The Historical Archives is the Exchanges’ collection of documents, books, artifacts, and photographs that records important events in both cotton’s and the Exchange’s history. The Memphis Cotton Exchange Historical Archives (MCEArchives) is the official division of the Exchange that preserves and maintains these materials.
Together with the Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange, MCEArchives has collected one of the nation’s most extensive agricultural historical collections.
Current Projects:
• publishng a book compiled of the complete history of the Exchange and cotton in the Memphis region
• forming a cotton related scholarship;
• maintaining the Memphis Cotton Exchange Building Lobby Exhibit (under the “Hall of Fame” )
Whether or not you realize it, you probably have an archive in your home. It might be in a filing cabinet in your study, a box in the basement, a chest in the attic. It is your personal archives: a collection of material that records important events from your family’s history.
Both a family’s archives and the MCEArchives:
• save items to serve as proof that an event occurred;
• explain how something happened, whether for personal, financial, or sentimental reasons;
• may be located in more than one place.
If you would like a copy of "Memphis Cotton Exchange...one hundred years" by Janie V. Paine, the current official history of the Exchange, send a check made out to Memphis Cotton Exchange for five dollars to Historical Archives, Memphis Cotton Exchange P. O. Box 3150. Memphis, TN 38173. (Members may call Tonda Walker, Member Services, for information about waiver.)
Zack Tucker, Historian
Memphis Cotton Exchange Historical Archives
