H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. founded 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Saturday, 10 March 1934 — The News (San Antonio), page 6. Preview feature for Monday 12 March store promotions across San Antonio. Paired with a product display photograph showing H&H tins, Crystalvac jars (1 lb and 3 lb), H&H Orange Pekoe Tea boxes, and other spice-line items.

The product display photograph shows each brand’s full size range stacked together, allowing cross-brand size comparison using the Crystalvac jars (known to be 1 lb and 3 lb) as reference. Reading the display left-to-right by brand group:

  • Crystalvac jars — 2 sizes (1 lb, 3 lb; both previously documented)
  • H and H Blend cans — 3 sizes
  • Menger Peaberry cans — 2 sizes
  • Sam Houston cans — 3 sizes (same graduated sizes as H and H Blend — shared can format across both brands)
  • Texas Girl bags — 3 formats: 3 lb bag, twin pack (2 × 1 lb), 1 lb bag — the twin pack still an active retail format five months after the October 1933 launch
  • H and H Tea cans — 4 sizes
  • H and H Tea jars — 2 sizes

The tea jars are notable — no H and H Tea jar specimen is otherwise documented in the collection or KB as of March 2026.

In the foreground of the display, a larger jar (likely the H & H Dutch Lunch Prepared Mustard jar) is visible alongside 4 smaller items. What can be read from the scan:

  • Center foreground: a spice tin sitting on top of two small jars — the jars are shorter/rounder than the tins in the main display; plausible candidates are extract bottles (vanilla, lemon) or small condiment jars
  • Right foreground: a uniquely shaped item — distinct silhouette from the standard spice tins and jars; form unidentified at current scan resolution

The article text confirms mustard, pepper, and “other items in the H & H spice list” were featured. A higher-resolution scan is needed to identify these items; they may document previously uncatalogued formats or extract bottle shapes from the 33-item 1932 spice and extract line.

A near-identical placement ran two days later in the San Antonio Express (Monday, 12 March 1934, page 9) — see 1934-03-12-san-antonio-express-1934-mar-12-mon-morning-page-9.

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Roster of Hoffmann-Hayman Company Products

Here are the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company’s products featured at grocery stores throughout San Antonio Monday, March 12. The items include H & H, Sam Houston, Menger and Texas Girl coffees; H & H Orange Pekoe Tea; Old Dutch Lunch Prepared Mustard, Pepper and other items in the H & H spice list.

The Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company, the leading independent coffee company, pioneer roaster and blender of fine coffee, and one of today the roster of items in its stock which are to be featured at grocery stores locally beginning Monday, March 12.

The articles represent not only the result of careful selection of choicest ingredients, but of production experience gained in over a quarter of a century of active association with the industry, and will be accorded special displays in many stores, beginning Monday, March 12.

Featured items in the Hoffmann-Hayman coffee, tea and spice stocks include the popular H. & H., Sam Houston, Menger and Texas Girl coffees; H. & H. Orange Pekoe tea, H. & H. Dutch Lunch prepared mustard, black pepper and other items in the spice line.

The wide range of coffee blends and package sizes is designed to supply every demand and requirement in this respect, the Hoffmann-Hayman officials explain, and to verify the company’s authentic production slogan, “A brand for every demand.”

The products of the Hoffmann-Hayman company featured here are familiar and popular items that enjoy wide favor and sale in the city, and merchants of San Antonio and Texas generally will benefit by securing abundant stocks of all of these items, the officials explain.

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