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Ghost sign — hand-painted H and H on exposed brick solved

April 29, 2026 3 minute read

Artifact Snapshot Era: 1930s Type: sign Brands: H and H Blend Coffee Confidence: medium Evidence and Sources On-s...

A Second, Clean Example of the Founding H and H Coffee Keywind Tin

November 17, 2025 2 minute read

A ‘G — M — A’ Surveyor’s Marker in Delaware Street, in Front of the Factory’s Entry Gate

December 23, 2024 5 minute read

Al Rendón’s ‘Nuestra Cultura · 75 Años’ Press Pass at the Witte — A Master Chef Coffee Sign in the Backdrop

January 23, 2024 9 minute read

Wilhelmina “Minnie” Menger Hoffmann — International Women’s Day

March 8, 2023 less than 1 minute read

H and H Coffee Porcelain Sign on a South Texas Tejano General-Store Porch (ca. 1942)

February 26, 2023 6 minute read

Large-Format Reprint of the 24 July 1932 San Antonio Sunday Light — “Hoffmann-Hayman Plant Modern Throughout”

February 19, 2023 6 minute read

“Marzo 5 – 1952 / Marzo 25 – 1953 / Marzo 18 – 1954” — Three Pencil Dates on the Upstairs East Wall

February 1, 2023 3 minute read

“Agosto 8 – 56” — A Fourth Pencil Date, on a Pan-Formed Concrete Ceiling Joist

February 1, 2023 3 minute read

“Febrero 11 – 53” — A Pencil Date on the Seam Between the Expansion and the Original Plant

February 1, 2023 4 minute read

H and H Coffee Factory South Face at Sunset, 14 March 2021

March 14, 2021 1 minute read

Thunderbirds “America Strong” Flyover from the H and H Factory Roof, 13 May 2020

May 13, 2020 1 minute read

Framed Formal Cupping Portrait — Possibly Gus P. Menger of Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co.

December 4, 2019 2 minute read

Witte Museum — A 2019 Visit to the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Collection

October 15, 2019 3 minute read

Gus P. Menger Press Portrait, Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co.

October 6, 2019 less than 1 minute read

Zintgraff Collection at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures

August 19, 2019 less than 1 minute read

Man Sampling Coffee at a Drum Roaster — Photographic Print from an H and H–Adjacent Stack

August 19, 2019 2 minute read

Hopper Car at the H and H Coffee Factory Siding

April 16, 2019 less than 1 minute read

H and H Coffee Factory — South End and West Flank from the Rail Siding at Dusk, February 2019

February 7, 2019 1 minute read

1934 Hoffmann-Hayman Employees at the “Fragrant…” Billboard

July 12, 2018 1 minute read

Union Foundry Co. — Embossed Cast-Iron Pipe

October 6, 2017 less than 1 minute read

H and H Master Chef — Manufacturers Association Booth

July 7, 2017 less than 1 minute read

Keeping Inventory in the 1940s — Wall Notes

June 17, 2017 less than 1 minute read

Three Rivers Glass Show, April 28-29 2017

April 29, 2017 4 minute read

Oriental Cafe and Bar — “Serving H&H Coffee” Storefront Sign, San Antonio

May 11, 2016 1 minute read

Mi Tierra Café & Master Chef

May 21, 2015 less than 1 minute read

A very special factory tour — Menger family

December 18, 2014 less than 1 minute read

Broncho Coffee & American Pickers

June 28, 2014 2 minute read

Purchased Mike Wolfe’s Art of the Pick photo book and the signed 12×18 Broncho Coffee print from Antique Archaeology / Art of the Pick—the American Pickers r...

Coffee factory interior — Maxwell House cases and jar line

June 27, 2014 1 minute read

East-wing shed — Master Chef plywood and shipping-crate boards in the walls

May 28, 2014 1 minute read

Exploring the metal-roofed shed attached to the east wing of the plant in May 2014, we found interior partition walls built from salvaged sheet goods and cra...

30 successful years for H and H — San Antonio Light, 12 Oct 1934

October 12, 1934 2 minute read

“H & H Coffee Co. Sees ‘32 Banner Year” — The News, 5 Mar 1932

March 5, 1932 2 minute read

“S. A. coffee is shipped by carloads” — San Antonio Light, 28 Oct 1927

October 28, 1927 2 minute read

Trade week visitors invited to Hoffmann–Hayman plant — Express-News, 27 Jul 1924

July 27, 1924 less than 1 minute read

T. J. Menger, credit manager — San Antonio Light, 26 Aug 1923

August 26, 1923 less than 1 minute read