Inventor Name
Hammond Organ Company
Repository
Chicago Historical Society
Clark St. at North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-6071
312-642-4600
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/archives.html
Physical Description
65 record cartons
Summary
Corporate records relating to Mr. Laurens Hammond (1895-1973) and the company he founded, which was known as the Hammond Clock Company (1928-1937), the Hammond Instrument Company (1937-1953), and finally the Hammond Organ Company (1953-1986). Correspondence, reports, minutes, manufacturing drawings, patents, budgets, and other operating records of the company that founded the industry of small electric organs and helped to popularize organ music for home and small institutional venues.
Finding Aid
http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-H/HamOrg-inv.htm