Details
Contributor Smith Bros. (Philadelphia, Pa.), engraver.
Griffin, J. H., associated name.
Phillips, C. N., associated name.
Title Bought of Barker, Moore, Mein, wholesale druggists and paint dealers, no. 609 Market Street, above Sixth. [graphic] : Robert Barker, John Moore, Benj. V. Mein. Sole proprietors of the celebrated first national white lead and colors. Manufacturers and proprietors of Barker's Celebrated Vegetable Horse and Cattle Powder, and Barker's Nerve and Bone Liniment.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [1880]
Physical Description 2 prints: relief on pink paper; 28 x 22 cm. (8.5 x 11 in.) or smaller.
Description Billheads containing vignette exterior view of the six-story building adorned in signage of the Philadelphia firm established circa 1868. A pyramid shaped display is visible in the lower floor show window. Also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn delivery wagon marked "Drugs." One of the prints also contains two "reduced copies of our beautiful large Chromo lithographs Show cards in six colors, handsomely framed in walnut and gilt, given away with the first order of the goods represented." The views show horses, cows, sheep, and pigs gathered in landscape settings near a railroad bridge and farm, and mountains and a lake. Billheads also contain "Terms," including claims policies and the honoring of retails prices, and a list of "Some of Our Other Specialties."
Notes Engravers include Smith Bros.
P.2011.46.10 completed in manuscript to C.N. Phillips on June 1887 for "1/2 doz. Barker's H.C. & P. Powder" and "1/4 Doz. Barker's N & B. liniment" for $1.13. Also stamped "On Sale" and inscribed "Rec'd check June 27-88."
P.2011.46.11 completed in manuscript to J. H. Griffin on February 1, 1887 for several items, including "1 doz. Assafoetida 5d size, "1 Doz. White Castile soap," and "1/2 Doz. Beans Hair Oil sml" for $23.21. Manuscript note on recto: To Port Matilda via Tyrone. Manuscript note on verso: 1887 Feb 1, Barker, Moore & Mein, Amt Bill #23,21.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Barker, Moore & Mein.
Animals.
Farms.
Landscapes.
Livestock.
Paint industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 609.
Genre Billheads -- 1870-1880.
Relief prints -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Griffin, J. H., associated name.
Phillips, C. N., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.10 & 11]
Accession number P.2011.46.10
P.2011.46.11