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Histarch,
Because of the limited quantity on hand, a FREE field guide that provides
chronological identification for 15 different Hills Bros coffee can types
is available to practicing field archaeologists. At this time we can only
offer 1 copy per individual request, to ensure that the supply is
distributed to the widest possible audience. Please forward this message to
other interested parties that qualify.
The Hills Bros. Coffee company was established in San Francisco,
California in 1878, and produced the first vacuum packed coffee
available on the market in 1900. Through time, the lithographic images
and information on Hills Bros. cans changed in subtle yet distinctive
ways, which were first discussed and illustrated in T. Carroll Wilson’s
"A Background Story of Hills Bros. Coffee" (1967). This present field
guide further refines the chronological attributes identified in these
cans’ lithographic panels. We decided the easiest way to provide this
data was to produce images of the entire lithography of each unique can
type produced between 1900 and 1963, which spans from the first year
that a Hills Bros. coffee tin can was produced to an arbitrarily
selected end date associated with numerous technological changes in the
cans’ manufacture. The images in this field guide are meant to be
compared to cans found at sites in the field, in order to help date a
site’s occupation history. The guide is pocket sized, and produced on
rite-in-the-rain paper to last longer in a field setting. What is gained
is immediate information that can be used by the field archaeologist.
Also, cans may then be left in the field rather than brought back to a
lab and expensively curated and stored.
If you are intersted in receiving one, please reply back TO US (e-mail
addresses, below), NOT HISTARCH, with:
Name
Phone Number
Mailing Address
Best,
Robin
Robin O. Mills & Steve Lanford
Archaeologists - Eastern Interior Field Office
BLM-Fairbanks District Office
1150 University Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
907-474-2359
907-474-2282 (fax)
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