ALADDIN INDUSTRIES INC., RECORDS, 1889-2003
#844

(50 CUBIC FEET:  64 DB; 7 (.5) DB; 48 FltB; 30 O/S Fldrs.)

By: Alison L. Oswald, December 2003

Container List

Box

Folder

 
    SERIES 1: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, 1919-1997
    Subseries A: Company Histories and Profiles, ca. 1930s-1995

1

1

Company history—time lines, n.d.
 

2

Company history, ca. 1930s
 

3

Company history, 1946
 

4

Company history, 1950
 

5

Company history, 1954
 

6

Company history, 1958-1959
 

7

Company history, 1963
 

8

Company history, 1966
 

9

Company history, 1968
 

10

Company history, 1972
 

11

Company history, 1973
 

12

Company history, 1977
 

13

Company history, 1980
 

14

Company history, 1981
 

15

Company history, 1983
 

16

Company history, 1986
 

17

Company history, 1988
 

18

Company history, 1989
 

19

Company history, 1995
 

20

Company history, n.d.
 

21

Company history—Aladdin Electronics, 1957
 

22

Company history—Aladdin in Canada , n.d.
 

23

Company history—Stanley Bottle Company, 1989
 

24

Chronology of Thermosware activities, 1989

2

1

Company history—Vacuum bottles, 1957
 

2

Company history—Various products, n.d.
 

3

Company history—Photographs, ca. 1970s
 

4

Company history—40th Anniversary Exhibit, 1988-1989
    Subseries B: Organizational Materials, 1947, 1954, 1964, 1976
 

5

Directors and Officers, 1976
 

6

Organizational Manual, 1954
 

7

War Assets Administration, 1947 
(property purchase)

Industrial and distributive land use survey, 1954

    Subseries C: Correspondence, 1919-1922
 

8

Icy Hot Bottle Company, 1919-1922
 

9

Christmas Cards, 1920, 1964
 

10

Subseries D: Awards, Bronze Award in Design Excellence, 1995
    Subseries E: Articles about Aladdin, 1954-1982
 

11

1954
 

12

1957, 1962-1963, 1970
 

13

1973-1974, 1979, 1982

Box

Folder

 
    SERIES 1: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1919-1997
    Subseries F: Books about Aladdin, 1951-1997

3

1

Aikins, Larry.  Pictorial Price Guide to Metal Lunch Boxes and Thermoses, 1992.
    Aikins, Larry.  Pictorial Price Guide to Vinyl and Plastic Lunch Boxes and Thermoses, 1992.
 

2

Bruce, Scott, The Fifties and Sixties Lunch Box, 1988.
 

3

Bruce, Scott. Official Price Guide to Lunch Box Collectibles, 1989.
 

4

Courter, J.W. Aladdin The Magic Name in Lamps, 1997.
 

5

Goldberg, Martha. The Lunch Box Story, 1951.
 

6

Sexton, Richard.  American Style Classic Product Design from Airtsream to Zippo, 1987.
 

7

Woodall, Allen and Brickell, Scott. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Metal Lunch Boxes, 1992
 

8

Jabber Box News, Official Publication of the International Lunch Box Club, October 1993
    Subseries G: Newspaper Clippings, 1946-1990s

2

74

14

6

1946-1996

Production phases article, 1955

2

15

School lunch kits, ca. 1990s
    Subseries H: Miscellaneous

100

1

The Aladdin Creed

2

16

Facts about Nashville, Tennessee, 1957-1958
 

17

Miscellaneous items, 1929-1993 (not inclusive)

75

1

Empty binder—It’s Not the Magic. It’s Aladdin, n.d.
 

2

Empty binder—Aladdin Vacuum Ware, n.d.

76

1

Empty binder—Aladdin Consumer Products Division, n.d.
 

2

Empty binder—Thermos-Thermoware by Aladdin, n.d.
     
    SERIES 2: VICTOR S. JOHNSON SR. FILES, 1906-1983

11

1

Subseries A: Iowa Soap Company, 1906-1908
    Subseries B: Subject Files, 1912-1983

4

1

Aladdin Industries, Inc.—A-Lad-in-Service, 1943-1945
 

2

Aladdin Industries, Inc.— Alexandria , Indiana , 1937
 

3

Aladdin Manufacturing Company—Muncie, Indiana, 1940-1942
 

4

Aladdin Radio Industries Inc.— Chicago , Illinois
 

5

Aladdin Radio Industries Inc.—Organization, 1943
 

6

Aladino Sociedad Industrial, Buenos Aries, Argentina, 1936-1940
 

7

American Thermos Bottle Company, Norwich, Connecticut, 1938-1942
 

8

American Thermos Bottle Company—James W. Neil, 1936-1937

4

9-12

O/S Fldr. 1

Joseph M. Angeletti, 1934-1940 (lamp shade designs)

J.M. Angeletti drawings, 1938

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Folder  
    SERIES 2: VICTOR S. JOHNSON SR. FILES, 1906-1983
    Subseries B: Subject Files, 1912-1983

4

13

O/S Fldr. 1

Carl Bramming, 1942-1943

Carl Bramming—pint flask vacuum bottle drawings, 1942

4

14

Braumbaugh System—Correspondence, 1916-1920

5

1

H.H. Burtt—Signal Corps and S.V. White, 1941-1942
 

2

Coleman Lamps, 1935
 

3

C.W. Davis, 1928-1943
 

4

Precis, Talk Given at Foremen’s Meeting on “The Duties of a Foremen,” 1934
 

5

General information about glass, n.d.
 

6-8

King v. Weaver, 1916-1918 (correspondence about the case)
 

9-12

Ralph H. Langley, 1936-1942
 

13

Mantle Lamp Company of America —Report Re: Aladdin Lamp, 1939-1942

6

1

Mantle Lamp Company of America —Daylite Company patent infringement, 1919
 

2

Mantle Lamp Company of America vs. United States , 1927
 

3

Mantle Lamp Company of America vs. Ida Bultman, 1926-1927
 

4

Mantle Lamp Company of America —agreement with Erich Rohl, 1923 (patent assignment)
 

5

Mantle Lamp Company of America —order form, 1912
 

6

Operation of Patent Department, n.d.
 

7

W. J. Polydoroff, 1930-1938
 

8

W. J. Polydoroff—British Patent Specification, 1940
 

9-10

RCA Infringement Case, 1934-1941
 

11

Synthetic Records, 1930-1931
 

12

Tennessee Oil & Gas Stock, 1927-1930
 

13

Wakenva Coal Company, 1928-1931
     
    SERIES 3: VICTOR S. JOHNSON JR. FILES, 1914-1983
 

14

Subseries A: Biographical data
    Subseries B: Subject Files, 1914-1983
 

15

William H. Adler, Inc. 1947 – 1948
 

16

William H. Adler, Inc., January–June 1949
 

17

William H. Adler, Inc., July– September 1949
 

18

William H. Adler, Inc., October 1949–April 1950
 

19

William H. Adler, Inc., January 1950
 

20

William H. Adler, Inc., February 1950
 

21

William H. Adler, Inc., March 1950

6

74

22

1

William H. Adler, Inc., April 1950

6

23

William H. Adler, Inc., May 1950
 

24

William H. Adler, Inc., June 1950
 

25

William H. Adler, Inc., July 1950

6

26

William H. Adler, Inc., August 1950

7

1

William H. Adler, Inc., September-October 1950
 

2

William H. Adler, Inc., November 1950
 

3

William H. Adler, Inc., December
 

4

William H. Adler, Inc., 1951
 

5

William H. Adler, Inc. March -May 1952
 

6

William H. Adler, Inc. June– December 1952
 

7

William H. Adler, Inc., 1953
 

8

William H. Adler, Inc., 1954
 

9

William H. Adler, Inc., 1955
 

10

William H. Adler, Inc., 1956–1957
 

11

William H. Adler, Inc., 1958–1962
 

12

William H. Adler, Inc., 1963-1967

8

1

William H. Adler, Inc., 1968–1973
 

2

Acquisitions (proposals) 1965
 

3

William H. Adler, Inc., 1968, 1974-1976
 

4

William H. Adler, Inc., 1977-1978
 

5

William H. Adler, Inc. 1979
 

6

Advertisers, 1952-1962
 

7

Advertising, 1952–1953
 

8

Advertising, 1963–1964
 

9

Advertising, 1965–1966
 

10

Advertising, 1967
 

11

Advertising, 1968
 

12

Advertising, 1969
 

13

Advertising, 1970
 

14

Advertising, 1971

9

1

Advertising, 1972
 

2

Advertising, n.d.
 

3

Aladdin Community Kitchen Club, 1919-1924
 

4

Aladdin—Company History, 1914-1917
 

5-6

Aladdin—Company History
 

7

Aladdin Creed, 1970–1972
 

8

Aladdin Electronics, 1956 – 1957
 

9

Aladdin Electronics—Incorporation, 1971
 

10

Aladdin Electronics—Employee Handbook, n.d.
 

11

Aladdin Electronics, 1976 – 1977

10

1

Aladdin Electronics, 1978 – 1979
 

2

Aladdin Electronics—Skyborne, 1965 – 1969
 

3

Aladdin Industries—Employee Evaluations, 1953 & 1957
 

4

Aladdin Industries—Management Club, 1954 - 1956
 

5

Aladdin Industries—Plan for 1952
 

6

Aladdin Industries—Private Brand Study, 1970
 

7

Aladdin—AMTEC Inc. 1966-1967
 

8

Aladdin—AMTEC dissolution 1964 – 1966
 

9

Aladdin—AMTEC dissolution 1967 – 1968
 

10

Aladdin News Views—Correspondence 1960 - 1971
 

11

Aladdin News and Views, 1961, 1966

12

1

Aladdin News and Views, 1970
 

2

Aladdin News and Views, 1971
 

3

Aladdin News and Views, 1973
 

4

Aladdin Radio Industries, 1948 – 1953
 

5

Aladdin Radio Industries—Research and Development 1936
 

6

Aladdin Industries—TV tuner, 1949 – 1953
 

7

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Highlights to the Board of Directors

1969 – 1971

 

8

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Monthly Reports 1968
 

9

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Monthly Reports 1969
 

10

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Monthly Reports 1970
 

11

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Monthly Reports 1971
 

12

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Airlines 1967-1971
 

13

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—New Market 1968-1973
 

14

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Publicity 1970-1971
 

15

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Temp-Rite Service 1968 - 1971
 

16

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—General 1968

13

1

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—General 1969
 

2

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—General 1970
 

3

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—General 1971 - 1974
 

4

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—General 1976 - 1978
 

5

Aladdin Synergetics Inc.—Miscellaneous 1970 - 1972
 

6

Alexandria Labor Matters, 1937
 

7

American Thermos, non-exclusive free license on, pouring lid

1956–1957

 

8

American Thermos Bottle Company 1951–1957
 

9

American Thermos Products 1958–1961
 

10

Amsler Molton Company 1947
 

11

Arthur Anderson & Company 1971 – 1972
 

12

Amour Research Foundation, 1949- 1955
 

13

Amour Research 1948 – 1949
 

14

Amour Research Foundation 1946 – 1948

13

15

O/S Fldr. 2

Army Lantern 1949–1950

Army Lantern Drawings, 1949

14

1

Atomic Energy Commission 1949
 

2

Automation (industrial) 1956
 

3

Robert Baker 1957 – 1960
 

4

Robert Baker Contract 1948 – 1955
 

5

Carl Bramming, Jan. 1948 - May 1948
 

6

Carl Bramming, June 1948 – Dec. 1948
 

7

Carl Bramming, 1949

15

1

O/S Fldr. 1

Carl Bramming, 1950

Wide Mouth vacuum Bottle drawings, 1950

15

2

O/S Fldr. 1

Carl Bramming, 1951 – 1952

Addition to manufacturing building, 1952

15

3

Carl Bramming, 1953 – 1954

15

4

O/S Fldr. 1

Carl Bramming, 1955

Pint, small mouth vacuum bottle drawings, 1955

Wide mouth filler drawings, 1955

Proposed additions to glass house drawings, 1955

Temporary location of new equipment drawings, 1955

General property layout drawings, 1954

15

5

O/S Fldr. 1

Carl Bramming, 1956 – 1957

Trim and polish machine for vacuum bottle cups, 1956

15

6

O/S Fldr. 1

Carl Bramming, 1958 – 1960

Pint coffee maker, 1951, 1954

16

1

Carl Bramming, May 1961 – Aug. 1962
 

2

Carl Bramming, 1962 – 1964
 

3

Carl Bramming, 1965 – 1968
 

4

Carl Bramming, 1967 – 1970
 

5

Carl Bramming, 1971 – 1975
 

6

Carl Bramming, 1976 – 1978

17

1

Carl Bramming- Ideas and Suggestions 1962 - 1972
 

2

A.J. Carlson, 1948
 

3

A.J. Carlson, 1949
 

4

A.J. Carlson, 1950 – 1956
 

5

Corning Glass Works—Reports and Analyses, 1958 - 1967

18

1

Gorham Company, 1962 – 1966, 1973
 

2

Davy Crockett—Disney 1950 – 1951
 

3

Electricity Task Force, 1974
 

4

Employee Publications, 1955
 

5

Exports, 1948 – 1951
 

6

Factory Locations, 1952 – 1957
 

7

Forecasts, 1956 – 1957
 

8

A.L. Frye, 1972 – 1976
 

9

Future Products, 1952 – 1964
 

10

Hamilton Metal Products Company, 1950 – 1951

19

1

J.B. Henson/ W.K. Hollis, 1959 (status of product filler line)

19

2

Historical Material 1972 – 1976
 

3

Hopalong Cassidy 1950 – 1954
 

4

Industrial Designers, 1950 – 1957
 

5

Ingersoll Engineers-X15 Product Manufacturing System, 1982
 

6

Inventions and Ideas, 1959 – 1973
 

7

Izers, 1976
 

8

Kerosene Sales 1947 – 1953
 

9

King-Seeley Thermos—Employment Ethics, 1972 – 1978
 

10

King- Seeley vs. Aladdin 1963, 1977
 

11

King-Seeley Thermos—Anti-trust, 1975 – 1976
 

12

King-Seeley Thermos vs. Aladdin 1975
 

13

King-Seeley Thermos—Dispute: Philippines and New Zealand , 1975 – 1978
 

14

King-Seeley Thermos—Analysis of Freezer Lid, 1977
 

15

King-Seeley Thermos—Stock Values, 1976
 

16

King-Seeley Thermos—Strategy and Planning, July – Oct. 1975

20

1

King-Seeley Thermos—Strategy and Planning, Nov. 1975 – Jan. 1976
 

2

King-Seeley Thermos—Strategy and Planning, 1976 – 1980
 

3

King-Seeley Thermos—Miscellaneous, 1974 – 1983
 

4

King-Seeley Thermos—Miscellaneous, 1962 – 1976
 

5

King-Seeley Thermos—Department of Justice/ HFC/ KST merger 1976
 

6

E.H. Kriel, 1963 – 1979
 

7

E.H. Kriel, 1946 – 1947

21

1

E.H. Kriel, 1948 – 1949
 

2

E.H. Kriel—Personal 1946 – 1948
 

3

Labor, 1946 – 1956
 

4

Labor—Right-To-Work Laws, 1955 – 1957
 

5

Labor—Right-To-Work, 1965
 

6

Labor—Right-To-Work, 1966
 

7

National Religion and Labor Foundation 1956
 

8

Labor—Compulsory Union 1950
 

9

Labor—Wildcat Strike, March, 1973
 

10

Labor—Teamsters Suit
 

11

Labor—Negotiations, 1970 – 1971

22

1

Labor—Negotiations, 1973 – 1974
 

2

Labor—Negotiations Data, 1976
 

3

Labor—Negotiations, 1976 – 1977
 

4

Labor—Strike #1:  1974
 

5

Labor—Strike #2: 1974
 

6

Labor—Strike Publicity, 1974
 

7

Labor—Strike: Employee Letters 1974
 

8

Labor—NLRB 1974
 

9

Labor—Contracts 1960 – 1978

23

1

Lamp Catalogs, 1949-1950
 

2

Lamp Catalogs, 1951-1952

23

3

O/S Fldr. 2

Lanterns, 1954–1956

Lantern drawings, 1956

23

4

Carl Lindegren, (correspondence with Victor Sr.) 1938-1943
 

5

McKinsey & Co.- Marketing and Strategy, 1976
 

6

Management by Objective (Aladdin Synergetics Inc.), 1975-1976
 

7

Mantles, 1950–1972
 

8

Mantles, 1949–1952
 

9

Mantles—Glyoxal, 1947-1948
 

10

Mantle—Operations, 1935-1945
 

11

W.M. Meissner, 1956-1963

24

1

W. M. Meissner, 192 –1957

74

2

W. M. Meissner Vitosophy, 1911

24

2

Memos, 1958 – 1960
 

3

Memos, 1949 – 1957
 

4

Mexico , 1947- 1948
 

5

Organization, 1947 – 1949
 

6

Organization Chart, 1951 – 1957
 

O/S Fldr. 2

Organization Chart, 1956

24

7

Patents, 1946–1956
 

8

Patents—US copies ca. 1950s
 

9

Pay-Less Drug Company, 1951
 

10

Personnel Department, 1961-1965
 

11

Edwin F. Pierle, 1953-1956
 

12

J.L. Piot: Marketing Strategy, 1976-1981
 

O/S Fldr. 2

Plan of Aladdin Plant in Indiana , 1952

24

13

Plume and Atwood Mfg. Company, 1946-1955

25

1

Plume and Atwood, 1938-1943
 

2

Radio Corporation of America , 1940 - 1946
 

3

Racial, 1970
 

4

References to Aladdin, 1947, 1950
 

5

Research 1947, 1951
 

6

Service Award Banquet, 1972 - 1974
 

7

Staff: Consumer Product Division Strategy, 1974
 

8

Stanley Home Products Company, 1951 - 1952
 

9

The Severdrup Story, 1978
 

10

Self Test on Executive Methods, 1955
 

11

Stanley Division—Acquisition, 1961-1965

25

12

Stanley Division—Announcements and Publicity, 1965
 

13

Stanley Division—Comparison, 1965-1973

26

1

Stanley Division—Procedures, 1965
 

2

John Switack, 1948
 

3

Trademarks, 1948-1957
 

4

US Patent Office, 1957-1961
 

5

Vacuum Bottle Matters, 1962
 

O/S Fldr.  1

Vacuum Bottle—Designs 1962

26

6

Vacuum Bottle—Improvements 1962 - 1965
 

7

Vacuum Bottle—Matters, 1954-1956
 

8

Vacuum Bottle—Manufacturing 1971
 

9

Vacuum Bottle—Improvements 1959 - 1961
 

10

Vacuum Bottles, 1949 – 1952
 

11

O/S Fldr. 2

Vacuum Bottles—Autobar, 1950

Vacuum Bottle Autobar drawings, 1950

26

12

O/S Fldr. 2

Vacuum Bottles and Lunch Kits, 1949

Vacuum bottle lunch kit, 1949

26

13

Vacuum Bottle—Sani Sealed, 1949 - 1950
 

14

Vacuum Bottles—Steinie Bottle, 1949
 

15

Vacuum Bottles—Confidential, 1955
 

16

Vacuum Bottles—For Diabetics, 1953-1955
 

17

Women—Inquiries about, 1977
    Subseries C: About Aladdin Divisions, 1919-1983 

27

1

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Forms, n.d.
 

2

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Board of Directors, 1950
 

3

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Board of Directors, 1951
 

4

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Board of Directors, 1952
 

5

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Board of Directors, 1953
 

6

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Board of Directors, 1954
 

7

Aladdin Industries Inc.—Board of Directors, 1955
 

8