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To A. M. Knowlson, dr. Pharmaceutist, natural flowers of every description, for parties, weddings, funerals, &c., furnished at short notice. No. 350 Broadway, Troy, N.Y. [graphic].
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Contributor
Norton, Frank L., associated name.
Title
To A. M. Knowlson, dr. Pharmaceutist, natural flowers of every description, for parties, weddings, funerals, &c., furnished at short notice. No. 350 Broadway, Troy, N.Y. [graphic].
Publisher
[New York]
Publisher
N.Y. Troy. 1870
Date
[1870]
Physical Description
3 prints: relief; 36 x 21 cm. (14 x 8.25 in.) or smaller.
Description
Billheads containing ornamented type. Knowlson entered the drug store trade in the late 1850s and succeeded his employer W.E. Hagan in 1864. He relocated to the larger storefront on Broadway in 1871.
Notes
Printed upper right: All Accounts Settled Monthly.
P.2011.46.181 missing lower half. Completed in manuscript to Rev. Frank Norton on January 1, 1878 for several outstanding billed items from July-November 1878, including cut flowers, Benzine, soap, bug poison, and carthartic pills priced between $.35 and $2.00.
P.2011.46.182 completed in manuscript to Rev. Frank Norton on June 17, 1879 for several outstanding billed items from January 1879, including a pencil, cut flowers, turpentine, plaster, Chlorate Potash, alcohol, soap, Chloride Lime, glass tube, and Nichol's Carbolic Acid for $45.57. Inscribed on recto: Amount carried over. Inscribed on verso: Amount carried over page 3.
P.2011.46.183 completed in manuscript to Rev. F.L. Norton on May 19, 1880 for several outstanding billed items from April-May 1880, including Walkers emulsion, quinine pills, N.E. rum, plaster, nipples, Saffron, and Gum Camphor for $9.42.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject
Knowlson, A.M.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York -- Troy.
Genre
Billheads -- 1860-1870.
Relief prints -- 1860-1870.
Provenance
Norton, Frank L., associated name.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - K [P.2011.46.181-183]
Accession number
P.2011.46.181
P.2011.46.182
P.2011.46.183
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William H. Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection
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