Details
Contributor Somers, Ebun, associated name.
Title Bought of Stretch, Bennett & Co. (Successors to Peter T. Wright & Co.) Importers of and dealers in drugs and medicines. Also brandies & wines for medical purposes. No. 609 Market St. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 18 x 22 cm. (7 x 8.5 in.)
Description Billhead of the Philadelphia firm containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the business's six-story store front at 609 Market Street. View also shows crates in the second floor windows, a passing horse-drawn omnibus, and laborers loading crates onto drays. Joseph S. Bennett entered into the established business of Peter T. Wright & Co. in 1858, which was reestablished as Stretch, Bennett & Co. circa 1865. The firm was later succeeded by Joseph S. Bennett & Co.
Notes Completed in manuscript to Ebun Somers on January 21, 1867 for two items for $14.80.
Manuscript note in pencil on recto: Pd by Cash. E. Pope.
Manuscript note in ink on recto: Rec'd Payment Stretch Bennett & Co. pr Grigg.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Stretch, Bennett & Co.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 609.
Genre Billheads -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance Somers, Ebun, associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.407]
Accession number P.2011.46.407