Details
Contributor Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.), printer.
Detroit Lithographing Company, printer.
Belanger, H. F., b. 1838, associated name.
Nortoni, P., associated name.
Title Nelson, Baker & Co., manufacturing pharmacists. [graphic].
Publisher Detroit
Publisher MI. Detroit. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 2 prints: lithograph; 18 x 22 cm. (7 x 8.5 in.) or smaller.
Description Billheads used by Nelson, Baker & Co. salesman P. Nortoni containing ornamented type, pictorial details, and a vignette exterior view of the factory of the Detroit firm established in 1889. View also shows the building adorned with a smoke stack and a flag, a horse-team leaving the central entryway, and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus. Pictorial details include clouds, sunbursts, and a banner.
Notes Printers include Calvert Lith. Co. and Detroit Litho. Co.
Printed above images: Agents Not Authorized to Make Collections.
P.2011.46.198 completed in type to H. F. Belanger, Esq., Houma, La. on April 28, 1897 for several items, including "American Condition Powd.," Ze-an, and "Wrappers Cod liver Oil" for $63.20. Stamped: Examined by [RSG]. Also contains manuscript note: Paid in full, Nelson Baker Co. P. Nortoni.
P.2011.46.199 completed in type to H. F. Belanger, Esq., Houma, La. on August 19, 1897 for several items, including Elix. Alatris Co., Antiseptine, and Baby Soothing Syr. for $38.47. Stamped: Examined by [G]
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Nelson, Baker & Co.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Geographic subject Detroit (Mich.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Billheads -- 1880-1890.
Lithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Belanger, H. F., b. 1838, associated name.
Nortoni, P., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - N [P.2011.46.198 & 199]
Accession number P.2011.46.198
P.2011.46.199