MS-057

MS-57

 

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

 

DATE

INFORMATION

1895

Clarence Charles (C.C.) Hobart brings his electric generator business to

 

Troy from Middletown.

20 July 1897

The Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company is incorporated.

1903

Hobart motors are sold to merchants, who, with the help of Hobart repre-

 

sentatives, belted them to the large flywheels of hand-operated

 

coffee mills, producing the first self-contained powered coffee mills.

1905

C.C. Hobart resigns as president and a group of Troy businessmen

 

acquire his stock.  The group included A.G. Stouder, E.E. Edgar, and

 

W.E. Bowyer, who along with Herbert Johnston and John M. Spence

 

(who joined the company in 1905) constituted the board that would

 

direct the company for more than a quarter century.

1906

Model 212 Peanut Butter Machine enters the market; The Food and Drug

 

Act is signed into law.

1910

Hobart holds its first sales convention in Troy.  Hobart also opens its

 

first Canadian office in Toronto, and first overseas office in London.

1913

The company reorganizes as The Hobart Manufacturing Company; sales

 

for the year surpass the $1 million mark.

1916

First self-service store, Piggly Wiggly, opens in Memphis and introduces

 

the modern supermarket complex.

1918

To support the war effort, Hobart manufactures shell parts, parts for

 

gun carriages, and electrical equipment for airplanes.

1919

The National Restaurant Association is founded in Chicago; the first

 

trade show is held in New York.

1921

The world's first hamburger franchise, White Castle, opens its doors.

1926

Hobart purchases The Crescent Washine Machine Company, enters the

 

commercial warewashing business; J. Frank Grimes forms the Inde-

 

pendent Grocers Alliance (IGA) with 60 New York stores.

1927

Hobart acquires Paul Navarre of Fils, Europe's leading commercial

 

warewashing manufacturer.

1928

The Hobart Model 6030, the first commercially successful potato peeler

 

design, is introduced.

1933

Hobart introduces an air whip for preparing whipped or creamed

 

toppings for baked goods.

1934

The company acquires the Dayton Scale Division of International

 

Business Machines.

1942-45

Hobart supplies the war effort with high precision instruments and

 

ordinance items such as telescope mounts and fire coated generators.

 

For its manufacturing achievements, Hobart received the five Army-

 

Navy E Awards for excellence in production.

1948

Hobart acquires Federal Engineering, adding its Steakmaster tenderizer

 

line; Hobart builds new Canadian plant in Toronto; Hobart purchases

 

the Frendor Engineering Company in Barnstaple, England.

1959

U.S.S. Nautilus celebrates transpolar Arctic expedition by mixing a North

 

Pole cake with a Hobart 20 quarter mixer.

1960

Ronald Adams, described as the greatest wedding cake artist in the

 

world, uses Hobart mixers to prepare the wedding cake for Princess Margaret.

1960

Hobart conducts its first sales training school.

1964

Hobart is first listed on the New York Stock exchange; Hobart purchases

 

Corley-Miller, adding wrapping systems to its offerings.

1966

The company introduces Hobart disposers.

1969

The Troy world headquarters building is dedicated with Hobart now

 

having 20 major commercial product lines, 32 manufacturing operations,

 

and customers in more than 100 countries; Hobart acquires Koch

 

Refrigeration of Kansas City, Mo.; Hobart acquires steam cooker manu-

 

facturer Vischer Products of Chicago.

1972

Hobart acquires Wascon Systems of Hatboro, Pa., a waste equipment

 

manufacturer.

1973

Hobart pioneers use of universal product symbols that would later

 

become the current UPC system.

1974

Hobart Manufacturing Co. becomes the Hobart Corporation; the first

 

electronic scanner checkout is used at Marsh Supermarket in Troy.

1980

The company purchases the commercial cooking equipment division of

 

General Electric in Chicago, adding under the Hobart label convection

 

ovens and other cooking equipment.

1981

Hobart becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dart & Kraft Inc.

1986

Hobart becomes a part of the new Premark International Inc.; formed

 

in a spin-off from Dart & Kraft Inc.; Hobart divests the KitchenAid

 

Division, selling it to Whirlpool Corporation; Vulcan-Hart is purchased.

1989

Adamatic, a manufacturer of turnkey bakery packages, is acquired;

 

Hobart food processors are introduced.

1991

A 1919 C-210 Mixer, belonging to Andre Soucy of Von Hatten's Bakery,

 

Fort Smith, Ark., wins the Oldest Running Hobart Mixer contest.

1996

Hobart reorganizes along market segment lines, forming Food Service

 

Division and Food Retail Devision.

1997

Hobart introduces TCP/IP and Ethernet 10base compatability, making its

 

scale networking products compatible with retailer's existing computer

 

systems.

1997

July 20 marks the Hobart Corporation's 100th Anniversary!