Details
Contributor Clark County Democrat, former owner.
Title The National Live Stock Journal, handsomely illustrated, contains 48 large pages, devoted to the interests of stock breeders and farmers. [graphic] : Terms, $2.15 per annum. Post-paid. Published monthly, by The Stock Journal Company, Lakeside Building, cor. Clark & Adams streets, Chicago, Ills.
Alternate Title The National Live-Stock Journal.
Publisher [Chicago]
Publisher ILL. Chicago. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: relief; 10 x 16 cm. (3.75 x 6.25 in.)
Description Pictorial envelope containing vignettes of live stock on recto and verso. Vignettes on recto depict oval-framed images of the head of a cow and the head of a horse. Vignettes on verso depict full-length portraits of a cow, two pigs, and a ram. Images also include grass and fencing. The National Live Stock Journal was established in 1870.
Notes Addressed in manuscript to: Clark Co. Democrat, Winchester, Ky.
Date inferred from stamp.
Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in blue and depicting a profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
Printed on verso: Price of cuts, this size, post paid, one cut, $2.50; two cuts $1.00. For specimen sheet of cuts, address Stock Journal Co., Chicago, Ills.
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 Stock Journal Company.
Publishing industry -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Livestock.
Genre Pictorial envelopes -- 1860-1870.
Relief prints -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Provenance Clark County Democrat, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.86]
Accession number P.2011.10.86