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Title Bought of Breinig, Fronefield & Co. Druggists & chemists, no. 187 North 3rd Street. Wholesale dealers and importers of drugs, medicines, paints, dye stuffs, glass, perfumery &c.&c. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph on blue paper; 15 x 21 cm. (5.5 x 8 in.)
Description Billhead for the drug firm established in 1848 by Dr. Charles Fronefield and Dr. Breinig. Contains vignette showing druggists' apparatus and supplies, including beakers, flasks, a scale, distiller, mortar and pestle, barrels, casks, and crates of oil of vitriol and glass.
Notes Completed in manuscript to Mr. J. F. Rambo on August 13, 1853 for two items, including salt petre for $1.26.
Manuscript note on recto: Received Payt Breinig, Fronefield & Co.
Manuscript note on verso: Aug 13, J. F. Rambo 1853 with Breinig, F. & Co.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Breinig, Fronefield & Co.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Patent medicines.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Equipment and supplies.
Genre Billheads -- 1840-1850.
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Provenance: Rambo, J. F., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads - 1879 (A-D) - B [P.2011.46.279]
Accession number P.2011.46.279