Details
Contributor Spittall, John, approximately 1811 -, engraver.
Ehrhardt, Frederick, associated name.
Title Bought of H.O.D. Banks & Co., wholesale dealers in drugs, chemicals, paints, glass, coal oil, & c. Store, s. w. cor. fourth & Callowhill Sts. [graphic] : Henry O.D. Banks & Co., wholesale dealer in drugs and chemicals, American window glass, pure white leads, putty, linseed oil, spirits of turpentine, benzine, alcohol, whiting, glue, kerosene and coal oils, herbs, roots and barks. Also, in fine essential oils and flavors. Henry O. D. Banks. F. Aschenback. A. W. Miller / J. Spittall.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: relief; 18 x 22 cm. (7 x 8.5 in.)
Description Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing an exterior view of the five-story storefront, adorned in signage, at the southwest corner of Fourth and Callowhill Streets. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn drays and a cart stopped near the building. Also contains a frame-shaped pictorial detail surrounding a list of products, including pure white leads, American pure zincs, artists' tube colors, and kerosene and coal oils.
Notes Completed in manuscript to Frederick Ehrhardt on August 12, 1863 for several items, including Fahnestock's Vermifuge, small family dyes, schnapps, and glue for $18.19.
Manuscript note on recto: Rec. Payt. H.O.D. Banks & 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 H.O.D. Banks & Co.
Carts & wagons. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Callowhill Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Genre Billheads -- 1850-1860.
Relief prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Ehrhardt, Frederick, associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (E-M) -H [P.2011.46.333]
Accession number P.2011.46.333