Details
Contributor J.D. Johnson Co., former owner.
Title The Buick & Sherwood Mfg Co., manufacturers & dealers in sanitary specialties. Detroit, Mich. [graphic].
Publisher Detroit: Calvert Lith. Co
Publisher MI. Detroit. 1895
Date [ca. 1895]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 9 x 16 cm. (3.5 x 6.5 in.)
Description Pictorial envelope containing a vignette bird's eye view showing the plumbing fixtures manufactory at "Cor. Champlain St. & Meldrum Ave."Street and pedestrian traffic, including a streetcar are visible in the foreground. Trains and surrounding cityscape are visible in the background. Buick & Sherwood was established circa 1884 with partners D.D. Buick and William Sherwood. The firm invented several plumbing innovations by the late 1880s and in 1899 was sold to Sanitary Manufacturing Company.
Notes Title from printed return address.
Addressed in type to: Messrs. J.D. Johnson & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Date inferred from ink-stamped postmark: Detroit, MI., Aug 22, [18]95 6 PM.
Contains cancelled oval two-cents stamp printed in green and containing a profile portrait of George Washington.
Printed upper left corner: In 5 Days Return To.
Contains on verso: ink-stamp postmark: received Philadelphia, PA, Aug 24, 1895 5AM.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject Buick & Sherwood Mfg. Company.
Plumbing industry -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Factories -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Genre Pictorial envelopes -- 1890-1900.
Lithographs -- 1890-1900.
Provenance J.D. Johnson Co., former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.74]
Accession number P.2011.10.74