Historical Albums
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 4: Advertising Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1911-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Subseries 4.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contain scrapbooks created by the company which provide an overview and rich resource of visual materials arranged in chronological order.  The earlier volumes were created by one of the Hills brothers then later by other employees.  The albums contain a variety of materials such as paperboard boxes, pamphlets, metal cans, newspaper clippings, photographs, printed advertisements, streetcar advertisements, and labels. These albums present several preservation concerns. Many of the materials in the albums are partially loose or detached from the scrapbook pages.  Some of the oversized items are folded to fit inside the scrapbooks and show signs of deterioration. The size of the volumes makes it extremely difficult to handle and transport them and structurally the volumes could not support the contents. Based on the assumption that these volumes are valuable research tools, the recommendation was to disassemble the scrapbooks. Still maintaining the original order of the volumes, the pages were numbered, and only fifty pages were housed per box.  Loose materials were sleeved and kept in order.  Most of the materials in these scrapbooks can be found in other parts of the collection.