Today, we added a 1.5oz H and H Brand Spices Allspice Tin. We now have three spice tins in the collection.
Coffee companies at that time often used their factory machinery to also roast, grind, and package spice, tea, cocoa, and extracts.
A linen-era ‘Skyline of San Antonio’ postcard credited to Summerville Photo — the same San Antonio studio behind H&H’s 1929 employee billboard panorama.
A Curteich linen postcard of the San Antonio River, published by Weiner News Co. — period River Walk context for the city H&H called home.
A second sitting with the Draves family, and the deer-mount patent we’d only heard about finally has a number: Edward W. Menger’s US 2,003,896, ‘Horn Mount’ ...
Tim Draves sent corrections that resolved a generation: the H&H Mengers are grandchildren — not great-grandchildren — of Menger Hotel founder William A. ...
