Packing department interior crop — San Antonio Light, 21 Nov 1937
Wide horizontal interior photograph of the Hoffmann-Hayman packing department at 601 Delaware Street, cropped from the San Antonio Light “Supplying Trade with H & H Coffee” item, 21 November 1937, page 98. The halftone shows two parallel fill / pack tables receiving cans and jars, with at least a dozen workers in white aprons and caps — predominantly women along the right-hand line — handling product under overhead lighting and exposed roof framing; sacked stock and crates are visible against the back wall.
For brand history, this is the only known 1937 floor-shot that documents the vacuum can and Crystalvac glass jar line in production after the June 1937 machinery investment described in the companion text item. It anchors the scale of employment (“a large number of persons are employed”) that the 3 Nov 1937 News feature quantified at 75 employees, and pairs with the vacuum closing machine crop from the same month to picture the modernized 601 Delaware plant end-to-end.
Transcription
No body copy appears inside this photo crop; original caption text is documented on the parent post.
Source
- See Supplying trade with H & H coffee — San Antonio Light, 21 Nov 1937 for the photo caption, Crystalvac context, and full Newspapers.com reference.
