The Alamo (Mission San Antonio de Valero)

Historic mission and battle site at the east end of Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio. For H&H research, the Alamo appears primarily as civic iconography on company-branded ephemera rather than as a documented roasting or distribution address.

H&H-connected material

Alamo Cook Book (Hoffmann-Hayman imprint, acquisition 2014) — stapled retail recipe booklet with a black silhouette of the Alamo on the front cover, publisher line Published for Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co., San Antonio, Texas, and 50¢ cover price. The back cover is a full advertisement for H and H Blend at 35¢/lb with the tagline Nothing better at any price.

The booklet is first-party H&H marketing ephemera pairing regional landmark imagery with blend pricing — useful for dating undated H&H Blend ads by price anchor.

Open questions

• Publication year of the Alamo Cook Book — no date imprint; compare 35¢/lb anchor to dated newspaper advertising.
• Compiler / sponsoring organization — inside front matter may name a women’s group or civic sponsor (TBD in-hand verification).

See also

• Alamo Plaza — the commercial square fronting the mission; Menger Hotel and early Hoffmann career context
• H and H Blend Coffee — brand on the cookbook back cover
• Hoffmann-Hayman Company — commissioning publisher
• HH-LIB-2014-0003 — Alamo Cook Book — held copy