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THE HOBART COLLECTION
INTRODUCTION
The Hobart Collection was processed and added to the Flesh Public Library Archives in January, 2000. It fills 16 Hollinger boxes and 110 file folders. There are no known restrictions on the use of this collection.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The Hobart Collection is divided into seven series. Series I included bound editions of the Hobartizer from January 1916 to December 1945, and January 1947 to December 1973. Series II is the bound company annual reports from 1926 to 1968, and 1964, 1965, and 1967 to 1976. Series III includes photographs and line art the majority of which relate to editions of the Hobartizer. Series IV are Hobart catalogs for the General Line. Series V is divided into various product’s advertising materials. Series VI consists of materials related to Dayton Scale, and Series VII includes general information like company history, testimonials, and background material.
HISTORY
In 1897 C.C. Hobart and Herbert I. Johnston formed the Hobart Electrical Manufacturing Company in Troy, Ohio for the purpose of the manufacture and sale of electrical machines and supplies. By 1903, the owners decided to specialize in developing electrical motors for time-consuming manual jobs, specifically coffee grinding, and eventually many other types of food processing equipment.
By 1910, there were overseas sales offices in Great Britain and Canada. In March 1913, the company’s name was changed to the Hobart Manufacturing Company. Sales expanded to Australia, South America, and South Africa. 1915 saw the introduction of the commercial electric mixer, and in 1919, the Kitchen Aid, a household electric mixer, debuted.
Expansion into new areas of production included the acquisition of Crescent Washing Machine Company in 1926, and in 1934, the Dayton Scale Division of IBM became part of Hobart.
Container Listing
SERIES I Hobartizer
Box 1
File
1 Hobartizer 1924 (loose)
2 Hobartizer British Ed. (binder)
August 1922-December 1924
3 Hobartizer (binder)
January 1950-December 1952 (dup.)
Box 2
File
4 Hobartizer –bound
January 1916-December 1918
5 Hobartizer –bound
January 1919-December 1922
6 Hobartizer –bound
January 1923-December 1926
Box 3
File
7 Hobartizer –bound
January 1938-December 1939
8 Hobartizer –bound
January 1940-December 1942
9 Hobartizer -bound
January 1943-December 1945
Box 4
File
10 Hobartizer -bound
January 1947-December 1949
11 Hobartizer -bound
January 1950-December 1953
12 Hobartizer -bound
January 1954-December 1957
Box 5
File
13 Hobartizer -bound
January 1958-December 1962
14 Hobartizer -bound
January 1963-December 1967
15 Hobartizer -bound
January 1968-December 1973
SERIES II COMPANY REPORTS
BOX 6
File
16 Annual Reports 1926-1943
17 Annual Reports 1939-1946
18 Annual Reports 1939-1946 (dup.)
BOX 7
File
19 Annual Reports 1947-1958
20 Annual Reports 1959-1968
21 Annual Reports 1964, 1965, 1967-1976 (loose)
SERIES III PHOTOGRAPHS (large)
BOX 8
File
22 negatives, photo 5/21/45 –Hobart baseball opener
23 Hobart Sales Convention -1911
24 Compagnie Internationale Hobart
25 Ernie Walker, California Sales -1926
26 London plant -1954
27 Dayton Scale Div. -1948
28 Troy Sunshade -1967
29 Promotional drawings
30 New plants & facilities in U.S.A.
31 Various aerials -1967
32 Interiors -1928
33 shop exterior, Kingston, N.Y. -1929
34 Miscellaneous
BOX 9
File
35 Miscellaneous line art
36 Line Art choppers/slicers
37 Line Art –coffee grinders
38 Line Art –scales
39 Line Art –dishwashing
40 Product displays
41 International
42 Machines in use
43 Office interiors
44 Factory interior
45 Trade Shows
46 Display room interiors
47 Negatives –beaters & bowls
48 Sales School -4/17/61
SERIES III PHOTOGRAPHS (large)
Box 9
File
49 Negatives 4722 Chopper
50 Negative aerial -11/5/71
51 Negatives –Stouder Memorial Hospital –west addition -7/20/60
52 From Hobartizer –April 1933
53 Swampscott Division Managers Conference –September 1940
54 Hololulu, Hawaii –December 1926
55 Miscellaneous
SERIES IV CATALOGS
Box 10
File
56 General formation
57 General line catalog
58 Kitchen Machines -1950
59 Price Lists -1923, 1926, 1927, 1928
60 General Line Catalog -1986
61 Catalog #1108
62 General Line Catalog -1933
63 Grocer’s edition
64 Attachments Manual
65 General Line Catalog -1930
66 Catalog #4118
67 General Line Catalog -1930’s
68 General Line Catalogs
69 General Line Catalog -1936
70 Sales Manual -1934
SERIES V ADVERTISING MATERIALS
Box 11
File
71 Food Cutters
72 Meat Slicers
73 Meat Choppers
74 Mixers
74a Mixers
Box 12
File
75 Coffee Mills Catalog -#9218
76 Coffee Grinder
77 Marketing Coffee Service
78 Marketing for Coffee Service Scrapbook
79 Candy Machine
80 Dishwashers (Crescent)
81 Peanut Butter Machine
82 Cream Whipper
83 Miscellaneous
SERIES V ADVERTISING MATERIALS
Box 13 (Oversized)
File
84 Electrical Food Preparing equipment bound promotional drawings
85 “The Hobart Food Cutter” sample food book
86 Ad. Panels for Hobart Black Beauty Coffee Mill
86a Potato Peeler
SERIES VI DAYTON SCALE
Box 14
File
87 Set up instructions
88 Product Catalogs, loose
89 Histories
90 Product Catalogs (bound)
91 “Retail Food Scales”
92 Specifications
93 Price Lists -1927, 1913
94 Piece Parts Catalog -1922
95 Advertising
96 Hobart Scale Advertising
SERIES VII GENERAL INFORMATION
Box 15
File
97 Samples of foreign advertising
98 Samples of shares
99 Testimonials
100 Josephine Cochran dishwashing machine
101 “Hobart Wartime Products”
102 Hobart Plant News –December 1966
103 Troy Sunshade Material
Box 16
File
104 1967 articles on Hobart
105 General Histories
106 Sales Calendar -1937
107 Finance Schedule
108 General Price List –Dayton Money weight
109 Price Book for Detroit Automatic Scale
110 Photographs –Crescent Washing Machine
TIMELINE
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INFORMATION |
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1895 |
Clarence Charles (C.C.) Hobart brings his electric generator business to |
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Troy from Middletown. |
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20 July 1897 |
The Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company is incorporated. |
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1903 |
Hobart motors are sold to merchants, who, with the help of Hobart repre- |
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sentatives, belted them to the large flywheels of hand-operated |
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coffee mills, producing the first self-contained powered coffee mills. |
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1905 |
C.C. Hobart resigns as president and a group of Troy businessmen |
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acquire his stock. The group included A.G. Stouder, E.E. Edgar, and |
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W.E. Bowyer, who along with Herbert Johnston and John M. Spence |
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(who joined the company in 1905) constituted the board that would |
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direct the company for more than a quarter century. |
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1906 |
Model 212 Peanut Butter Machine enters the market; The Food and Drug |
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Act is signed into law. |
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1910 |
Hobart holds its first sales convention in Troy. Hobart also opens its |
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first Canadian office in Toronto, and first overseas office in London. |
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1913 |
The company reorganizes as The Hobart Manufacturing Company; sales |
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for the year surpass the $1 million mark. |
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1916 |
First self-service store, Piggly Wiggly, opens in Memphis and introduces |
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the modern supermarket complex. |
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1918 |
To support the war effort, Hobart manufactures shell parts, parts for |
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gun carriages, and electrical equipment for airplanes. |
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1919 |
The National Restaurant Association is founded in Chicago; the first |
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trade show is held in New York. |
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1921 |
The world's first hamburger franchise, White Castle, opens its doors. |
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1926 |
Hobart purchases The Crescent Washine Machine Company, enters the |
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commercial warewashing business; J. Frank Grimes forms the Inde- |
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pendent Grocers Alliance (IGA) with 60 New York stores. |
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1927 |
Hobart acquires Paul Navarre of Fils, Europe's leading commercial |
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warewashing manufacturer. |
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1928 |
The Hobart Model 6030, the first commercially successful potato peeler |
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design, is introduced. |
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1933 |
Hobart introduces an air whip for preparing whipped or creamed |
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toppings for baked goods. |
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1934 |
The company acquires the Dayton Scale Division of International |
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Business Machines. |
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1942-45 |
Hobart supplies the war effort with high precision instruments and |
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ordinance items such as telescope mounts and fire coated generators. |
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For its manufacturing achievements, Hobart received the five Army- |
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Navy E Awards for excellence in production. |
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1948 |
Hobart acquires Federal Engineering, adding its Steakmaster tenderizer |
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line; Hobart builds new Canadian plant in Toronto; Hobart purchases |
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the Frendor Engineering Company in Barnstaple, England. |
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1959 |
U.S.S. Nautilus celebrates transpolar Arctic expedition by mixing a North |
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Pole cake with a Hobart 20 quarter mixer. |
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1960 |
Ronald Adams, described as the greatest wedding cake artist in the |
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world, uses Hobart mixers to prepare the wedding cake for Princess Margaret. |
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1960 |
Hobart conducts its first sales training school. |
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1964 |
Hobart is first listed on the New York Stock exchange; Hobart purchases |
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Corley-Miller, adding wrapping systems to its offerings. |
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1966 |
The company introduces Hobart disposers. |
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1969 |
The Troy world headquarters building is dedicated with Hobart now |
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having 20 major commercial product lines, 32 manufacturing operations, |
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and customers in more than 100 countries; Hobart acquires Koch |
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Refrigeration of Kansas City, Mo.; Hobart acquires steam cooker manu- |
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facturer Vischer Products of Chicago. |
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1972 |
Hobart acquires Wascon Systems of Hatboro, Pa., a waste equipment |
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manufacturer. |
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1973 |
Hobart pioneers use of universal product symbols that would later |
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become the current UPC system. |
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1974 |
Hobart Manufacturing Co. becomes the Hobart Corporation; the first |
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electronic scanner checkout is used at Marsh Supermarket in Troy. |
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1980 |
The company purchases the commercial cooking equipment division of |
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General Electric in Chicago, adding under the Hobart label convection |
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ovens and other cooking equipment. |
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1981 |
Hobart becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dart & Kraft Inc. |
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1986 |
Hobart becomes a part of the new Premark International Inc.; formed |
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in a spin-off from Dart & Kraft Inc.; Hobart divests the KitchenAid |
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Division, selling it to Whirlpool Corporation; Vulcan-Hart is purchased. |
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1989 |
Adamatic, a manufacturer of turnkey bakery packages, is acquired; |
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Hobart food processors are introduced. |
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1991 |
A 1919 C-210 Mixer, belonging to Andre Soucy of Von Hatten's Bakery, |
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Fort Smith, Ark., wins the Oldest Running Hobart Mixer contest. |
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1996 |
Hobart reorganizes along market segment lines, forming Food Service |
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Division and Food Retail Devision. |
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1997 |
Hobart introduces TCP/IP and Ethernet 10base compatability, making its |
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scale networking products compatible with retailer's existing computer |
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systems. |
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1997 |
July 20 marks the Hobart Corporation's 100th Anniversary! |