Details
Contributor Provenance C. Schrack & Co., associated name.
Title Bot of Mord. & Sam. N. Lewis, no. 135 South Front Street near the drawbridge, agents of the Philadelphia Lead Works. [graphic]: Orders from any part of the United states promptly attended to.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1819
Date [ca. 1819]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; 14 x 22 cm. (5.25 x 8.25 in.)
Description Billhead containing a vignette captioned "Manufactured by Mord. Lewis & Co. and showing barrels of lead labeled "White Lead"; "Red Lead"; and "Mord. Lewis & Co., Philada." Mordecai and Samuel N. Lewis began operation of a white leads manufactory in 1819.
Notes Date inferred from establishment date of firm.
Billed to Mr. C. Schrack on May 13, 1835 for "1 bbl Dry Lead" [mg?] 890-30/860 lbs @ 10, $86.00; porterage $.25: $86.25; [2/?] off for Cash, $1.72: $84.53.
Inscribed below image: Mr. Lewis & Co. White Lead Philada.
Contains hole punch upper center.
Manuscript note on verso: M. & S.N. Lewis.
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.
C. Schrack & Co. were Philadelphia varnish and color manufacturers and importers and dealers in printers’ materials.
Subject Mordecai & Samuel N. Lewis.
Lead industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barrels.
Genre Billheads -- 1810-1820.
Engravings -- 1810-1820.
Associated name Provenance C. Schrack & Co., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.139]
Accession number P.2011.10.139