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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0244
CATEGORY   Business, Wholesale
SUBCATEGORY   Coffee company
TITLE   Nueces Coffee Company
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of Nueces Coffee Company in Corpus Christi, Texas. Eight men and a young boy stand in a large room with stacked cans of Nu-Port coffee behind them. The boy holds a can of coffee in his hands. Bins of coffee beans hang from the ceiling. A cordboard box on the table in front of the men reads: "Nueces Coffee. It's [sic] Flavor Wins Favor." Nueces Coffee Company was owned by the Yarborough brothers. The company sold Yarborough, Nu-Port, Gulf Coast, and Cafe Tampico coffees.
SUBJECT   Coffee industry. (lcsh)
Employees. (lctgm)
Industrial facilities. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
Storage facilities. (lctgm)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)
Warehouses. (lcsh)
Wholesale trade. (lcsh)