World War Two Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1949; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Series 12
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Documents the United States government's coffee rationing and wartime packaging requirements.  The United States War Production Board issued regulations designed to control the use of metals during this period which greatly affected the coffee industry. These materials reflect the impact of rationing and regulations on the coffee industry and Hills Bros. in particular. The company's response to these measures is documented among these materials. The series is arranged into six subseries: Subseries 12.1, Production and quotas, Subseries 12.2, Rationing, Subseries 12.3, Containers and closures, Subseries 12.4, Appeals, Subseries 12.5, Advertising campaigns, and Subseries 12.6, Machinists strike scrapbooks.