Details
Contributor Sanders, D.F., associated name.
Title [Business correspondence of Weeks & Potter, importers & jobbers of drugs and druggists sundries, Boston, Ma.] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston]
Publisher MA. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints: relief and lithograph; 18 x 22 cm. (7 x 8.75 in.) or smaller.
Description Includes an illustrated billhead and advertisement. Billhead contains image captioned "Resurgam" and showing a phoenix rising from a mortar of flames marked "WP" in a cluster of clouds. Billhead also contains ornamented type and ornamental details. Advertisement depicts an exterior view of the Weeks & Potter four-story storefront. Signage adorns the buildings and merchandise is visible in the first floor display window and in those on the second floor. Building also adorned with a model of a phoenix rising from a mortar of flames and a flag with the name of the firm and mascot. Firm name on flag transposed in image. Advertisement promotes Weeks & Potter's flavoring extracts, home remedies, cologne, olive oil, wines, and toilet articles on verso. Weeks and Potter, the partnership between Andrew G. Weeks and Warren B. Potter established circa 1852 as dealers of patent medicine, began to manufacture their own medicines in the 1860s. In 1899, the firm was incorporated as Potter Drug & Chemical Corporation.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Billhead completed in manuscript to D. F. Saunders on February 24, 1885 for several items, including glycerine, "Pur. Panacea," and "Downes Elix." for $27.70.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Weeks & Potter.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Phoenix (Mythical bird)
Storefronts -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Geographic subject Boston (Mass.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Billheads -- 1870-1880.
Relief prints -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Sanders, D.F., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.246 & 247]
Accession number P.2011.46.246
P.2011.46.247