CIC relax in their cooperatively-run dormitory; 8. Hundreds of refugees form bombed areas are given emergency employment by the CIC, 萬縣工業合作承製軍棉大衣聯合工廠彈花部. These refugees are carding cotton. 9. Only the most essential parts of this textile machine are made of scarce metal. The man on the left is the Chairman of the textile machine cooperative; 10. Two members of the CIC sort raw wool while the women in the background knit the spun yarn into army clothing. The mats in the rear are made from waste wool.
Box Flat 540 Folder 4
The circulating library delivers by hand-cart. Notice the bell below the cart. Yunnan.
(See Series II.B Finances)
Arranged in original order: sorted in descending order by date
Box Flat 540
1943 April-December
Box Flat 540
1942 September-1943 March
Box Flat 541
1942 April-August
Box Flat 541
1941 September-1942 March
Box Flat 541
1941 May-August
Box Flat 541
1941 January-April
Box Flat 541
1941 November 28-December 31
Also includes Shantan Bailie School student art work
Box Flat 544 Folder 1
Box Flat 544 Folder 1
Box Flat 544 Folder 2
Box Flat 544 Folder 3
Box Flat 544 Folder 3
Box Flat 549 Folder 1
Box Flat 549 Folder 1
Created in the Huangfeng Cave of Shuangshipu, Shaanxi (繪於陝西雙石舖黃風洞)
Box Flat 549 Folder 2-3
Original brush-and-ink drawings by Jack Chen, son of one of China's former Foreign Ministers, produced to resist Japanese aggression, support CIC. These drawings were first reproduced in The China Weekly Review and later appeared in two booklet editions published in Hong Kong and New York.
Box Flat 539 Folder 1
工合研究出版; Fu Shuda 傅叔達著; 本書編華西大學博物館; Oversized design books for textiles, produced and published by the CIG Institute, Chengtu, 1944. See Series I.B.I Institute for GIG, Textiles.
Box Flat 539 Folder 2
工合研究出版; Fu Shuda 傅叔達著; 本書編華西大學博物館; Oversized design books for textiles, produced and published by the CIG Institute, Chengtu, 1944. See Series I.B.I Institute for GIG, Textiles.
Box Flat 542 Folder 2
By Tai Cheng Yih, at Wenjiagou, 闻家溝. Making Baohejiu, 一個做明流子酒者(即包榖酒)
Box Flat 542 Folder 2
By Tai Cheng Yih (戴成義). More men than women weaving in the two counties; created at Feng's house in the village under a tight cliff. 在兩當縣織布的男子多於女子; 繪於緊崖低下村馮姓屋內.
Box Flat 542 Folder 2
Drawn by [?庸] 1. 西北為產羊之區; 2. 毛剪; 3. 毛運; 4. 毛彈; 5. 紡線; 7. 導緯; 8. 導經; 9. 織製軍毯; 10. 染色; 11. 整理.
Series VI: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Other Files
Box 176
Box 177
(includes files on revival of CIC in 1980s)
Series VII: Photographs and Slides
Box 178
(commentary for the slide show available in the repository)
Box 179
(commentary for the slide show available in the repository)
Series VIII: Elizabeth Schiffman Files
Box 180
Box 180
Box 180
Box 181
Box 181
Box 181
(Primarily material related to the Publicity Committee, including reports, memos, and correspondence)
Box 181
Series IX: Archived Websites, 2024-present