Close-up looking straight down at a small zinc/galvanized-steel surveyor's pavement marker driven into the asphalt-and-aggregate pavement of Delaware Street directly in front of the entry gate to the Hoffmann-Hayman factory, photographed on 23 December 2024 — a domed disk roughly the size of a US quarter sitting in a small crater of broken-out concrete and loose gray gravel, set into a pin grouted through the pavement, with a long vertical crack in the pavement running up through the marker's setting and continuing top to bottom through the surrounding aggregate; the face of the cap carries a stamped pattern of short radial tick marks emanating from a central center-punch dimple and three legible stamped letters arranged around the perimeter reading 'M' near the top, an 'A' (rendered as a triangular form, the crossbar faint) on the right, and a 'G' (a curled half-circle character) at the lower-left — most legibly read as 'G — M — A', a surveyor's initials, firm code, or agency stamp whose specific attribution is not yet identified; the marker sits on Delaware Street at the same Delaware-and-Southern-Pacific-tracks address recorded in the 1932 San Antonio Sunday Light feature on the new Hoffmann-Hayman plant ([documented in the Collection gallery](/sunday-light-july-1932-factory-article-reprint/)), a 21st-century property/survey artifact at the same street boundary the 1932 paper named when the factory was being built
Close-up looking straight down at a small zinc/galvanized-steel surveyor's pavement marker driven into the asphalt-and-aggregate pavement of Delaware Street directly in front of the entry gate to the Hoffmann-Hayman factory, photographed on 23 December 2024 — a domed disk roughly the size of a US quarter sitting in a small crater of broken-out concrete and loose gray gravel, set into a pin grouted through the pavement, with a long vertical crack in the pavement running up through the marker's setting and continuing top to bottom through the surrounding aggregate; the face of the cap carries a stamped pattern of short radial tick marks emanating from a central center-punch dimple and three legible stamped letters arranged around the perimeter reading 'M' near the top, an 'A' (rendered as a triangular form, the crossbar faint) on the right, and a 'G' (a curled half-circle character) at the lower-left — most legibly read as 'G — M — A', a surveyor's initials, firm code, or agency stamp whose specific attribution is not yet identified; the marker sits on Delaware Street at the same Delaware-and-Southern-Pacific-tracks address recorded in the 1932 San Antonio Sunday Light feature on the new Hoffmann-Hayman plant ([documented in the Collection gallery](/sunday-light-july-1932-factory-article-reprint/)), a 21st-century property/survey artifact at the same street boundary the 1932 paper named when the factory was being built
Catalog ID
HH-FACT-0000-0007
Gallery
Factory