Details
Contributor Provenance Abrams, Joseph, associated name.
Title [Billheads of John L. Singer & Co., later Singer & Bistline, dealer in drugs, paints, oils, and notions, Newport, Perry County, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher [Newport?]
Publisher PA. Newport. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 2 prints: relief; 21 x 16 cm. (8.25 x 7 in.) or smaller.
Description Billheads for the John L. Singer firms containing ornamented type and a vignette showing a mortar and pestle. Vignette also contains promotional text, including "Orders by Mail Promptly Attended to." and "Keystone Drug Store, Jno. L. Singer, Dr. G. W. Bistline, Proprietors.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
One of items (P.2011.46.233) contains punched hole.
P.2011.46.231 completed in manuscript to Jos. Abrams on March 12, 1870 for "3 Gal turpentine" for $1.89. Inscribed on recto: Received Payment Jno. L. Singer & Co.
P.2011.46.232 completed in manuscript to Jos. Abrams on August 29, 1871 for "5 lbs Putty" for $.27 1/2. Inscribed on recto: Received Payment Singer & Bistline.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject John L. Singer & Co.
Singer & Bistline.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Newport.
Genre Billheads -- 1860-1870.
Relief prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Provenance Abrams, Joseph, associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - S [P.2011.46.231 & 232]
Accession number P.2011.46.231
P.2011.46.232