- Address:
- 12100 Smith Dr
Huntley, IL 60142
- Phone:
- 847-669-3600
- Website:
- http://www.hscrocker.com/
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- Company Information:
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Of special interest is one stone, which shows the name of H.S. Crocker, Inc., and an early subsidiary, Cunningham, Curtis & Welch Company Los Angeles. The first offset-lithographic press manufactured in America was purchased and used by H.S. Crocker Company and later donated to the Smithsonian Museum.
Our beginnings were humble. Founded in 1856 in Sacramento, gateway to the California gold fields, our first headquarters was a tent with a small sign that read simply: "H.S. Crocker Company Printers". Promising "first class printing" to all customers, we soon moved into a wood frame building.
As millions in gold and silver poured down from the Mother Lode and Nevada, San Francisco became a city almost overnight. It also became the center of the West Coast printing industry". In 1871, Crocker established its first printing and lithography plant in the City by the Golden Gate.
In 1885, Crocker erected a five-story plant, considered to be the finest commercial printing establishment in the West; here we operated our own steam plant, selling power to other printers in the area.
Expansion continued with the purchases of other companies, including Independent Lithograph Company in 1958 and Strobridge Lithograph Company of Cincinnati in 1960, H.S. Crocker acquired Fraser Label Company of Chicago in 1969; and, in 1972, we purchased Lockwood Folding Box Company, in business in Norristown, Pennsylvania, since 1850 and long noted for pharmaceutical carton production.
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