Broncho Coffee & American Pickers
Early in the project we had almost no in-house file on the company, so we cast a wide net. We wrote to the Antique Archaeology shop behind American Pickers —...
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Chase & Sanborn coffee factory interior
A wide black-and-white interior of a 1930s- or 40s-style coffee-packing room: a long, serpentine floor conveyor, single file of small glass jar bodies and li...
A Coffee Whistle?
A small, light-wood quail- or call-type slide whistle, probably a mid-century grocery or radio-sponsor freebie: a notched end for the mouth, a square central...
A Crystalvac Jar from H and H Coffee
In hand is a large, clear, three-pound H and H Crystalvac jar: a tall square plan with big corner radii, a dark oxidized metal screw cap with a knurled edge,...
A Visit to Three Rivers
While traveling in South Texas, we made a day stop in Three Rivers, the home of the glassworks that made the square H and H Crystalvac line. Michael David Sm...
Glass Bottles from Three Rivers
Our path to the Three Rivers side of the Hoffmann-Hayman line started in an online write-up of Michael David Smith’s TEXAS GLASS: An Illustrated History of T...
Our First Item for the Collection
The first object we added to the collection is a one-pound H and H Coffee keywind tin — a cylindrical can with a red over navy face, a small coffee-spray ill...
Welcome
The Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. from San Antonio, TX was founded in 1899 and operated until 1972. They roasted H and H Blend, Master Chef, Anita, Border, Bron...