A very special factory tour — Menger family
We were able to give a very special visitor a tour of the factory—someone who had not been there since she was a child. She is the granddaughter of Rudolph M...
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St. Mary’s Bulletin, February 1936 — H and H Crystalvac ad
The Bulletin at St. Mary’s in San Antonio is still published; this copy is Volume 13, Number 1, February 1936—cream paper, Gothic titling, church tower and c...
Hoffmann’s Old Time Blended Coffee (Milwaukee)
This one-pound tin from eBay is not San Antonio H and H stock.
Interwar sales report books from the office ceiling
While pulling network cable above the ground-floor office, we found three staple-bound books of sales report forms tucked between boards and the 1932 stucco ...
Texas Girl and H and H one-pound shop bags
We met Albert, a San Antonio picker, over coffee and talked through local history, metal detecting, and what turns up in shops. Six months earlier he had pul...
H and H Brand Spices ginger, 1½ oz
We added another H and H Brand Spices tin: ginger at 1½ ounces net, photographed here beside the one-ounce cinnamon tin from July 2014 so the two shaker styl...
Small H and H Crystalvac with wire-and-wood holder
From KimmysKicks on Etsy we bought a Crystalvac-line jar from Bowie, Texas.
Master Chef Regular Grind one-pound tin
We bought this red lithographed Master Chef Regular Grind can from BellaEclectic2008 on Etsy; the seller was in San Antonio. The body came without its keywin...