Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co.est. 1899 · San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio's Historic Hotels (Peché, 2019) — Arcadia Images of America, signed

David L. Peché; foreword by Henry Cisneros · 2019 · Arcadia Publishing (Images of America series) · ISBN 9781467102476

San Antonio's Historic Hotels by David L. Peché (Arcadia Images of America, 2019) — signed author copy

San Antonio's Historic Hotels — the signed softcover's own cover

Cover above is the signed softcover’s own cover, taken from the research scan of this copy (see Local searchable scan). The unsigned hardcover reading copy is catalogued separately as HH-LIB-2026-0030.

Bibliographic detail

Physical description

Standard Images of America softcover from Arcadia Publishing: glossy paperback, heritage-toned cover, captioned-photograph format with short chapter introductions. Condition: excellent. This copy is a signed presentation copy — see Provenance.

Provenance

Signed and inscribed by the author, David L. Peché, to curator Brett Elmendorf on 13 June 2026, during the Peché family museum tour of 601 Delaware — a signed presentation copy with first-hand provenance. Acquired by donation; accessioned as HH-BOOK-2026-0027. The signed-by-the-author-during-the-tour provenance is the notable feature of this copy. The author’s handwritten inscription — dated 13 June 2026, addressed to the curator, with a warm dedication about saving and sharing San Antonio’s history, signed “David L. Peché” — is on the title page (p. 3 of the research scan). Both the cover (above) and the inscription were captured in the searchable scan of this copy.

Inscription — consent-gated. The inscription is living-person Peché content (David Peché’s own hand and signature). Its image and verbatim text are held — not reproduced or published — pending David’s publication-scope confirmation, the same gate that governs the rest of the Peché material. See the contact record. The fact of a dated, signed presentation inscription is recorded here as provenance; the artifact itself stays inside the git-excluded scan until consent lands.

A separate, unsigned hardcover reading copy bought on Amazon — HH-LIB-2026-0030 (accession HH-BOOK-2026-0030) — is catalogued on its own.

Local searchable scan (research copy)

A full searchable PDF of this signed copy is held locally, git-excluded at raw-archives/library-scans/HH-LIB-2026-0027_san-antonios-historic-hotels_peche-2019_searchable.pdf (132 pp; ~114 MB; ingested from work/inbox/ 2026-06-18). It is the entire copyrighted Arcadia work, so it is never committed or published — kept only as a research convenience for full-text Menger / H&H search. Cite the book (or extracted page images), not the scan. The cover image above is page 1; the consent-gated inscription is page 3 (see Provenance).

Why it matters

Indirect but real H&H relevance, through the Menger Hotel. The book features San Antonio’s historic hotels prominently — including the Menger Hotel, the anchor of the Menger family whose coffee-side branch built and ran the 601 Delaware plant. The Menger Hotel ↔ Menger family ↔ H&H chain is one of the project’s core genealogical threads (the hotel founder William A. Menger is the grandfather of the H&H Menger generation), so a well-illustrated hotel history is useful comparative and contextual material for that line — and for the Menger Hotel coffee thread.

The book’s author is the project’s living Peché-family source, David L. Peché — the same author whose other Arcadia volume, Downtown San Antonio, carries his father Manuel Peché’s first-person H&H delivery-driver account, and who led the 13 June 2026 tour. This copy’s provenance — inscribed during that tour — ties the artifact directly to the relationship that has become a primary oral-history source for the project.

Full-text findings (scan searched 2026-06-18)

A full-text pass of the 132-page searchable scan settles the H&H question:

Net: the book adds no H&H/coffee evidence; its value to the project is Menger Hotel context and modest founder-bio corroboration, not a direct H&H link.

Open questions