Skyline of San Antonio — a Summerville Photo Linen Postcard
A linen-era ‘Skyline of San Antonio’ postcard credited to Summerville Photo — the same San Antonio studio behind H&H’s 1929 employee billboard panorama.
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The Venice of Texas — a San Antonio River Linen Postcard
A Curteich linen postcard of the San Antonio River, published by Weiner News Co. — period River Walk context for the city H&H called home.
Research Update: Week of June 6, 2026
A second sitting with the Draves family, and the deer-mount patent we’d only heard about finally has a number: Edward W. Menger’s US 2,003,896, ‘Horn Mount’ ...
Research Update: Week of June 1, 2026
Tim Draves sent corrections that resolved a generation: the H&H Mengers are grandchildren — not great-grandchildren — of Menger Hotel founder William A. ...
Research Update: Week of June 4, 2026
The Menger family genealogy resolved across three generations, William A. Menger’s full biography documented, cause-of-death confirmations for two Hoffmanns,...
Antique Arms Annual, 1st Edition — S.P. Stevens, Publisher; R.L. Wilson, Editor (TGCA, 1971)
The first edition of the TGCA’s Antique Arms Annual, published by S.P. Stevens of San Antonio — the same Stevens documented as the probable H&H Coffee bi...
The Menger Family Genealogy Page
A photocopy of the Menger family tree — the document that names Minnie Menger, who married the company founder, and her brothers Gus and R.W. who ran Hoffman...
The Tin Can Book — Hyla M. Clark: The Can as Collectible Art, Advertising Art & High Art
A collector’s reference on lithographed tin containers — the design and advertising context for the H&H coffee tin collection.
The Canning Clan — Earl Chapin May, 1937: A History of the American Canning Industry Published the Year H&H Went Vacuum-Can
Earl Chapin May’s 1937 Macmillan history of the American canning industry, published the same year H&H installed its vacuum-can closing machine and the T...
The World Atlas of Coffee, 3rd Edition — James Hoffmann
The standard reference on coffee origins and trade — foundational context for the supply chains and sourcing geography that fed H&H’s San Antonio roaster...
How To Make The Best Coffee At Home — James Hoffmann
The contemporary specialty preparation reference that provides the technical baseline for reading H&H’s freshness-first messaging against the longer arc ...
H and H Coffee Three-Pound Square Glass Jar — Regular Grind, Red Lid, Paper Label
A three-pound Crystalvac square jar with the original red painted metal lid and a paper label retaining the full H and H typography — the first labeled three...
American Can Company 1934 Trade Ad — Closing Machine, Factory Floor, ‘Getting Things Off on the Right Foot’
A 1934 American Can Company trade print ad showing a Canco closing machine on the factory floor — the machinery class H and H would install for vacuum-can pa...
Huntley Mfg. Co. Monitor Spare Part Catalog — Peanut Cleaning, Shelling and Grading (Silver Creek Era)
A Monitor spare parts catalog from the Huntley Silver Creek factory, cross-referenced to Catalog No. 55 — one of two machinery catalogs from a single eBay lot.
Huntley Manufacturing Co. Monitor Peanut Cleaning, Shelling, Grading and Roasting Machinery — Catalog No. 69
Monitor Catalog No. 69, covering peanut-cleaning and roasting machinery from Huntley Manufacturing — the same equipment family as H and H’s coffee roasters, ...
Huntley Mfg. Co. Monitor Coffee Roasting, Cooling and Stoning Machinery — Supplementary to Catalogue No. 64
A Monitor coffee-roasting machinery supplement from Huntley’s Silver Creek era, covering the Four-Bag Model, B Style Self-Contained roaster, Steel Cut Granul...
Huntley Manufacturing Co. Monitor Coffee Machinery Catalog No. 66 — Brocton Era Roasters and Coolers
The Brocton-period edition of the Monitor Coffee Machinery catalog from Huntley Manufacturing — the machinery maker whose roasters are documented at H and H’...
Huntley Mfg. Co. Monitor Coffee Grinding and Blending Machinery — Brocton Era Catalog
The Monitor grinding and blending catalog from Huntley’s Brocton period — the downstream equipment class that produced H and H’s Steel Cut, Regular Grind, an...
Old Plantation Steel Cut Coffee — A Second Simpson & Doeller Tin Enters the Reference Set
Baltimore Merchants Coffee Co. one-pound ‘Old Plantation’ tin with the THE SIMPSON & DOELLER CO BALTO MD maker’s mark — comparandum widening the evidence...
A Two-Pound Master Chef Pair Bracketing Two Label Generations
Two-tin lot of 2 LBS NET Master Chef keywind cans — and a small surprise once tin #2 was photographed: the lot brackets two consecutive Master Chef label gen...
From a 25-pound lard-can roaster to the finest plant in the South — H and H coffee equipment, 1904–1960s
The story of Hoffmann-Hayman’s production equipment is a straight line from a single cast-iron drum small enough to carry by hand to a multi-roaster operatio...
Joy-Cup Brand Coffee slip-lid tin
Baltimore-area Joy-Cup one-pound slip-lid tin—Simpson & Doeller’s city—with a Sam Houston–like portrait roundel layout; in-hand photo, eBay WebP set, and...
S. P. Stevens and the H and H Master Chef sign — visual comparison
Family lore says Stanford P. Stevens painted H and H Coffee billboards before founding Stevens Outdoor Advertising. Two signed oils — a 1954 cowboy and a 195...
Ghost sign — hand-painted H and H on exposed brick solved
Artifact Snapshot Era: Type: Brands: H and H Blend Coffee Confidence: medium Evidence and Sources On-site ghost...
H and H Coffee Clip-and-Save Coupons
Five red clip-and-save H and H Coffee coupons donated by Mac Johanson (Three Rivers, TX)—collect 18 for a free pound at the grocer.
H and H Half Pound Blend — Light Housekeepers Size (1920s Label)
Second of two Light Housekeepers half-pound tins—this one bought from Wolf Henning von Kameke in Germany in March 2017 with its lid (the eBay specimen is lid...
H and H Blend Round Tin
Round H and H Blend coffee tin from Comfort, Texas—paper label gone, embossed lid; bought in person at Stuff & More.
Sales report books from the office ceiling
Site-recovered factory sales books whose preprinted line items confirm the H&H product roster the office tracked in the interwar period—Tea, H and H Coff...
Broncho Coffee & American Pickers
Purchased Mike Wolfe’s Art of the Pick photo book and the signed 12×18 Broncho Coffee print from Antique Archaeology / Art of the Pick—the American Pickers r...
East-wing shed — Master Chef plywood and shipping-crate boards in the walls
Exploring the metal-roofed shed attached to the east wing of the plant in May 2014, we found interior partition walls built from salvaged sheet goods and cra...
