A tight crop on the plant interior halftone from The News (San Antonio) trade-news feature for 3 November 1937, page 46. A young worker in a cap stands beside the newly installed vacuum closing machine, hands resting on a finished can; in the foreground sits a stack of corrugated “H-H COFFEE” shipping cartons.

For Hoffmann-Hayman brand history, this is the canonical 1937 vacuum-pack photograph that the company used to claim “first in Southwest Texas” with vacuum-packed cans. The same closing line was installed in June 1937 for one- and three-pound cans at the 601 Delaware Street plant, and is the technological pivot that produced the H and H Crystalvac glass-jar line and the canned H and H and Sam Houston retail packs documented elsewhere in the 1937 clippings.

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NEWLY INSTALLED VACUUM CLOSING MACHINE USED BY THE H & H COFFEE COMPANY

H-H COFFEE (repeated on shipping cartons)

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• See [H and H Coffee Company first to adopt vacuum-packed can in Southwest Texas — The News, 3 Nov 1937]({{ “/1937-11-03-the-news-h-and-h-vacuum-packed-can-southwest/” | relative_url }}) for full context and verbatim body copy.