Coffee factory interior — Maxwell House cases and jar line

A wide black-and-white interior of a mid-century coffee-packing room: a long, serpentine floor conveyor carries a single file of small glass jars with pale lids; at the left, a heavy motor-and-belt station with a spoked sheave feeds the line; thick cylindrical columns and a high ceiling of conduit and bowl pendant lights frame stacks of finished-goods cases — at the left, cartons clearly lettered for Maxwell House Coffee — while the belt disappears toward more machinery and a bright window at the far end. No workers are in the frame, so it reads like an end-of-line or after-hours still. The lot was sold on eBay as a Chase & Sanborn plant view; we keep that only as the seller’s wording, because the case printing in the photograph tells a different brand story.

We bought the photograph in June 2014 on eBay for the research shelf. A national-brand interior gives a concrete sense of how small glass lines and case goods moved in the same decades when Hoffmann-Hayman was retailing the Crystalvac jar. The print is not a San Antonio factory view, but the belt, jar scale, and open floor read the way we imagine a mid-century glass-packing line beside the tin and paper we already hold.