Wilhelmina “Minnie” Menger Hoffmann — International Women’s Day
At the end of 1910, Wilhelmina Hoffmann gave birth to her first son, William Hoffmann, Jr. He died within a month, January 1911. Less than a year later, her ...
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Zintgraff Collection at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures
A visit to the Institute of Texan Cultures at UTSA to pull the H and H holdings from the Zintgraff Collection, a San Antonio commercial-photography archive d...
1934 Hoffmann-Hayman Employees at the “Fragrant…” Billboard
A sepia press photograph of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. office, salesforce, and plant employees — roughly thirty people in three rows — arranged in front ...
Union Foundry Co. — Embossed Cast-Iron Pipe
A short vertical section of white-painted cast iron with UNION FOUNDRY CO. embossed in sans-serif caps, reading down the pipe. The surface is pitted under th...
H and H Master Chef — Manufacturers Association Booth
A black-and-white trade-show scene: two men in suits stand behind a long skirted table stacked with H&H Master Chef Coffee cans, H-H Tea cartons, sample ...
Keeping Inventory in the 1940s — Wall Notes
Handwritten figures and labels on a pale, rough plaster or stone wall: a column of numbers, the word PULVORISA in block capitals (likely “pulverized” grind),...
Mi Tierra Café & Master Chef
The San Antonio Express-News printed an article about Mi Tierra on May 7th, 2015 which included a photo of the front of the café with a large H and H Master ...
A Very Special Tour
We were able to give a very special visitor a tour of the factory who hadn’t been there since she was a child. She is the granddaughter of Rudolph Menger. Ru...
Coffee Factory Vintage Photo
To get an idea of what a coffee factory looked like in the 1930’s, we bought a vintage photo of a Chase & Sanborn Coffee Factory on eBay. There is no da...