At the end of 1910, Wilhelmina Hoffmann gave birth to her first son, William Hoffmann, Jr. He died within a month, January 1911. Less than a year later, her husband William R. died at the age of 34.
Twenty years later, in 1932, Wilhelmina “Minnie” Menger Hoffmann and her two brothers built a modern coffee factory on the east side of San Antonio, TX.
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A Sam Houston Coffee insulated jug in tall red-painted metal, with a wire bail handle, black wood grip, and a small screw-cap opening set into the domed top....
An H and H “Family Size” keywind tin in the collection’s brightest example of this red-blue-red tri-band design. The body reads “H AND H / FAMILY SIZE” in ou...
An early H and H Tea tin added to the collection. Tea tins are far rarer than H and H coffee tins, so every new example helps fill out the tea side of the pr...
A one-ounce H&H Spices cumin packet that turned up in McAllen, TX. Another small addition to the H and H Spices line, alongside the nutmeg tin and pepper...
