Almost every photograph on this page is an H and H Coffee or Hoffmann-Hayman item we’ve documented but do not own. They come from online auction listings, collector and dealer photos, newspaper and archive scans, museum study visits (where we were able to photograph objects in another institution’s holdings), and material shared with us directly. Exception: one Bolner’s Fiesta retail product (16 Mesh Black Pepper) is not H&H-labeled; it is here as related reference for the Bolner’s Fiesta and H and H (1971) equipment narrative. We keep reference material separate from Our Collection so the difference between what’s in hand and what’s only on record stays clear.

For factory equipment after the roastery closed — where at least one industrial grinder reportedly went inside another San Antonio food business — see the blog post Bolner’s Fiesta and H and H (1971) (Texas Monthly / Texas Highways reporting; primary records still sought).

The gallery is a working reference — useful for identifying a piece you’ve come across, comparing label variants and size runs, or tracking down something we’d like to track further.

The image grid follows the ordered sequence: in _data/galleries/reference/order.yml. This outline groups the same material to follow the firm’s story — packaging first, then how it was sold and seen, then the people behind the cup, then the brand out in the world, then the audio:

  • Tins, pails, and bags in variants we don’t hold — Press: the San Antonio Evening News for 18 April 1922 advertises H and H Blend in whole bean, medium ground, and pulverized, each in ½ lb, 1 lb, and 3 lb containers (blog note, newspaper scan). Opening with the earliest surviving H and H Blend branding documented for the project: a previously-undocumented large bulk-size H and H Blend tin with a square cross-section, a recessed circular lid well at the top (lid missing), the same vertical ‘H & H’ monogram on the narrow sides, the same early ‘We roast It / others praise It’ slogan on the front face, and the full ‘This is a blend of High Grade coffees, selected and roasted with care and is guaranteed to please’ guarantee on the back face — branding identical to the early-1920s three-pound H and H Blend tin from Euless, TX but in a much larger format consistent with bulk grocer-counter or family-size packing; the rest of the H and H Blend run including a three-pound tin and a one-pound Medium Ground rectangular tin from the Mac Johanson collection; H and H one-pound bag designs; Master Chef “Free Offer” and updated labels; the three-pound Broncho tin as listed on ArtofthePick.com (the tin itself — we own the 12x18 Antique Archaeology poster of this tin, shown in Our Collection); a Border Coffee three-pound tin; Sam Houston tins and a galvanized zinc coffee pail with wire bail handle (documented both in the Mac Johanson collection and on display at the Witte Museum in San Antonio); and a Texas Girl one-pound paper bag — closing with an Alamy stock photograph of a Border Brand “cup & saucer premium” pail whose side cartouche plainly reads “THIS BUCKET CONTAINS CUP & SAUCER PREMIUM / Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. / San Antonio, Texas”, grouped in the same frame with two three-pound rectangular H and H Blend tins in very different states of wear and an unrelated Geo. W. Wilson Co. “Winner Brand Pickles” jar that sits in for contextual San Antonio packing reference, the whole frame documenting the Border Coffee premium variant explicitly called for on the Border Coffee brand page; and a nine-photograph set from a 15 October 2019 look at Hoffmann-Hayman material in the Witte Museum’s own collection during a special presentation to the project (Witte 2019 visit post) — Border Premium 3 lb and 4 lb cup-and-saucer pails, Sam Houston 4 lb, Texas Girl 1 lb paper bag, H and H Blend rectangular and vacuum-packed rounds plus a brick in archival wrap, a western Anita Brand / Peaberry Blend three-pound pail, and the bottom of a leaf-form ashtray premium (earned by sending in H and H coupons) embossed ‘Eat — Smoke — Drink — H&H — Coffee’, Witte accession KS 193 — all institutional reference, not items we hold in Our Collection.
  • Crystalvac jars and Three Rivers supplier site — the Texas Historical Commission marker at the Three Rivers Glass Company works (Three Rivers Glass bottles) — field reference for the glasshouse behind Hoffmann-Hayman’s square jars — then jar photography: a single labeled jar, a documented pair of clear and amber one-pound jars from the Mac Johanson collection (useful for comparison with the unlabeled jars we actually own), and a multi-item staging that places a Crystalvac jar alongside an H and H Tea box and an H and H High Grade Vacuum Packed Coffee keywind tin to set the brand’s packaging family beside one another in one frame.
  • Signs and posters — an H and H storefront sign and three Texas Girl pieces grouped together: a Texas Girl coffee sign, a framed Texas Girl poster, and a framed tin sign (photo courtesy Darin Grimsley, found in Kansas).
  • Ephemera and paper — the Hoffmann-Hayman postcard, a 1936 Texas Centennial Blue Bonnet seed packet credited “Compliments Sam Houston · Texas Girl Coffees” (front and back placed adjacent), a Victorian Simpson & Doeller (Baltimore) trade card advertising Design and Print Labels of Every Description — the same firm whose skirt mark is documented on a 1920s H and H Blend tin (tin-marking post) — a July 2015 project photograph of the small Ask Your Grocer / H AND H COFFEE paper sampler cup alone, a July 2015 side-by-side of Texas Girl (2 lb family) and H and H (1 lb, Master Chef strip, Continental Coffee Company) paper bags, and a staging photo combining that seed packet with the same cup line set against H and H Blend and Sam Houston tins.
  • Vehicles — H and H out on the street: an H and H Blend promotional parade auto with a giant cube of the product mounted on top, a working Texas Girl Coffee delivery truck, and a wider crew shot with H and H delivery trucks lined up beside their drivers.
  • Related brand (not H&H packaging) — Bolner’s Fiesta Extra Fancy 16 Mesh Black Pepper (8 oz) retail bottle, project photo 15 January 2024 — context for the 1971 grinder story (secondary sources; not Hoffmann–Hayman merchandise).
  • 1932 Delaware Street plant — GW Mitchell archive — Interior crowd photograph from the December 1932 grand-opening period: CUP TESTING DEPT. signage, guests with cups and saucers, counter service in white uniforms — GW Mitchell Construction reference image (not an accessioned original in our files); context in Factory Construction by G. W. Mitchell.
  • People — the cuppers — a small cluster of three “person evaluating the coffee” documentary images presented in descending order of identification confidence: first the UTSA San Antonio Light photograph of Gus P. Menger and his son Albert at a cupping table in front of the H and H silos (archival caption confirms identity), then the framed formal studio cupping portrait (tentative Gus P. Menger in later life), and finally the loose print of a man at a drum roaster — association by archive (adjacent H and H sheets in the same stack), not by an H and H mark in the frame.
  • Storefronts and streetscapes — in-situ retail documentation of H and H Coffee signage in chronological order across very different commercial contexts: first a late-1920s / early-1930s black-and-white street photograph of a belt peddler in San Antonio with the Oriental Cafe and Bar’s urban cafe-marquee signs directly behind him advertising “Serving H&H Coffee”; next, a 1949 photograph from UTSA Digital Collections (General Photograph Collection, item 9664) showing the Azteca Cafe exterior with painted signage for tacos de barbacoa, H and H coffee, and beer; then a black-and-white documentary photograph (in the manner of early-1940s FSA/OWI work) of a rural South Texas Tejano general-store porch where a large porcelain-enamel “H AND H Coffee” sign sits on the porch railing facing the street between a Tinsley’s Natural Leaf tobacco sign and a dense period array of snuff, RC Cola, Chesterfield, Union Leader, Union Standard, and Bugler tobacco advertising, dated to 1942 or shortly after by a Spanish-language “Mujer Mexicana” (1942) movie poster leaning at left; a black-and-white UTSA street photograph from the Ray Howell collection (item 412) of Mi Tierra Cafe and Bakery at 218 Produce Row with Master Chef Coffee (H and H) building signage, Produce Row and S. San Saba in frame; and finally — at a museum remove — a “Nuestra Cultura · 75 Años” 2016 lanyard pass from Mi Tierra Cafe & Bakery’s September 2016 75th-anniversary celebration, photographed in 2024 on display in the Witte Museum exhibit “Mi Cultura — Bringing Shadows Into the Light: The Photography of Al Rendón” (a 50-year retrospective of San Antonio Tejano cultural photographer Al Rendón, curated by Bruce Shackelford and Katherine Nelson Hall, on view 2 September 2023 – 27 May 2024 in the South Texas Heritage Center as part of the 2023 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE festival) — almost certainly Rendón’s own working press pass from the anniversary, displayed in the same wall run as his press passes from Led Zeppelin and Elton John concerts; the card’s sepia portrait montage of Pedro and Cruz Cortez incorporates the same iconic 1950s Mi Tierra storefront imagery already tracked in the project (1 2 3), with a clear vertical “MASTER CHEF COFFEE” wall sign in the upper right of the backdrop documenting the H and H hotel-and-restaurant trade brand on Mi Tierra’s storefront — a third in-situ Master Chef / H&H signage frame, this one preserved on a working photographer’s press pass and elevated into a curated retrospective at the Witte rather than an original period photograph.
  • Audio and broadcast — a black lacquer Master Chef Coffee radio advertising record cut by Broggi Advertising Agency, San Antonio, in August 1961 (four spots, A-17-61 through A-20-61), contributed by Kevin Mackey — one of the very few audio pieces documented for the H and H / Master Chef line.

If you own one of these — or know who does — the contact and wanted pages are the right place to reach us.

Color photograph documented 2023-05-20 of a heavily worn large square-cross-section bulk-size H and H Blend Coffee tin standing on a green marble side table against a wood-floor and white-door domestic interior — viewed at an oblique three-quarter angle so that two adjacent painted faces are visible at once: at left, a narrow side panel carrying a tall vertical 'H & H' monogram in cream-bordered red letters stacked top-to-bottom on a deep blue field framed by a red double-line border on a cream ground, with the 'H', the ampersand '&', and a second 'H' arranged as three separate red cartouches running down the panel; at right, the broader front face of the tin showing a deep blue field with an ornate red rectangular cartouche bearing in cream script-and-roman lettering the early Hoffmann-Hayman slogan **'We roast It / others praise It'**; the painted surfaces show extensive scratch wear, paint loss along the corner crease, surface scuffing, and dust; the unpainted top of the tin is a flat square plate with a circular recessed lid well at its center (the original press-fit lid is missing), the bare metal heavily oxidized; the same red-white-and-blue palette and slogan as the Euless, TX three-pound H and H Blend tin in the museum collection, but in a substantially larger bulk format — not in the museum collection Color photograph documented 2023-05-20 of the same heavily worn large square-cross-section bulk-size H and H Blend Coffee tin photographed square-on to its opposite broad face — a deep blue field framed by a red double-line border on a cream ground, with a single cream-bordered red cartouche containing a serif 'H' centered above and a matching cartouche with a serif 'H' centered below, and at the center of the panel a large red rectangular cartouche with a cream double-line border carrying in cream serif capitals the full guarantee text reading 'THIS IS A / BLEND OF / HIGH GRADE / COFFEES / SELECTED AND / ROASTED WITH / CARE AND IS / GUARANTEED / TO PLEASE' — the same 'blend of High Grade coffees' product phrasing already documented as early-1920s H and H Blend language on the three-pound rectangular tin in the museum collection; surface heavily scuffed and scratched with paint loss along the bottom edge, the flat square top plate above with its circular recessed lid well visible (lid missing), set on a green marble side table against a wood-floor interior — not in the museum collection H and H Blend Coffee - Three Pound Tin One-pound rectangular H and H Blend Coffee tin, Medium Ground — red label with cream block letters on a dark field, marked 'Roasted and Packed by Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co., San Antonio, Texas' and 'One Pound Net Weight' — from the Mac Johanson collection H and H 1 pound Bags H and H Bag Master Chef Tin - Free Offer Master Chef Tin Updated **Black-and-white photograph** from **Instagram** media export **17862082333188116** — Hoffmann-Hayman **exhibit or hotel-ballroom sampling table** (**not** a photograph of an object **in the museum collection**) — two **men in dark mid-century suits and ties** stand behind a **long white-skirted** counter in an **ornate public room** (patterned carpet, **crystal chandelier** and **ceiling mouldings** soft-focused behind); **foreground left**, polished **metal coffee urn** lettered **'Drink H-H Master Chef Coffee'** beside **stacks of paper cups** and **sample plates**; **skirted fascia** carries repeated **chef-head portrait** cards reading **'Drink H-H Master Chef Coffee — Finest Hotel Coffee For Home Use!'**; **center**, tall piles of **H-H Tea** folding cartons; **right**, **pyramided retail stacks** of **Master Chef Coffee** litho **one-pound** cans; under the cloth, **corrugated shipping cases** including one marked **'24 - 1 LB. CANS'**, **'VAC. PACKED'**, **'WARNING DO NOT STAND ON END'**; **stylized scenic backdrop** board behind the product mass — documents **co-marketing of Master Chef Coffee with H and H Tea** in a **trade-show / hotel catering** posture Three-pound Broncho Coffee tin as listed on ArtofthePick.com (Antique Archaeology / Mike Wolfe of American Pickers) — the physical tin photographed for sale, not in our collection; we do hold the 12x18 poster of this tin in Our Collection Border Coffee 3 pound Tin Sam Houston Tin Open-top galvanized zinc Sam Houston Coffee pail with wire bail handle — worn red paper label wrapped around the body showing cream 'Sam Houston' script, an oval portrait of Sam Houston, and 'COFFEE' in block letters — from the Mac Johanson collection Sam Houston Coffee pail on display at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, photographed through the exhibit glass on 2018-03-24 — red paper label with cream 'Sam Houston' script, an oval portrait of Sam Houston, and 'COFFEE' in block letters on a galvanized pail with wire bail handle; a Longhorn Cafe Coffee tin (San Antonio) sits alongside on the same shelf, with a Red Swan Coffee tin and other small coffee tins on the shelf below Unused one-pound Texas Girl Coffee paper bag laid flat — magenta ground with a cream portrait of the Texas Girl framed by leafy branches above a black banner reading 'Texas Girl' and 'Texas Girl Coffee' printed on the folded bottom panel — from the Mac Johanson collection Color Alamy stock photograph (watermarked 'alamy') of a grouped antique-shelf display of San Antonio food-packing tins and a pickle jar against rough weathered wood-plank siding, documented 2023-02-25 — at left, two stacked three-pound rectangular H and H Blend Coffee tins in red, white, and blue (top label clean with only light wear, bottom one heavily paint-flaked and rusted) marked 'H AND H BLEND COFFEE / MEDIUM GROUND / ROASTED AND PACKED BY HOFFMANN-HAYMAN COFFEE CO. / SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS'; at right, a cylindrical red-white-and-blue vertical-striped 'Border Brand Premium Coffee' pail with a rusted press-fit lid, front cartouche showing a cup-and-saucer illustration with banners reading 'BORDER · BRAND · SAUCER · PREMIUM · COFFEE' and 'STEEL CUT' along the bottom edge, and a clearly readable ornate oval side cartouche reading 'THIS BUCKET CONTAINS CUP & SAUCER PREMIUM / Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. / SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS' (establishing that this Border pail is an H and H product and a premium variant of the kind the Border Coffee brand page already calls out); and in the center of the group, standing on top of the Border pail, a tall clear-glass wire-bail preserving jar with a paper/foil label reading 'WINNER Brand PICKLES / SOUR PLAIN / CONTENTS 32 OZ. / Packed by Geo. W. Wilson Co. / San Antonio, TEX.' — not a Hoffmann-Hayman product but another early-20th-century San Antonio food-packing firm's jar, included here for contextual San Antonio packing reference Field photograph of the **Texas Historical Commission** historical marker for the **Three Rivers Glass Company** (**circa 1920–1936**) at **Three Rivers, Texas** — the **South Texas glasshouse** whose **square vacuum jars** (**Crystalvac** packaging family) and other bottles **Hoffmann-Hayman** filled in San Antonio; **supplier-plant documentation** on **location**, **not** a photograph of the **Delaware Street coffee factory** itself — project reference frame (**Instagram 2017** outing; companion copy on **[Three Rivers Glass bottles]({{ site.baseurl }}/three_rivers_glass_bottles/)**) **Color photograph** taken **April 2017** at the **Three Rivers Glass Co.** collectors’ weekend — **large-format promotional wall calendar** from **Three Rivers Glass Co., Three Rivers, Texas**, with a central **February 1931** month grid, **January** and **March 1931** strips at the foot flanking a **3 RIVERS STAR BOTTLES** logo, and a top panel **factory-interior** photograph captioned **HERE'S WHERE GLASS SAND STARTS ON A THREE AND A HALF DAY TRIP** with supporting copy on batch ingredients and **125-ton** furnace capacity; bottom strip lists beverage bottles, milk bottles, and packers ware — **show-field documentation** of TRGCo advertising ephemera (**not** an object in the San Antonio museum collection) Crystalvac Jar with Label Victorian trade card — **THE SIMPSON AND DOELLER CO.** in red-brown display type with shadow; central color illustration of two peaches on a branch; **DESIGN AND PRINT LABELS** / **OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.** in red and navy; footer **BALTIMORE, MD.** — same Baltimore tinshop whose tiny skirt mark appears on 1920s Hoffmann-Hayman **H and H Blend** round tins (see site tin-marking post). Project reference photograph of a printed card, not a tin in the collection. Detail crop of newspaper halftone captioned Cutout display of H and H Crystalvac Coffee — San Antonio Express-News, 6 June 1932, page 7 (embedded PDF scan); documents 1932 launch merchandising art, not the physical standee Black-and-white interior photograph, Hoffmann & Hayman Coffee Co. Delaware Street plant — dense crowd at the **December 1932** grand-opening week (GW Mitchell Construction archive image shared with the project). High industrial ceiling with beams; wall sign reading **CUP TESTING DEPT.** with arrow; guests in winter coats and hats hold small cups and saucers; white-uniformed staff at a serving counter at right. Reference documentation only — not an accessioned original negative in the museum files. **iPhone photograph** **29 April 2017** — **clear** one-pound **H and H Blend Coffee** **Crystalvac** jar with **Crystalvac** script emboss on the shoulder, dark metal screw lid, and intact paper label reading **ONE POUND NET WEIGHT**, **H AND H BLEND Coffee**, **MEDIUM GROUND**, **HOFFMANN-HAYMAN COFFEE CO., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS**, **STEEL CUT 100% PURE**, on a folding show table beside other glass — **Mac Johanson’s display** at the **Three Rivers Glass Show**, **Gurwitz Community Center**; same **Austin antique-shop** jar earlier documented in the **October 2016** forwarded Corpus Christi collector snapshot — **reference photograph**, physical jar **not** in the San Antonio museum collection **iPhone photograph** of a **newspaper clipping** from ***The Progress*** (**Three Rivers, Texas**) — **below the fold** on the **front page**, headline **GLASS SHOW THIS WEEKEND**, **Contributed photo** showing **amber** and **clear** one-pound **H and H Blend** **Crystalvac** jars side by side; adjacent article summarizes **Hoffmann-Hayman** **1932** vacuum-pack jars from **Three Rivers Glass Co.**, **1937** Ball Bros. sale, weekend hours at **Gurwitz Community Center** (**104 N. Harborth Ave.**), **$5** admission, and **Grace Armantrout Museum** contact — the **clear labeled jar** is the **Mac Johanson / Austin** specimen — **press documentation**, **not** an object in the San Antonio museum collection One-pound H and H Blend Coffee Crystalvac jars in clear and amber glass with full paper labels, Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. San Antonio — from the Mac Johanson collection Three H and H products staged together — a clear-glass Crystalvac drip-grind coffee jar with torn paper label, a 3 oz H and H Tea (Orange Pekoe and Pekoe) cardboard box, and a one-pound H and H High Grade Vacuum Packed Coffee keywind tin H and H Sign Texas Girl Sign Texas Girl Coffee framed poster Texas Girl Coffee framed tin sign — cream block letters on a magenta field, photo courtesy Darin Grimsley, found in Kansas Hoffmann-Hayman Postcard 1936 Texas Centennial Blue Bonnet seed packet — front, Compliments Sam Houston & Texas Girl Coffees 1936 Texas Centennial Blue Bonnet seed packet — back A 1936 Texas Blue Bonnet Centennial seed packet ('Compliments Sam Houston · Texas Girl Coffees · Honoring the Texas Centennial') beside a small cream-and-red H and H Coffee paper sampler cup printed 'Ask Your Grocer for H and H Coffee', staged in front of H and H Blend and Sam Houston coffee tins H and H PUZZLER cardboard box lid (copyright 1927, Frederick E. Aaron) — Hoffmann-Hayman promotional sliding-block puzzle; printed diagram labels H and H Products, H and H Coffee, H and H Spices and Extracts, H and H Tea, Quality, All Texas Homes, All Texas Stores, Sam Houston Coffee, Texas Girl Coffee; footer HOFFMANN-HAYMAN COFFEE COMPANY, 601 DELAWARE STREET, SAN ANTONIO - TEXAS, PRICE 25 Cents — project photograph 2 May 2015 (same 1927 premium form as the Hoffmann-Hayman Puzzler collection write-up) Opened Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company brochure or price-list spread on wood surface — left panel: TEAS header, red H and H banner with We Roast It Others Praise It, blue-toned Delaware Street factory illustration, Established 1904 / A Square Deal Here Or No Deal, Independently owned and operated by born Texans; right panel: Quality Products Price List header, COFFEE column with H and H Brand Coffee jar, Sam Houston and Texas Girl tins, Border Coffee and additional branded cans, We Roast It Others Praise It ribbon, footer HOFFMANN-HAYMAN COFFEE CO., 601 DELAWARE ST., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — scene shows tops of photographer shoes at frame edge; image derived from 3 July 2015 capture upscaled 2x for reference legibility (Firefly Upscaler) Overhead project photograph 3 July 2015 on wood — left: cast leaf-shaped metal ashtray premium with embossed words Eat, Smoke, Drink, H and H, Coffee in a ring around the bowl; right: open 1927 H and H Puzzler game box, lid printed Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company, 601 Delaware Street, San Antonio, Texas, price 25 cents, copyright 1927, with wooden sliding blocks showing Texas Girl Coffee, San Antonio Coffee, H and H Coffee, H and H Spices and Extracts, H and H Products — companion field shot to the gallery still of the box lid alone Burlap green-coffee sack on weathered wood planks — circular exporter stamp reading Cafe Peru and Co and N.B. Tealdo and Co around large green serif initials LX; bold PRODUCT OF PERU legend; smaller Lima Peru markings including Sacco Lazo Sudamericana — Peruvian import sack form typical of raw coffee shipped to U.S. roasters (not Hoffmann-Hayman printed); project photograph 3 July 2015 for sourcing context Burlap green-coffee sack on dark vertical wood planks — bold printed lines PRODUCT OF GUATEMALA; 1939 / 1940; 132 LBS ESP BRTO (weight and crop-era markings); faint red rule across sack — import sack form for Central American green coffee (not Hoffmann-Hayman lettered); project photograph 3 July 2015 for roaster sourcing context, another partial burlap sack at lower edge of frame Small cream **paper sampler cup** with **red** rules and display type — **ASK YOUR GROCER** / **FOR** / large **H AND H** with small **AND** between the capitals and **COFFEE** — Hoffmann-Hayman retail ephemera photographed **3 July 2015** on wood against a white wall; **project reference** shot of a disposable sampling form, **not** catalogued as an accessioned museum object in this frame. Two upright **paper retail coffee bags** side by side on a light surface, **3 July 2015** — **left:** **Texas Girl coffee**, **Family Size — 2 LBS. NET**, pink / black / yellow graphic with circular portrait, **Regular grind for percolator or boiling**, fine print on chinaware offer; **right:** **H and H** one-pound bag in **red, white, and blue**, **H-H Master Chef** strip at top, large **H and H** lockup on the face, yellow band **NUEVO TOSTADO SABOR**, blue footer **REGULAR GRIND COFFEE**, **ONE POUND NET WT.**, **Continental Coffee Company** — **project reference** photograph of Hoffmann-Hayman–line **bag** forms; **not** presented as an accessioned museum object in this frame. Promotional parade auto topped with an H and H Blend Coffee cube, Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. San Antonio Two men posed beside a Texas Girl Coffee delivery truck Crew posed beside H and H Coffee delivery trucks (location and date unknown) Gus P. Menger and son Albert tasting coffee at a cupping table with H and H Coffee silos in the background — San Antonio Light Photograph Collection, UTSA Libraries Special Collections Framed formal studio portrait, black-and-white, of an elderly heavy-set gentleman with wispy white hair combed back, silver round wire-rimmed spectacles, a white pocket square, white dress shirt and patterned dark tie under a dark suit — holding a small white porcelain cupping cup near his face in his right hand and a black-handled cupping spoon in his left, looking down at a large cascading mound of whole roasted coffee beans on a polished dark bench with the cast-iron base of a shop-counter sample grinder (ring-pull catch drawer visible) at lower left, against a continuous studio backdrop — double-matted in cream with a gold inner accent in a dark-stained wood frame with gold-leaf trim, photographed hanging on a cream-painted stucco wall on 2019-12-04; subject tentatively identified as Gus P. Menger of Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. in later life (identification not yet confirmed) Black-and-white photographic print of a silver-haired middle-aged man in a light work shirt with rolled sleeves, a tattoo on his right forearm, and a wedding band, holding a sample pan of freshly-roasted coffee beans in his left hand and gesturing with his right hand toward a second figure just outside the frame — standing in front of a large patinated commercial drum coffee roaster with raised cast lettering reading 'ROASTER' and 'PAT.' and a spoked cast hand-wheel on the feed door, beans visible in the feed hopper at upper left; the print itself rests on a stack of other yellow-tone photographic prints, documented 2019-08-19 from a stack that included H and H Coffee–branded prints on the adjoining sheets Black-and-white street photograph of a belt peddler in a felt hat leaning against a late-1920s Ford sedan on a San Antonio sidewalk, an armful of tooled leather belts draped over one arm, with storefront signs behind him reading 'Oriental Cafe and Bar — Serving H&H Coffee' and 'H & H Coffee' alongside a Pearl Beer sign Typewritten Hoffmann-Hayman PACKAGE COFFEE wholesale price sheet dated MAR 2 1942 — Delivered Prices Subject To Change Without Notice; sections for H AND H Coffee (1 lb bags and Vac Jars, Regular or Drip Grind), SAN ANTONIO Coffee (bags, 1 lb cans with cup-and-saucer premium, 3 lb Vac Jars), TEXAS GIRL Coffee through 3 lb buckets; ANITA Coffee with promotional lines and red pencil notes; TEXCO and BIG VALUE; CAFE COFFEES including 1 lb H and H Cafe Spec, 1 lb and jar lines for M. Chef (Master Chef) Blends A and B; footer JOBBER DISCOUNT 12% TRADE, 2% CASH DISCOUNT 10 DAYS (circled in red pencil); aged paper with fold crease, staple at top, three-hole punch at left — project photograph 3 July 2015 of the March 1942 document Typewritten Hoffmann-Hayman bulk wholesale sheet dated MAR 2 1942 — header FOR TEXAS ONLY and SPECIAL BULK ROASTED COFFEE F.O.B. SAN ANTONIO LESS 2 PERCENT; per-pound pricing in 100-pound bags for Economy Blend Cereal and Coffee, Good Rio, Big Gum, Arrow Peaberry, Standard Peaberry, Perfection Peaberry, Blue Bird; surcharges for cotton bags and drums; specialty lines Good Value, Anita Peaberry Blend, O.S.T. Fancy Santos Peaberry in galvanized pail or blue drum; footer To Sell At Delivered Price Add Freight To Shipping Point and Prices Subject To Change Without Notice; three-hole punch at left, center fold — companion to package retail sheet — project photograph 3 July 2015 Black-and-white photograph **1949** — **Exterior of Azteca Cafe**, San Antonio, Texas (**General Photograph Collection**, UTSA Digital Collections — collection **p9020coll008**, item **9664**, `digital.utsa.edu`): small street-front cafe with painted signs including **tacos de barbacoa**, **H and H coffee**, and **beer** (per UTSA item metadata); **700×386** institutional JPEG from ContentDM API — **not in the museum collection** Black-and-white documentary photograph, in the manner of Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information work of the early 1940s, of a rural South Texas Tejano general-store porch — an older mustachioed gentleman in a pale fedora, dark jacket, white shirt, and light trousers sits leaning against a wooden porch post with his left leg crossed over his right; the storefront behind him is densely papered with early-1940s commercial signage including, from left to right, porcelain-enamel 'GARRETT'S Richer and Milder SNUFF' and 'HONEST Mild and Mellow SNUFF' signs and two tall RC Cola bottle-shaped advertising cutouts mounted on porch posts, a hand-lettered Spanish-language 'ESPAUDA Health Club / Conserve su...' window sign, window-display items including cardboard cutouts and a 'LOOK 25¢' magazine, through the door-glass 'UNION LEADER' and 'UNION STANDARD' tobacco posters with Chesterfield and Bugler tobacco ads and a 'RIPPLE' sign, an 'Ask for the best / TINSLEY'S / NATURAL LEAF' tobacco sign on the low porch railing, and — mounted squarely on the porch railing facing the street — a large dark-ground porcelain-enamel **'H AND H COFFEE'** sign whose big white serif 'H AND H' type matches the other H and H Coffee porcelain signs in the project; at the right edge a gravity-feed visible gasoline pump with a small framed photograph affixed to its tank stands in front of the rear fender and running board of a late-1930s automobile, and at the left edge a Spanish-language movie poster reading 'ALAMO / SABADO - DOMINGO / MUJER MEXICANA / ELVA SALCEDO / J.J. MARTINEZ CASADO / MARGARITA CORTES' — the 1942 Miguel Contreras Torres film, dating this photograph to 1942 or shortly after Black-and-white photograph — **Mi Tierra Cafe and Bakery**, **218 Produce Row**, San Antonio, Texas (**Ray Howell Photograph Collection**, UTSA Digital Collections — collection **p9020coll4**, item **412**): street view with **vehicles** parked at the cafe; **Master Chef Coffee** (H and H hotel-and-restaurant trade brand) **signage** on the Mi Tierra building; at right, corner of **Produce Row** and **S. San Saba Street**, the former entrance to **Tony's Wholesale Grocery and Produce Company** (per UTSA item description; finding aid text quotes the sign as 'Master **Chief**' Coffee — treat as the **Master Chef** line); **700×563** institutional JPEG from ContentDM API — **not in the museum collection** Color photograph documented 2024-01-23 at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, in the exhibit 'Mi Cultura — Bringing Shadows Into the Light: The Photography of Al Rendón' (a 50-year retrospective of San Antonio Tejano cultural photographer Al Rendón, curated by Bruce Shackelford and Katherine Nelson Hall, on view 2 September 2023 – 27 May 2024 in the South Texas Heritage Center as part of the 2023 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE festival), of a vertical 'Nuestra Cultura · 75 Años' lanyard pass — almost certainly Al Rendón's own working press pass from Mi Tierra Cafe & Bakery's September 2016 75th-anniversary celebration, displayed in the exhibit's run of personal press passes used throughout Rendón's career — hanging by its black lanyard from a silver alligator-style metal clip against a pale exhibit wall, with the corner of an adjacent striped exhibit element just visible at right; the card carries a sepia-and-burgundy stylized portrait treatment of the same painted Cortez-family / Mi Tierra storefront imagery already documented in the project (the painted portrait of Pedro and Cruz Cortez published in Edible San Antonio Aug/Sep 2016 and used at the 2016 La Familia Cortez 75th-anniversary celebration), here showing in the foreground head-and-shoulders portraits of Cruz Cortez wearing a hat with two pink-and-yellow flower decorations and a brooch on her dark coat and Pedro Cortez in a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie, against a backdrop assembled from the cafe's historical signage including (upper left) a 'MI TIERRA / CAFE / TACOS / MENUDO' block sign, (left of center) a 'Tierra CAFE / and BAKERY / WE SPECIALIZE IN / MEXICAN FOOD' sign panel, (center) a small inset portrait of an older woman in a hat or kerchief (probably Doña Cruz Cortez at the cafe), (center right) a small 'Mi Tierra / [EM]PANADAS' bakery reference, and (upper right) a vertical painted wall sign on a tile-and-stucco wall reading **'MASTER / CHEF / COFFEE'** in three stacked lines — Master Chef being Hoffmann-Hayman's hotel-and-restaurant trade brand, on Mi Tierra's storefront since the 1950s; 'Nuestra Cultura' in cream script and '75 Años' in cream below cap the bottom of the card; not in the museum collection Color photograph **15 October 2019** in the **Witte Museum** collections / study space, San Antonio — white protective foam with a rectangular **H and H Blend Coffee** one-pound **Medium Ground** tin (navy, cream, and red, Roasted and Packed by **Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co., San Antonio, Texas**), a smaller **Light Housekeepers Size** **half-pound** H and H Blend tin of the same design family, a large **Family Size** cylindrical H and H tin in red and blue with yellow sunburst visible behind, and at the right edge a **Texas Girl** coffee tin; in the lower-left foreground, the **bottom** of a dark **cast leaf-form ashtray** issued as a **coupon premium** (customers mailed in **H and H** coupons to earn it), showing embossed **'EAT'** / **'SMOKE'** / **'DRINK'** / **'H & H'** / **'COFFEE'** — the same object as the dedicated **KS 193** frame in the 2019 visit post, here with a **white accession string tag**; industrial metal shelving in soft focus behind; **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — **Border Premium Coffee** **four-pound** cylindrical pail, red with black and silver-foil effect graphics: large **'BORDER'** banner, **cup and saucer** illustration, **'CONTENTS 4 LBS. NET WGT.'**, **'PURE COFFEE'**, **'PREMIUM'** / **'COFFEE'** in stacked banners, wire **bail handle** and flat dark lid, wear and vertical scuff; white foam, Witte study setting — the Border cup-and-saucer **premium** line for Hoffmann-Hayman; **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — grouped **H and H Blend** packaging on white foam: **three-pound** rectangular tin with top closure and accession string, a **cylindrical** tin with **embossed gold lid** reading **'AN H AND H PRODUCT'** and **'We Roast It Others Praise It'**, a smaller **cylindrical** tin with **'H AND H BLEND COFFEE'**, **'VACUUM PACKED'**, **'STEEL CUT 100% PURE'**, and roaster mark for **Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. San Antonio, Texas**; a **brick** of coffee in **sealed clear archival wrap** on tissue; a **Texas Girl** pack edge at left — Witte **institutional** staging, **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — upright **one-pound** **Texas Girl** paper **bag**, pink, black, and yellow, **'1 LB. NET'**, **'H AND H COFFEE CO., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS'**, circular portrait in yellow scalloped frame, **'Texas Girl'** / **'BRAND'** on black band, **'ALL-PURPOSE' GROUND FOR ALL BREWING METHODS'**, **'COFFEE'** and **'HIGH GRADE - FRESH ROASTED'**; top flap **FREE COUPON**; edge wear, white foam, shelving behind — **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — **Texas Girl** 1 lb bag (same graphic system as the single-bag frame) as the **center** of a wider foam staging: **H and H Blend** half-pound **'LIGHT HOUSEKEEPERS SIZE'** square tin, large **'VACUUM PACKED'** / **'QUALITY'** cylindrical, tall rectangular **'ROASTED' … Hoffmann'** tin at right — contextual **group** shot from the same **Witte** presentation; **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — **Border Premium Coffee** pail, **'CONTENTS 3 LBS. NET WGT.'**, same **cup and saucer** and **'BORDER'** / **'PREMIUM COFFEE'** layout as the four-pound sister frame; wire bail, weathered body with vertical scratch, flat lid — **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — cylindrical **three-pound** pail, wire bail, red upper field and black lower field: **'ANITA'** / **'BRAND'** in large block letters, western portrait of a woman in a **pale hat** with small star, **'STAR OF THE RANCH'**, **'PEABERRY BLEND'**, **'COFFEE'**, **'THREE POUNDS NET'**; Hoffmann-Hayman-era Western product line in the **Witte** presentation — **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — **Sam Houston Brand Coffee** **four-pound** pail, gold body where bare, full paper label: cream **'Sam Houston'** script, octagonal **portrait** of Sam Houston, **'FOUR POUNDS'** / **'NET WEIGHT'**, **'100% PURE'**, **'We Roast It'** / **'Others Praise It'** flanking **'COFFEE'**, footer **'Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. San Antonio, Texas'**; handwritten **'1.05'** on label; label tear and wear, wire handle — **not in the project’s museum collection** Color photograph **15 October 2019** — **bottom** of a **cast leaf-form ashtray** issued as a **premium** for **H and H coupon** redemptions (customers mailed in coupons to receive the piece): stacked embossed capitals on the **base** read **'EAT'** / **'SMOKE'** / **'DRINK'** / **'H & H'** / **'COFFEE'**; **Witte** accession **'KS 193'** on oval sticker and large rectangular string tag; white foam — same **coupon premium** type as other packaged-goods loyalty offers of the period; **not in the project’s museum collection** Studio product photograph — Bolner's Fiesta Brand Extra Fancy 16 Mesh Black Pepper, net wt. 8 oz (227 g), clear plastic bottle with white shaker cap; label with Fiesta folklórico logo, confetti border, Bolner's Fiesta Products Inc. San Antonio; **not** Hoffmann–Hayman merchandise — documents retail **16 mesh** black pepper line discussed in context of reported reuse of H and H industrial grinding equipment at Fiesta (see blog [Bolner grinder post]({{ site.baseurl }}/bolner-fiesta-h-and-h-coffee-grinder-1971/)); project photo **15 January 2024** (`10279-20240115.jpg`) Black lacquer advertising record for H and H Coffee Co., Master Chef Coffee, cut by Broggi Advertising Agency of San Antonio in August 1961, shown on a turntable mid-play — yellow label marked 78 RPM with four radio spots A-17-61 through A-20-61 Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Express-News** (**Sunday 25 August 1907**, page 5) — headline **Big Coffee Roasting Plant Established in San Antonio** with article column(s) on local coffee manufacturing; clip ties to early Hoffmann-Hayman / San Antonio coffee-industry context (plant expansion stories of the period). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Wednesday 13 August 1913**, page 12) — headline **Fire Damages Tea and Coffee Plant** covering fire damage at a San Antonio tea/coffee works (period reporting adjacent to Hoffmann-Hayman factory coverage). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Sunday 14 August 1921**, page 41) — headline **Hoffmann-Hayman Company Pioneer Concern of Kind** profiling the Hoffmann-Hayman coffee business and its place among local manufacturers. Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Sunday 5 November 1922**, page 20) — display advertisement labeled **H and H Ad** for Hoffmann-Hayman / **H and H** branded lines on the Light page. Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Sunday 28 November 1926**, page 4) — headline **The Largest Coffee Plant...** with article on scale of local coffee manufacturing (Hoffmann-Hayman Delaware Street plant era). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Thursday 7 April 1927**, page 13) — coverage **H and H Coffee At Food Show** naming **H and H** / Hoffmann-Hayman participation in a food exposition. Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Express-News** (**Wednesday 6 February 1929**, page 12) — piece **A complement to your finest dinner** (period meal/coffee advertising context for Hoffmann-Hayman lines). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **The News** (San Antonio, **Thursday 7 January 1932**, page 24) — headline **Fire Damages Tucker Coffee Plant 2D Time** on repeat fire damage at Tucker Coffee (San Antonio coffee industry context alongside Hoffmann-Hayman plant reporting). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Express-News** (**Sunday 23 July 1933**, page 5) — headline **San Antonio Has Ideal Manufacturing Conditions** with reporting on local industry advantages (includes Hoffmann-Hayman / manufacturing context). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Saturday 27 February 1937**, page 9) — headline **Fire Sweeps Coffee Plant** on a major coffee-plant fire (period parallel to Hoffmann-Hayman factory news). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Thursday 9 June 1938**, page 28) — labeled **Coffee Bag Ad** showing period printed advertisement for bagged coffee (Hoffmann-Hayman / trade advertising context). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Express-News** (**Sunday 19 September 1954**, page 72) — feature **The Story of Coffee** with general coffee history / industry discussion (postwar Hoffmann-Hayman market context). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Saturday 12 July 1958**, page 6) — promotion **Giant Iced Tea Glasses Are Premuim with H & H Items** tying a glassware premium to **H & H** packaged purchases (Hoffmann-Hayman coupon/premium advertising). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Newspapers.com PDF export of **San Antonio Light** (**Sunday 27 September 1959**, page 105) — headline **Top Coffee Plant in SA** profiling a leading San Antonio coffee roasting facility (compare to Hoffmann-Hayman plant coverage). Reference documentation only — not an object in the project collection. Screen-capture PDF (**30 January 2017**) of **G.W. Mitchell** company blog post **Hoffmann & Hayman Coffee Co.: Rising and shining in tough times** (Flashback Fridays) — page 1 shows site chrome, headline, and opening paragraphs on the **1932** Hoffmann-Hayman factory project and company history (**William R. Hoffman**, **Hayman** merger, growth through the 1920s–30s). First page of a three-page save; reference documentation from the general contractor’s public history series — not an accessioned artifact in the museum collection.
Reference photographs of H and H items found online — not in our collection