San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1986; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials provide background information and an almost daily photographic account of the construction of the bridge.  This documentation was the result of Leslie Hills' suggestion to place a camera mount on the parapet of the company building at the beginning of the construction.  From this position company photographer Ken P. Allen captured on film the progress until its completion in 1936.  The State Bridge Authority produced a movie in 1940 using the Hills Bros. materials. The series is arranged in two subseries: Subseries one is the textual records that provide background information on the construction of the bridge.  Subseries two is the photographic materials documenting the construction.