Accounting and Financial Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903-1960; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Series 8
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content: Archival materials
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content: Comprises some of the earliest materials from the company that were not destroyed in the 1906 fire and documents the sale of other products such as tea. There is a distributor's notebook dating from 1903-1904 with a 1925 letter inside the volume.  Record books dating from 1904 provide information relating to coffee stock distribution, and tea distribution and pricing. Coffee acquisition ledgers dating from 1906-1917 are grouped according to the kind of coffee bean and state the general region or seaport from which the beans originate, including Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala.  There is one exception, which is listed by stock number and contains mixed-kind categories.  The ledgers provide stock numbers, mark, quantity, location of coffee bean purchases, date of purchases, costs, and grades.  Entries are not consistently in chronological order. There are also ledgers maintained by the company that record information relating to retail grocers and how much they purchased from the company, including product types, prices, and quantities. Analysis of expense account records date from 1917-1921. A tea acquisition ledger dating from 1920-1923 is divided into groups including, natural leaf, Darjeeling, Ceylon, Java, and Oolong.  Information about stock numbers, mark, quantities, invoice weight, house weight, and where the tea was purchased can be obtained through these records. In addition, there are financial statements dating from 1959-1960 and an undated coffee stock book.  Materials are arranged in chronological order.