Details
Title [Business stationery of McKesson & Robbins, importers and jobbers in drugs and druggists' articles and manufacturing chemists, New York] [graphic].
Publisher [New York]
Date [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
Physical Description 6 prints: relief and lithograph; 36 x 22 cm. (14 x 8.5 in.)
Description Includes three billheads and two letterheads. Billheads contain vignette exterior view of the storefront at 91 & 93 Fulton Street. A horse-drawn omnibus, wagon, and carriage travel in front of the building adorned with signage and an American flag. Billheads also contain terms and conditions for payment and delivery, names of partners, promotional text, and "Invoice Book" and "Page" numbers. Firm founded as Olcott & McKesson by Charles Olcott and John McKesson in 1833. It was renamed McKesson & Robbins following Olcott's death in 1853 and the admittance of partner Daniel Robbins.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Billheads (P.2011.46.191-193) completed in manuscript to Gauntlett & Brooks on May 17, 1878 and August 7, 1878 and Maicas & Co. on July 28, 1887. Items billed include hemlock, hair brushes, Hoyt's cologne, wax gas lighters, and borax.
Letterheads completed to Friend Griffing from John [illegible] on March 26, 1888 regarding a check and Mr. Massey of Messrs Caswell, Massey & Co. from W. H. Wickham on June 20, 1888 regarding the selection of a "College of Pharmacy" by E. H. Morgan.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject McKesson & Robbins, inc.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York.
Storefronts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Geographic subject New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Billheads -- 1860-1880.
Letterheads -- 1860-1880.
Lithographs -- 1860-1880.
Relief prints -- 1860-1880.
Provenance: Wickham, William H. (William Hull), 1846-1925, associated name.
Caswell, Massey & Co., associated name.
Gauntlett & Brooks, associated name.
Maicas & Co., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - M [P.2011.46.191-195]
Accession number P.2011.46.191
P.2011.46.192
P.2011.46.193
P.2011.46.193a
P.2011.46.194
P.2011.46.195