Collections Item Detail

Can: Kaffee-Hag Coffee. Regular Grind. General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House), Hoboken. 1lb. N.d., ca. 1943-1950.

Object/Artifact

DescriptionCan: Kaffee-Hag Coffee. General Foods Corporation, Hoboken, N.J. Regular Grind. One pound. No date, circa 1940-1950. Lithographed metal. Original contents not present. Ground coffee, 97% caffeine free. Brand name on front as Kaffee Hag and with hyphen on other panels. A decaffeinated coffee processed and packed at Maxwell House Coffee plant in Hoboken. The coffee in this can was regular grind. Text on a back panel: Use the new Drip Grind Kaffee-Hag for drip coffee.

Entry/Object ID

2014.013.0120

Acquisition

Accession

2014.013

Source or Donor

Lukacs, Claire

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.

Made/Created

Date made

1940 - 1950

Notes

Date: 1940-1950

General Notes

Note

Notes: General Foods purchased the Kaffee-Hag brand from Kellogg's in the late 1930s (dates seen are 1937 or 1939.) Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-11-10

front (General Foods Corporation, Hoboken, N.J.)