H and H Coffee

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

Jail Coffee (1959)

Year: 1959 · PDF: assets/pdfs/1959-jail-coffee.pdf

A 14-page document from 1959 (precise title, author, and publisher pending curator review of the PDF — text not extractable; image-only scan). Title “Jail Coffee” suggests an institutional-supply or prison-system coffee report or analysis.

Relevance to H&H

Potentially relevant — verify by hand. H&H operated extensively in the cafe-trade and institutional-supply channel documented in the Master Chef brand record:

  • The 1942 H&H Wholesale Price Sheets list 25-lb sacks and bulk formats appropriate for institutional accounts (cafes, hotels, hospitals, schools, prisons).
  • Master Chef’s documented customers include cafe-trade accounts like Mi Tierra Cafe (San Antonio Market Square) from at least 1951.
  • A 1959 institutional-coffee monograph titled “Jail Coffee” could be a market-dynamics study, an industry critique, or a specific case study. If H&H is named as a Texas-state institutional supplier, the document would extend our institutional-channel evidence considerably.

Caveat: The PDF is image-only (no text layer); a curator must read the 14 pages by hand or run OCR to verify whether the document mentions H&H, San Antonio firms, or Texas correctional-system coffee supply.

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