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A99420-21
Date(s)
- 1956-06-02 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Gold Seal Chinchilla Enterprises annual meeting. Group portrait of members in a lecture hall. Cages of chinchillas can be seen in the back right corner. Raising chinchillas for the lucrative fur coat trade became a fad investment opportunity of the fifties. The Gold Seal co-operative focused on the development of superior pelts by selective breeding. Gold Seal sold breeding stock to members and investors. As soon as a sufficient supply of top grade pelts was available, the group planned to make and market their own garments. (TNT 6/1/1956)
Fur trade--Tacoma; Business enterprises--Tacoma; Gold Seal Chinchilla Enterprises (Tacoma);