- 1 - AC NMAH 411 CHARLES W. TRIGG PAPERS (1834-1961) [4.5 cu. ft: 8 DB, 5 ShB, 1 F/O] Biography Charles Wilderman Trigg (1898-1989) was born in Baltimore. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1917 and an M.A. in 1931 from the University of Southern California. He was an industrial Research Fellow at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, from 1916-1920, doing original research on processes for producing instant coffee. In 1920, he joined King Coffee Products Corporation, Detroit, as chief chemist. He later served in various college teaching positions, dean of instruction and lecturer at the University of Southern California (1950-1963). During World War II, Trigg served as Lt. Cmdr, USNR. He published numerous articles in trade journals and was granted five patents related to coffee processing. Scope and Content Most of the material in this collection was generated by Trigg early in his career, as an industrial research fellow at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, 1916-1920 and shortly thereafter. It includes laboratory notebooks, formal weekly reports (typewritten) on his investigations, and correspondence with his industrial sponsors. Personal data on Trigg is confined to a few personal letters and some correspondence relating to his interest in coffee processing. His patents and correspondence relating to them are included in the personal information. A collection of clippings and reprints of technical articles on tea and coffee processing and culture are dated from 1883 to 1963. U.S. patents relating to these subjects go back to 1834 and up to 1921. Foreign patents, including British, French and German, range from 1855 to 1918. Pamphlets contain technical articles on coffee and related subjects, including U.S. Department of Agriculture and Canadian
- 2 - Government publications. Trigg's personal file of 4" x 6" cards (mainly hand-written) reflects his extensive reading of technical literature. It numbers more than 5,000 cards arranged chronologically. The cards contain bibliographic data as well as Trigg's brief abstractions. Provenance The Trigg papers were donated to the NMAH Archives Center by Mrs. Charles W. Trigg on May 30, 1991. Don Darroch November 25, 1992
- 3 - AC NMAH 411 CHARLES W. TRIGG PAPERS [4.5 cu.ft.: 8 DB, 5 ShB, 1 F/O] Container List Series 1: C.W. Trigg Work at Mellon Institute 1916-1920 BOX FOLDER 1 1 Laboratory notebooks 1915-1919 2 J.E. King Industrial Fellowship reports 1916-1917 3 Laboratory notebooks 1916-1920 4 Laboratory notebooks 1917 5 Laboratory notebooks 1917-1918 6 Progress reports 1917-1920 2 7 Correspondence 1915-1921 8 Trigg correspondence 1918 9 Trigg correspondence 1919 10 Laboratory test notes and recordings 1918-1919 11 German correspondence 1914 14 (oversize) Photographs of Mellon Institute staff 1917 Diplomas and certificates 1910-1917
- 4 - Series 2: Personal Data and Patents of C. W.Trigg 2 1 Trigg personal 1917-1922 2 Correspondence 1919-1922 3 Correspondence 1920-1924 4 Lummus Co. correspondence 1917-1921 5 Article, ideas 1917-1923 3 6 Clippings, papers 1910-1946 7 Patent correspondence (Hamer, Trigg, Barnes) 1917-1918 8 Patent applications 1917-1918 9 Original patents, patent assignments, Trigg/King 1912-1921 10 U.S. Patent Office correspondence 1918-1920 11 Trigg Patents 1919-1921
- 5-12 Laboratory notebook, test results 1920-1921 13 Laboratory notebooks 1921-1922 14 Trigg Patent correspondence 1948 15 Oils and essential oils 1910-1925 16 Foods, Coffee 1920-1935 17 Production process, blank forms, n.d. 4 18 Correspondence 1920-1922 19 Coffee (report of the Business Bourse) c. 1918 20 King Coffee Co. prospectus, 1920-1921 14 (oversize) King Coffee building plans 1921 Mathematical charts, n.d. Series 3: Abstracts from Technical Articles on Coffee, Tea; Correspondence, Clippings 4 1 Coffee clippings 1913-1961 2 Coffee bibliography 1910-1918 3 Coffee correspondence 1917-1924 4 Coffee (copies) 1895-1925 5 Tea clippings 1907-1929 6 Tea/coffee clippings 1917-1863 7 Tea bibliography 1923-1926 8 Tea correspondence 1922-1924 5 9 Tea (copies) 1883-1926 10 Tea (copies) 1897-1912 11 Tea reprints 1921-1922 12 Technical articles (German/English) 1913-1924 13 Coffee reprints 1917-1922 14 Reprints, Robert Kennedy Duncan Club Bulletin, 1916-1919 15 Coffee tree culture (n.d.)
- 6 - Series 4: Patents and Patent Abstracts re: Coffee Processing 5 1 U.S. patents 0-100,000 (1834-1869) 2 U.S. patents 100,001-200,000 (1870) 3 U.S. patents 200,001-300,000 (1878-1884) 4 U.S. patents 300,001-400,00 (1884-1889) 6 5 U.S. patents 400,001-500,000 (1889-1893) 6 U.S. patents 500,001-600,000 (1893-1898) 7 U.S. patents 600,001-700,000 (1898-1902) 8 U.S. patents 700,001-800,000 (1902-1905)
- 7-9 U.S. patents 800,001-900,000 (1906-1911) 10 U.S. patents 900,001-1,000,000 (1908-1911) 11 U.S. patents 1,000,001-1,100,000 (1911-1914) 12 U.S. patents 1,100,001-1,200,000 (1914-1916) 13 U.S. patents 1,200,001-1,300,000 (1916-1919) 7 14 U.S. patents 1,300,001-1,400,000 (1919-1921) 15 U.S. patents 1,400,001-1,500,000 (1921) 16 British patents (1855-1913) 17 French patents (1906-1917) 18 German patents (1870-1918) Series 5: Technical Publications (1902-1944) Box # 8: FOLDER ITEM 1 1 Publication of Mysore Coffee for The English Market. Fraser Press, 1921 2 Preparation of Coffee. Kenya Dept. of Agriculture, 1921 3 How Whisky, Tobacco and Drugs Affect the Eyes. American Medical Assn., 1914 (Phamphlets vi and xvi) 4 Tea and Coffee: Their Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects. New York: Fowler and Wells, n.d. 5 The Volatile Principles of Coffee. L. E. Sayre, 1916 6 Robusta Coffee. Viehoever and Lepper, 1921 2 7 Coffee Planting. Hillman, 1902 8 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1891
- 8-9 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1904 10 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1906
- 9 - Box # 8 (cont'd.): FOLDER ITEM 2 11 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1909 12 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1914 13 Ground Coffee. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1909 14 Coffee and Coffee Substitutes. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1914 15 Ground Coffee. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1916 16 Coffee and Substitutes. Canada: Laboratory of Inlnad Revenue Dept., 1918 17 Methods of Cultivation of Coffee. Kenya, 1920 18 "The Nose and Its Work." Harper's Magazine, 1920 19 Ground Coffee. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1910 20 "Scientific Analysis of Tea." Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, 1912 21 Service and Regulatory Announcements. U.S. Dept of Agriculture (3), 1915-1916 3 22 Weight Variation of Package Foods. USDA, 1920 23 Prices of Tea, Coffee and Cocoa. War Industries Board, 1919 24 Studies in Clarification of Unfermented Fruit Juices. USDA 1922 25 Service and Regulatory Announcements. USDA, 1916
- 10-26 Apple Syrup and Concentrated Cider. USDA, 1914 27 Toxicity of Caffeine: An Experimental Study. USDA, 1912
- 11 - Box # 8 (cont'd.): FOLDER ITEM 28 Food Products and Drugs 1921. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 29 Food Products and Drugs 1920. Connecticut AES 30 Food Products and Drugs 1918. Connecticut AES 4 31 American Journal of Pharmacy, 1914 32 Digestibility of Cod-Liver [and other] Oils. USDA, 1922 33 Coffee Roasting with Gas. Milwaukee Gas Light Co., 1917 34 Application of Gas to Coffee and Cereal Roasting. National Commercial Gas Assn., 1917 35 Coffee Interpretations. Joint Coffee Trade Publicity Committee, 1923 36 "German Patent Bibliography." Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 1916 37 "New Use for Coffee Grounds." Tea and Coffee Trade Journal 1917 38 Ground Coffee. Ottawa: Inland Revenue Dept., 1904 39 Ground Coffee. Ottawa: Inland Revenue Dept.,1909 40 "Improved Method for Quantitative Determination of Caffeine in Vegetable Material." Journal of American Chemical Society, 1919 41 L'Huile Grasse des Graines de the'. National Institute of Colonial Agriculture, 1923
- 12-42 Recueil de Travux Chimiques des Pays-Bas. Netherlands Chemical Society, 1923 43 Overdruk uit het Nederlandsch Indisch, 1924 44 Vanille, Vanilline, Vanille-Extracten. Colonial Institute of Amsterdam, 1922
- 13 - Box # 8 (cont'd.): FOLDER ITEM 5 45 "100 lb. of Coffee Roasted at Fuel Cost of 7 cents for Gas." American Gas Engineering Journal, 1917 46 "Caffeine from Coffee Soot." Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, 1920 47 Technologie du The'. Paris: Library of Colonial Agriculture, 1926 6 48 Journal of Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 1944 49 Journal of New York Botanical Garden, 1925 50 Coffee Planting--Nitrate of Soda Propaganda, n.d. Series 6: Trigg Card File (1857-1939) BOX ITEM 9 Chemical Abstract, vols. 1-19 (1905-1925): cards 1-1202, 10 Chemical Abstract, vols. 20-28 (1926-1933): cards 1203-2211 11 Chemical Abstract, vols. 29-31 (1934-1937): cards 2212-2633 Chemical Abstract, vol. 32 (1937-1938): non-numbered cards U.S. Patents (1858-1884): cards 10001-10700 12 U.S. Patents (1884-1922): cards 10701-11462 U.S. Patents (1922-1937): non-numbered, 150 cards 13 Index Medicus, 1st series (1879-1890): approx. 80 cards
- 14 - Index Medicus, 2nd series (1903-1920): approx. 300 cards Index Medicus, 3rd series (1921-1925): 17 cards Cumulative Index (1917-1924): 27 cards Journal of Society of Chemical Industry (1882-1916): cards 1-35 Miscellaneous publications (1857-1939): approx. 450 cards