Steep downward-looking photograph across a weathered pale-grey sidewalk slab on **Delaware Street beside the Hoffmann-Hayman factory entrance gate** — coarse drag **horizontal striations** across the floated concrete lift, lower edge bordering a grassy verge scattered with browned leaves where small yellow composite wildflowers poke through (**17 December 2014**, **iPhone 5**) — inscribed into the hardened surface toward the slab **margin** (wet-concrete handwriting from when the pavement was poured or struck) reads **ADOLPH** then a spaced gap followed by **M.** capped with **serif-ish block capitals**, the letter grooves sunk and edged with grime so the name reads charcoal-dark against smoother paste — read here as **Adolph Menger**, of the **Menger–Hoffmann** family lineage at the center of Hoffmann-Hayman and this plant (see **[People]({{ site.baseurl }}/people/)**); **[Companion JESSE inscription on the same walk](/assets/images/gallery/2014-12-17-delaware-street-sidewalk-jesse-wet-concrete-inscription.jpg)** the same **17 December 2014** outing; **street-front documentation** paired in **this gallery** with the **[G — M — A pavement survey marker](/assets/images/gallery/factory-delaware-street-survey-marker.jpg)** on the **same Delaware curb**, photographed **about a decade later**
Steep downward-looking photograph across a weathered pale-grey sidewalk slab on **Delaware Street beside the Hoffmann-Hayman factory entrance gate** — coarse drag **horizontal striations** across the floated concrete lift, lower edge bordering a grassy verge scattered with browned leaves where small yellow composite wildflowers poke through (**17 December 2014**, **iPhone 5**) — inscribed into the hardened surface toward the slab **margin** (wet-concrete handwriting from when the pavement was poured or struck) reads **ADOLPH** then a spaced gap followed by **M.** capped with **serif-ish block capitals**, the letter grooves sunk and edged with grime so the name reads charcoal-dark against smoother paste — read here as **Adolph Menger**, of the **Menger–Hoffmann** family lineage at the center of Hoffmann-Hayman and this plant (see **[People]({{ site.baseurl }}/people/)**); **[Companion JESSE inscription on the same walk](/assets/images/gallery/2014-12-17-delaware-street-sidewalk-jesse-wet-concrete-inscription.jpg)** the same **17 December 2014** outing; **street-front documentation** paired in **this gallery** with the **[G — M — A pavement survey marker](/assets/images/gallery/factory-delaware-street-survey-marker.jpg)** on the **same Delaware curb**, photographed **about a decade later**
Catalog ID
HH-FACT-2014-0002
Gallery
Factory