HAMMOND ORGAN COMPANY COLLECTION, 1930s-1970s

Storage: Box Lot (3 boxes, 8 x 10 in.; 1 box, 11 x 14 in.)

Negatives (1 folder NN0040)

Transparencies (1 folder T0021; 1 box (11 x 14 in.) T0022

Color Photoprints (1 folder CP0025)

Broadsides-H1-Music & Musical Instruments (10 posters)

Accession Number: G1986.254

Description of the Collection

Summary: Visual materials relating to the Hammond Organ Co.

(incorporated in 1928) and its founder, Laurens Hammond's,

inventions. Subjects include portraits of Hammond, various views of

construction of organs, and many different models of organs. Of

interest is a self shuffling bridge table invented by Hammond and

displayed at the 1933 Chicago world's fair.

Container List

Box 1

1 Laurens Hammond

2 Laurens Hammond

3 Hammond Co. staff

4 Hammond Co. buildings

5 Hammond organs used in movies

6 Hammond organs and personalities

7 Hammond organs and personalities-Milt Herth

8 Hammond organ models used in advertising

9 Organs - Model A

10 Organs - Model B

11 Organs - Model C

12 Organs - Model D

13 Organs - Model E

14 Organs - Model E143

15 Organs - Model F

16 Organs - Model F (sep. color stereo transparencies)

17 Organs - Model G, H

18 Organs - Model J

19 Organs - Model K

Box 2

1 Organs - Model L

2 Organs - Model M (sep. color stereo transparencies)

3 Organs - Model N

4 Organs - Model R

5 Organs - Model T

6 Organs - Model S - construction

7 Organs - Model S - demonstration

8 Organs - Model S

9 Organs - Model V

10 Organs - Model X

11 Organs - Series 125-1282

12 Organs - Series 2022-2312

13 Organs - Series 3022-3227

14 Organs - Series 4043-4072

15 Organs - Series 5000

16 Organs - Series 7000

17 Organs - Series 8000

18 Organs - Series 9000

Box 2

19 Organs - Series 10,000

20 Organs - Series 11,000

21 Organs - Series 13,000

22 Organs - Series 14,000

23 Organs - Series 16,000

24 Organs - Series 121,000

25 Organs - Series 122,000

26 Organs - Series 123,000

27 Organs - Series 124,000

28 Organs - Series 125,000

29 Organs - Series 126,000

30 Organs - Series 127,000

Box 3

1 Organs - Series 128,000

2 Organs - Series 220,000

3 Organs - Series 230,000

4 Organs - Series 320,000

5 Organs - Series 333,000

6 Organs - Series 340,000

7 Organs - Series 800,000

8 Organs - Aurora Classic, Conn Caprice, Dagmar

9 Organs - Everett

10 Organs - Gamma, "GI"

11 Organs - Piper, Porta-B

12 Organs - Sounder, Synthesizer

13 Organs - accessories

14 Organs - electronic components

15 Organs - speaker boxes

16 Organs - tone cabinet

17 Organ tuner

18 Organs - unidentified model

19 Organs in room settings

20 Organs - subassemblies

21 Pianos - Hammond

22 Miscellaneous

23 Hammond self-shuffling bridge table

24 Songbooks

25 Tone cabinets

26 Hammond electric organ & Western Union demonstration

Box 4

1 Technical description of Reverberation Kits, 1959

2 Organs - Model A

3 Organ Service Men's Center, Chicago, 1942

4 Organ models

5 Advertisements (self standing on cardboard)

6 50th Anniversary logo

7 Advertisement