Sam Houston Coffee

Sam Houston Coffee is an early Hoffmann-Hayman retail line—named for the Texas hero portrait on the label—sold alongside H and H Blend, Texas Girl, and other house marks from the 1930s press onward (see the Welcome overview and About page). Ads often pitched Perc-O-Drip grind for percolators and drip pots, and Sam Houston shows up on sales forms, napkins, and newspaper display pages with the same graphic vocabulary as the one-pound tins.

Products

1. Sam Houston Coffee — one-pound keywind or flat-top tin (retail example from 2019 in the collection)
2. Larger tins — a paper label in the collection was peeled from a bigger Sam Houston can than one pound (see Sam Houston Coffee label).
3. Insulated jug / serving carafe — Sam Houston Coffee insulated jug (branded Perc-O-Drip artwork matching the label line).
4. Counter ephemera — H and H napkin — Sam Houston & Texas Girl

Options

1. Drip grind
2. Regular grind
3. Pulverized grind
4. Fine grind for glass brewers (blue sticker)

Packaging

Hero retail pieces; full rotation of the 2019 tin is in H and H Sam Houston tin.

1. One-pound tin (Haysville, Kansas acquisition)

1. Paper label (Perc-O-Drip grind, saved from a tin)

1. Alternate one-pound face (also indexed in Reference)

1. Insulated jug

Advertising

Brownsville Herald, Tuesday, April 16, 1935 — display ad with Sam Houston, H and H Blend, and Texas Girl (full page in Sam Houston Coffee label). More clippings live under Newspaper ads.

Postcard layout

Hoffmann-Hayman postcard showing Blend, Sam Houston, Menger Peaberry, and Broncho — same asset used on Broncho and Menger Peaberry for cross-brand context.

Collection posts

• Sam Houston Coffee label — label, Brownsville ad, postcard.
• H and H Sam Houston tin — one-pound tin front, sides, lid, base.
• Sam Houston Coffee insulated jug — serving-ware scale.
• Sam Houston Coffee tin pail — galvanized household pail with the Sam Houston paper label.
• H and H coffee napkin — Sam Houston & Texas Girl corner vignettes.

Factory sales forms listing Sam Houston among other lines: Sales forms.

Related lines

• Texas Girl Coffee · H and H Blend Coffee — frequent co-stars in 1930s advertising.
• Menger Peaberry Coffee · Broncho Coffee — postcard quartet.

Wanted

The master Wanted checklist still tracks Sam Houston Coffee under “Known products” for complete documentation—useful if your tin differs from the 2019 example (other one-pound art states, three-pound tins, bags, or Crystalvac wraps with Sam Houston copy). The site also welcomes:

1. Additional newspaper or magazine ads with legible pricing and grind calls
2. Photographs of diner counters, hotel breakfast rooms, or grocers’ stacks naming Sam Houston

Photo contributions help even when tins are not for sale—see contact.