The Francelia Butler Collection on the Ruskin Co-operative Association (MS.1014)

Description

This collection documents the Ruskin Co-operative Association, which was active from 1893 to 1899 in Ruskin, Tennessee and from 1899 to 1901 in Ruskin, Georgia. Among these materials are published records, documents, photographs, newspapers (which discuss the economic depression of the 1890s that induced people to join the Commune), and published articles.

Items in the The Francelia Butler Collection on the Ruskin Co-operative Association (MS.1014) Collection

Indiana newspaperman Julius Augustus Wayland inaugurated the idea for the Ruskin Cooperative Association in 1881. His dream was realized in 1894 when the Ruskin Cooperative Association (named after English social critic John Ruskin) was established…