Details
Contributor E.B. Read & Son, printer.
Marine, William M., associated name.
Title [Billheads of George Walker, druggist, Hall's X Roads, Aberdeen, Md.] [graphic].
Publisher [Baltimore]
Publisher MD. Balitmore. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints: relief; 13 x 22 cm. (5 x 9 in.) or smaller.
Description Billheads illustrated with ornamented type and type ornaments, including decorative borders and frames. Frame detail surrounds text reading "Pure Drugs, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Toilet & Fancy Articles, etc." Walker also advertised "Physicians Prescriptions and Family Recipes a Specialty."
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers include E. B. Read & Son, Prs., Baltimore.
Completed in manuscript to Wm. M. Marine on June 16, 1886 for $15.00 and on May 19, 1887 for $2.55.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Walker, George.
Decoration and ornamentation.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Maryland -- Aberdeen.
Borders (Ornament areas)
Genre Billheads -- 1870-1880.
Relief prints -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Marine, William M., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.244 & 245]
Accession number P.2011.46.244
P.2011.46.245