Coffee and Tea Trade
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records / Series 5: Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900s-1947; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Subseries 5.12
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contain photographic prints and negatives relating primarily to the cultivation, growth, and processing of green coffee. A number of these images document women laborers from Guatemala and El Salvador examining, hand picking and sorting coffee beans.  The photographs were created to illustrate the production process in the 1930s. A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Brown on a coffee buying trip in the 1900s is also included among the materials. There are photographs of coffee mills and Hills Bros. Company's participation in food shows. In addition, there are some images relating to the tea trade, including the loading of tea in Asia. Materials are arranged in chronological order.