H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. founded 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Tight crop on H & H Orange Pekoe Tea panel with purity banner and introductory offer, 13 Dec 1914 Express-News page 44

This isolate pulls one vertical slice from the large Morrison Coffee halftone montage on page 44: a dark trade dress block carrying “H & H” display type with “TEA” and “ORANGE PEKOE” on the face, capped by a banner reading “ALL GOODS PACKED UNDER THIS BRAND ARE GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE.” Below, “Special Introductory Offer” copy bundles H & H Coffee language with black pepper, vanilla extract, tea, and two imported cups and saucers, under a bold “55c Value for Only 29c” price scream.

For Hoffmann–Hayman storytelling, the frame matters because it documents early retail “H & H” labeling inside Morrison’s San Antonio portfolio—the same 1914 spread brand pages already cite for Wesco, Texco, Misa, and Broncho pack silhouettes. Seeing H & H on tea here anchors the house mark as a multi-category Morrison line before the 1917 merger narrative that folded Morrison retail into Hoffmann-Hayman; it complements the full-page facsimile post rather than replacing it.

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ALL GOODS PACKED UNDER THIS BRAND ARE GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE
… H & H … TEA … ORANGE PEKOE …
Special Introductory Offer … H & H COFFEE … BLACK PEPPER — VANILLA EXTRACT — TEA AND TWO IMPORTED CUPS AND SAUCERS … 55c Value for Only 29c

Verbatim line breaks and secondary columns on page 44: see the full clipping post.

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