New York City, man drinking coffee at a one cent coffee stand, sign on stand reads: 'The Greater New York Philanthropic Society, The One Cent Coffee Stands', New York, circa 1900s.

The Civil War, Life in Camp, Upset His Coffee, souvenir card showing the daily life of Union soldiers on the front, in the camp and on furlough, chromolithograph by Winslow Homer, circa 1864.

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Coffee, original caption: 'Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and 35 million dollars for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks 'not worth the paper they are printed on', Germany, circa 1920s.

Scenes of Los Angeles, the Koffee Pot, an example of fantasy architecture that mirrors the function of the building. Now abandoned, originally called the Hot Cha, built in 1932, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Long Beach, California, 2005.

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Scenes of Los Angeles, the original faux-log cabin among a chain of sixty-two White Log Coffee Shops opened by Kenneth Bemis. Built in 1932, now a hamburger shop, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Hill Street, California, 2005.