Greater San Antonio: The City of Destiny and Your Destination

Publisher: Higher Publicity League of Texas, San Antonio · Year: c.1915 (curator estimate; verify via Internet Archive catalog record) · PDF: assets/pdfs/c1915-greater-san-antonio-city-of-destiny.pdf

A 150-page promotional volume produced by the Higher Publicity League of Texas to showcase San Antonio’s commercial, industrial, and civic life. Heavily illustrated booster-press style typical of pre-WWI city promotion. Scanned by the Internet Archive.

Relevance to H&H

Potentially high — pending verification by direct read. No KB pages currently cite Greater San Antonio, but the resource type is exactly the kind of period directory/booster volume where pre-merger and immediate-post-merger H&H mentions might surface. Specifically worth checking:

  1. Industrial-section directory listings. If the book includes a list of San Antonio manufacturers ca.1915, both Hoffmann’s wholesale coffee, tea and spice business (1899–1912 predecessor; Wm. R. Hoffmann) and the chartered Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. (Feb 1912; 1223 W. Commerce by then) are candidates. Period naming was inconsistent — try “Hoffmann,” “Hayman,” “Coffee” entries.
  2. Address verification. The KB tracks five plant addresses through this period (208 E. Commerce 1908 → 1223 W. Commerce 1912 → 307 N. Medina 1916 → 331 Burnett 1923). A 1915 booster volume would land in the 1912–1916 window between the first two and confirm the 1223 W. Commerce occupancy.
  3. Photographs. Booster-press volumes often included downtown streetscape photographs that could capture the H&H signage or buildings.

Open question: the c.1915 year is a curator estimate based on the title and publisher. Internet Archive’s catalog record for the source should give an exact year and printing.

Cited from this KB: (none yet — added 2026-05-20)

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