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Details
Contributor Gies & Co., printer.
Williams. Charles N., 1830-1905, associated name.
Title [Collection of letterheads and billheads of Wells, Richardson & Co., later Wells & Richardson Co., wholesale druggists, Burlington, Vt. completed to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y.] [graphic].
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1870-1880
Date [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
Physical Description 15 prints: relief and lithograph;
Description Collection includes letterheads and billheads, majority illustrated, dated between June 13, 1873 and September 30, 1886. Illustrations depict three variant exterior views of the firm's storefront on College Street in the 1870s and 1880s. Earlier views also show signage adorning the side of the building and street traffic, including a man pulling a handcart, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons. Later view captioned "125 to 133 College St., Burlington, Vt." shows the two buildings of the firm in front of which pedestrians walk and several horse-drawn wagon and carriages travel in the street. The prints also contain ornamented type and lettering and pictorial details. Items billed with totals ranging for $2.25 to $114.26, include syringes, indigo, spirits oil, plasters, hair brushes, glue, varnish, Down's Elixir, Kedders Pastiles, lime cement, vanilla, and vaseline. Correspondence relates to receipt of, changes to, and charges for shipments, as well as prices of the merchandise. The firm established as Henry & Co. in Waterbury, transferred to Burlington in 1868 and was renamed Wells, Richardson, & Co. in 1872. The firm known for "Diamond Dyes" incorporated as Wells & Richardson Co. in 1883.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers include Gies & Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Wells, Richardson & Co.
Wells & Richardson Co.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Vermont -- Burlington.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Vermont -- Burlington.
Storefronts -- Vermont -- Burlington.
Geographic subject Burlington (Vt.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Billheads -- 1870-1880.
Letterheads -- 1870-1880.
Relief prints -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Williams. Charles N., 1830-1905, associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.248-262]
Accession number various