Grocery Store Displays
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: circa 1901 1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Subseries 5.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains images created by company photographer, Ken Allen to document Hills Bros. coffee displays around the country.  Some of the photographs were used in broadsides entitled "Interesting Grocery Stores" and "Before and After."  The broadsides were created from 1928-1933, with the retail grocer as the target audience. Photographs are identified by the name of the store and location.  Most of the prints have negatives and correspondence granting Hills Bros. permission to publish the photographs. Materials are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the grocery store.