Details
Contributor Gast Banknote & Lithographing Co., printer.
Wolff, James Rufus, 1836-1921, associated name.
Title [Business stationery of Hopkins-Weller Drug Co., importers & jobbers, corner Washington Ave. & Main St., St. Louis, Mo.] [graphic].
Publisher [St. Louis]
Publisher MO. St. Louis. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 3 prints: lithograph and line photoengravings; 24 x 21 cm. (9.5 x 8.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Includes a letterhead and billhead with corresponding envelope. Letterhead and billhead contain decorative type, pictorial and ornamental details, and a vignette view of the offices and laboratory of the firm established circa 1878 by George K. Hopkins as Geo. K. Hopkins & Co. View also shows a locomotive passing on a bridge in the background and street and pedestrian traffic, including several horse-drawn carts and wagons. Hopkins-Weller Drug Co. (George K. Hopkins, William H. Weller, and Louis V. Clark) succeeded Geo. K. Hopkins & Co. in 1889. William H. Weller retired in 1894 and the firm was purchased by Meyer Bros. Drug Co. in 1899 following Hopkins retirement.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers include Gast, St. L. & N.Y.
Names of proprietors printed above image.
P.2011.46. 163 completed in type to Dr. J. R. Wolff, Bingen, Ark. from Hopkins-Weller Drug Co. Per, Bascom on November 22, 1891 regarding an enclosed duplicate invoice for Cheatham's Chill Tonic not entitled to any discount, but which can be deducted from his bill for advertising when remitted.
P.2011.46.164 completed in manuscript to Dr. J. R. Wolff, Bingen, Ark. on November 25, 1891 for several items, including Carters Carb Soap, Salt Petre, and Leaus Almanacs for $14.14. Stamped on recto: 60 days, or 1 1/2% discount for Cash. Printed on recto: Sent for your account and risk, per [Hope to Nashville].
P.2011.46.164a addressed in manuscript to Dr. J. R. Wolff, Birgen, Ark. Contains printed return address: Hopkins-Weller Drug Co., Importers and Jobbers, 601 N. Main Strteet, St. louis; ink-stamp post mark: Saint Louis, Mo. Nov 27; and two-cent stamp printed in red ink and containing profile portrait of George Washington.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
The Gast firm, established by Leopold and August Gast in 1852, operated as Gast Banknote & Lithographing Co. 1887-1975.
Subject Hopkins-Weller Drug Co.
Carts & wagons -- St. Louis -- Missouri.
Pharmaceutical industry -- St. Louis -- Missouri.
Factories -- St. Louis -- Missouri.
Geographic subject St. Louis (Mo.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Billheads -- 1880-1890.
Line photoengravings -- 1880-1890.
Lithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Wolff, James Rufus, 1836-1921, associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - H [P.2011.46.163-164a]
Accession number P.2011.46.163
P.2011.46.164
P.2011.46.164a