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Title: [Business stationery of Nichols & Harris, wholesale and retail druggists, New London, Ct.]
Description: Includes two billheads and one receipt. Billheads contain ornamented type and ornamental details. Check contains the trademark of the firm depicting an eagle perched on a mortar & pestle. One billhead also contains a list of the medicines, including Nichol's toilet cream, for which Nichols & Harris serve as proprietor, as well as the "N&H" emblem as a cornice detail., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include G. A. Smith, Steam Print, Lyme Ct., P.2011.46.202 & 203 completed in manuscript to W.N. Kirtland (& Co.) on December 17, 1878 for $3.25 and February 23, 1888 for $11.99. Items billed include family syringe, camphor gum, and cherry drops., P.2011.46.204 completed in manuscript on October 4, 1894 to C. L. Clark, signed Nichols & Harris for receipt of $86.36., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection -N [P.2011.46.202-204]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1845-1879]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1845 and 1879, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts (some adorned in signage) and an allegorical scene showing Hermes seated among crates, barrels, and bundles, near a brick oven in front of a docked ship at which a horse-drawn dray stands. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details depict frames and filigree. Firms represented include Dr. S. Dickinson & Son (Erie, Pa.); Sisson, Butler & Co. (Hartford, Conn.); Smith & Atkinson (Baltimore); Theo. Ricksecker (N.Y.); Stretch, Bennet & Co. (Philadelphia); Underhill & Kittredge (Concord, N.H.); W. J. Whitehouse (Fort Edward, N.Y.). Billed patrons include Reed House Drug Store; C. S. Clark; Danl. Fahoney, Boonboro, Md.; Athey & Hill, Holly Spring, Miss.; Ebun Somers; Horace Chaser; and R. Williamson, Putnam., Many of the items contains manuscript notes about receipt of payment., P.2011.46.406 contains extensive manuscript note: Dr. D. Fahoney, We have above [?] of your acct. We gave Mr. Shaw a duplicate receipt for the money paid us & sent the box of rhubarb to his store to be sent by some of the waggons [sic] from your neighborhood, as they come to him with flour. Please accept our thanks for your attention in making us the remittance - We will be sending some orders to Germany & other parts of Europe about the 10th of May & of these are any articles that you have found it difficult to get good heretofore, if you will let us know before that time me can probably get them. Yours Very Truly, Smith & Atkinson., Printers and engravers include E. Brown; Ashby & Vincent, Printers, Erie, Pa.; E. Weber, Baltimore; and Frank H. Harris, Printer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1845-1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, -1879 (S-Z) [P.2011.46.403-409]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1886-1899]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1886 and 1899, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); mortars and pestles, including a trademark with an eagle perched on the tool; and an allegorical scene juxtaposing a mule caravan in tropical setting with a "Quinine Chemical Works." Pictorial details include floral and cloud imagery, frames, and flourishes. Firms represented include New York Quinine Chemical Works (N.Y.); Nichols & Harris (New London, Conn.); Noyes Brothers & Cutler (St. Paul, Minn.); Ohio Truss Co. (Cincinnati); Gilbert R. Parker (Johnston, R.I.); Charles H. Pleasants (N.Y.); Plimpton Cowan & Co. (Buffalo, N.Y.); John B. Raser (Reading, Pa.); Raynolds & Churchill (Burlington, Ia.); Robert Baker & Co. (Philadelphia); R. W. Robinson & Son (N.Y.); and Rodgers, Tedford & Co. (Knoxville, Tenn.). Billed patrons include The Resinol Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md.; C. D. Clark; A. Hirschle Smith, Amenia, N.D.; C. H. Case, Jefferson, Ohio; Walter W. Place; [New York] Dept. of Public Charities & Correction; A. E. Phillips, Sinclairville, N.Y.; J. F. Wagonhurst, Mertztown, Pa.; J. S. Banes, Villisca, Ia.; J. F. Wagernhuss (i.e., Wagonhurst?); E. S. Stokes; and Marion Roberts., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments and terms of sale., Printers include Falls City Litho. Co. Louisville, KY; Ketterlinus, Phila; Gast, St. LS. N.Y; G.H. Dunston, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Lith. Pioneer Press Co., St. Paul, Minn., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1886-1899]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (N-R) [P.2011.46.391-402]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1883-1905]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1883 and 1905, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); pharmaceutical apparatus and tools; a sick-bed scene showing a doctor with a thermometer at the side of his female patient; an eagle perched on a cliff; the interior of a drug store; and a horse and groom. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a thermometer, floral imagery, frames, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Sagar Drug Co. (Duluth, Minn.); Sandhop, Fritsch & Co. (N.Y.); J. J. Seinsoth (Hartford, Conn.); S. H. Wetmore Company (N.Y.); J. E. Silliman (Erie, Pa.); Smith, Benedict & Company (Boston); Southern Drug Co. (Morristown, Tenn.); Stone, the Druggist (Fitchburg, Ma.); Strong, Cobb and Co. (Cleveland); Tarrant & Company (N.Y.); Thomsen & Muth (Baltimore); Dr. G. Ulrich (Erie, Pa.); Van Natta-Lynds Drug Co. (St. Joseph, Mo.); Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Vogeler, Winkelmann & Co. (Baltimore); William A. Whittem (Philadelphia); Winkelman & Brown Drug Co. (Baltimore); and Alfred Wright (Rochester, N.Y.). Billed patrons include T. Belhummeur, Lake Linden, Mich.; New York Department of Public Charities; Hartford Street Railway Company; H. A. Kerste, Schnectady, N.Y.; A. A. Beckman; Geo. H. Gilbert Mfg. Co.; A. S. Emmons; Carriger & Roberts; Fitchberg [?] Electric Light Co.; A. E. Phillips, Sinclairville, N.Y.; Dr. H.C. Porter & Son (Towanda, Pa.); W. P. Carriger, Morristown, Tenn.; J. F. Walther; D. W. Marris, Emporia; J. E. Chandler, Malvern; A. W. Holsey; Resinol Chemical Company; and H. F. Belanger, Houma, La. Collection also contains billhead of British chemist and druggist R. C. Walshaw (Huddersfield)., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments, terms of sale, and changes of address., Printers include Christie & Collier, Litho. Duluth; Strobridge & Co., Lith Cincinnati; A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore; S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis; and Craig, Finley & Co. Lith. Phila., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1883-1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (S-Z) [P.2011.46.410-428]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1850-1879]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1850 and 1879, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict allegorical figures and scenes, exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage), and pharmaceutical apparatus and goods, including mortar and pestles, distillers, and barrels, crates, and cans of medicinals. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include trademarks depicting a white lily (White Lily Catarrh Cure) and a serpent wrapped around an adorned staph. Firms represented include A. B. & D. Lands (N.Y.); Adie & Gray (Richmond, Va.); Frank S. Allen (N.Y.); Almy, Milne & Co. (Fall River, Ma.); Barrick, Roller & Co. (Philadelphia); Beates & Miller (Philadelphia); Bentley & Miller (New Haven, Ct.); B.H. Douglass & Sons (New Haven, CT); Breinig, Fronefield & Co. (Philadelphia); Burdsal & Brother (Cincinnati); H. H. Burrington (Providence, R.I.); Jno. S. Carter (Erie, Pa.); C. & J. L. Van Deusen (Roundout, N.Y.); A. L. Cutler (Boston); C. V. Clickener & Co. (N.Y.); Davis & Tucker (Canton, Oh.); Rutger L. Drake (Troy, N.Y.); and I. C. Dubose & Co. (Mobile, Ala.). Also contains billheads of the Glasgow Dispensing Chemist Thomas Davison and Stony Stratford Retail Chemists and Druggists Cox & Robinson., Billed patrons include Wynard & Sayer, Warwick, N.Y.; Jar. Courier, Blue Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier; H.L. Plumb; A.H. Dailey; J.B.M. Linn & Co.; Jos. Abrams; Warner, Clark & Taylor; J. F. Rambo; L. & N. Cross; Geo. E. Doolittle & Co., Erie, Pa.; Late C.W. Bersford S. Lowndes; J. Burnhamer; D. F. Lamon & Co.; Lorin Schaefer, Sr., Canton ; M. L. Filley; Thos. McMillan; and Wm. Jas. Comper, Holmwood, Cathcart., Some items contain stamps or pasted labels., Printers include J. L. Brooks Bank Check Co. Lith. Boston; Middleton, Strobridge & Co.; Billing Bros. & Whitmore Birmm.; and W. Weatherston & Son., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1850-1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, -1879 (A-D) [P.2011.46.271-289]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1882-1902]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1882 and 1902, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict allegorical figures and scenes, including a griffin; exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); and pharmaceutical apparatus and goods, including mortar and pestles, scales, and trusses. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include tropical imagery, banners, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Clarence S. Abrams, Ph. G. (Middleton, N.Y.); Henry Adams, Phar. D (Amherst, Ma.); Allan Pfeiffer Chemical Co. (St. Louis, Mo.); American Silver Truss (Buffalo, N.Y.); Apothecaries Hall Co. (Waterbury, Conn.); A. M. Foster & Co. (Chicago); Arthur Peter & Co. (Louisville, Ky.); M. F. Benjamin (Riverhead, L.I.); Benton, Myers & Co. (Cleveland); Andrew Blair (Philadelphia); Boykin, Carmer & Co. (Baltimore); Blumauer-Frank Drug Co. (Portland, Ore.); J. H. Boher (Harrisburg, Pa.); Stephen Bowen (Blossburg, Pa.); W[illiam] E. Brown (Providence, R.I.); W. E. Brown (Calverton, Md.; Bush & Co. (Worcester, Ma.); Bruen Bros. & Ritchey (N.Y.); Carr Brothers & Co. (Baltimore); Carter, Carter & Meigs (Boston); Joe/J.E. Chamberlain (Malvern, Ark.); Charles Hubbard Son & Co. (Syracuse, N.Y.); Charles Leich & Co. (Evansville, Ind.); Chas. W. Snow & Co. (Syracuse, N.Y.); C. W. Coulter & Co. (Slippery Rock, Pa.); Demoville & Co. (Nashville, Tenn.); and Davis & Lawrence Co. (Schnectady, N.Y.), Billed patrons include C. A. Stanton, Wurtsboro, N.Y.; G. C. Lee; Joseph Schnell, Binghamton, N.Y.; O.H. Case, Jefferson, Ohio; Duscher & Kiel; J. E. Chamberlain's Drug Store, Malvern, Ark.; Carreger Roberts & Co., Morristown, Tenn.; Goldsmith & [Fairhill?]; A. E. Phillips; Mrs. W. Hinckle Smith; The Clifton Mfg. Co., Clifton, S.C.; Benjamin Foster; Mrs. J. Boyle; W. H. Place; Resinol Chemical Co.; C. W. Phillips; Gilbert Bigelow; A. & G. Hewitt; J.W. Garrien & Co; L. D. Cooper; Rhoden & Miller; A. B. Brooks; Schultz Thurman; A. McKinney; McClellan Bros., Red Boiling Springs; and H. A. Kerste, Schnectady, N.Y., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging shipment or receipt of payments., P.2011.46.315 title annotated from Bought of C. W. Coulter & Co. to C. W. Coulter, "& Co." is crossed out., Printers include Shober & Carqueville Litho. Co.; Equitable Litho. Eng. Co. Balto. MD; J. L. Brooks Bank Check Co. Springfield, Mass.; Moser, Lyon & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.; Heincke-Fiegel Litho. Co. St. L.; Thomas & Miller Printers, New Castle; Foster & Webb Print, Nashville; G. H. Dunston Lith. Buffalo, N.Y.; and Gilmour & Kearns Lith. Montreal., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1882-1902]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (A-D)[P.2011.46.290-317]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1852-1879]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1852 and 1879, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); pharmaceutical apparatus and goods, including "patent shaving mug," mortar and pestles, scales, and rates, barrels, and jugs of medicinals; and a medieval scene of an apothecary in his laboratory. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a key; a druggist and also a lion using a mortar and pestle; banners; flourishes; and frames. Firms represented include Earl P. Mason & Co. (Providence, R.I.); E. Hartshorn & Sons (Boston); F. M. Keeler & Co. (Boston); D. H. Fonda (Albany, N.Y.); Frambes & Wright (Absecon, N.J.); Frederick Klett & Co. (Philadelphia); Gauntlett & Brooks (Ithaca, N.Y.); Geo. E. Greene (Brattleboro, Vt.); G. & S. Crawford & Co. (N.Y.); Geo. W. Norton & Fitch (Lexington, Ky.); Jos. B. Gorrell (Culpeper, Va.); H. H. Hay (Portland, Me.); Henry C. Willard & Co. (Brattleboro, Vt.); H. O. D. Banks & Co. (Philadelphia); William Hadde (New York); J. S. Ingraham (Bangor, Me.); I. N. Thorn & Co., partnership between Thorn and George E. Greene (Brattleboro, Vt.); J. M. & W. W. Cubbison (New Castle, PA); John F. Henry, Curran & Co. (N.Y.); Klein & Fleet (N.Y.); Kenyon, Potter & Co. (Syracuse, N.Y.); Lanman & Sevin (Norwich, Conn.); A. J. McKean (Mercer, Pa.); McMonagle & Rogers (Middletown, N.Y.); and Martin Kalbfleisch's Sons (N.Y.)., Billed patrons include H. Warner; F. A. Richards; A. H. Dailey, Fall River; W. H. Barnes, Chartam Village; Ebenezar Somer; C. Schrack; Gauntlett & Brooks, Ithaca; Julius J. Estey; C. S. Clark, Center Brook, Conn.; D. J. Ayers; D. W. A. Hill; T. A. Pewdexter; Frederick Ehrhardt; Mr. Leverich; J. M. Daniels; A. McKinney; F. L. Norton; McKiney Bros; C. W. Philips; and New York Eyelet Co., P.2011.46.324 title annotated: Gauntlett & Brooks, crossed out., Engravers include Redman-Kenny, N.Y.; J. Spittall; Richardson; and Gibson & Co., Cincinnatti., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1852-1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, -1879 (E-M) [P.2011.46.318-342]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1880-1898]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1880 and 1898, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); pharmaceutical apparatus and goods, including "patent shaving mug," mortar and pestles, scales, and rates, barrels, and jugs of medicinals; and scenes of a harbor view, a druggist in his pharmacy, and a blacksmith at work on his anvil. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include trademarks, art nouveau imagery, an incense burner, truss, sun bursts, scrolls, medallions and shields, flowers, frames, flourishes, and filigree., Firms represented include Edward C. Jones & Co. (Philadelphia); E. J. Hart & Co. (New Orleans); E. L. Stanwood & Co. (Portland, Me.); F. B. & Thos. Tomlinson (Tate Spring, Tenn.); Finlay, Dicks & Co. (New Orleans); E. B. Fletcher (Erie, Pa.); Forney & Knouse (Harrisburg, Pa.); Fox, Fultz & Co. (N.Y.); Fritzche Brothers (N.Y.); Fuller & Fuller (Chicago); George A. Kelly & Co. (Pittsburgh); F. Hagerman (Birmingham, Ala.); The Hastings and McIntosh Truss Co. (Philadelphia); Henry, Johnson & Lord (Burlington, Vt); Hub Drug Co. (Boston); Orlando H. Jadwin (N.Y.); J. E. Goold & Co. (Portland, Me.); J. K. McKee Company (Pittsburgh); John Reynders & Co (N.Y.); Edward L. Johnson (N.Y.); John W. Perkins & Co. (Portland, Me.); Kalish Pharmacy (N.Y.); Lamar, Rankin & Lamar (Atlanta, Ga.); Lee & Osgood (Norwich, Conn.); Lord, Owen & Co. (Chicago); Lord, Smith & Co. (Chicago); J. R. McCampbell (Knoxville, Tenn.); J. A. McDonald (Reedsville, Pa.); McClure, Walker & Gibson (Albany, N.Y.); John M. Maris & Co. (Philadelphia); John W. Perkins & Co. (Portland, Me.); Jordan & Scott (Charlotte, N.C.); Lewis W. Booth & Co. (Bridgeport, Conn.); William E. Mann (Bangor, Me.); Meyer Brothers Drug Company (St. Louis, Mo.); J. E. Moore (Albany, N.Y.); and Moyer Bro.'s (Bloomsburg, Pa.). Collection also includes billhead of Great Britain dispensing chemists Fletcher & Pater (Retford) and R. K. Kermode (Castletown)., Billed patrons include Jos. P. Remington; H. F. Belanger; A. & B. Young; Burdett Organ Co.; E. H. Light; H. A. [Kerste]; Resinol Chemical Co.; D. W. Morris; McKinney Bros.; E. K. Thompson & Son; D.J. Saunders; E.C. Mathews; S.M. Bixley & Co.; L.M. & G.W. Putney; Wm. H. Hays; Hinkley, Cragin & Field; Clifton Mfg. Co.; John A. Rockwell; Quincy Mining Corporation; Marian Roberts; Samuel Hegarty; C. H. Case; Herrick, Smith & Co.; Warner & Clark; D. S. Sanders; J. E. Chamberlain; and William Davenport., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments., P.2011.46.367 title annotated with stamp: Jno M. Scott & Co., Successors To., Printers include H. B. Church; Kentucky Litho Co., Louisville; Henry Siebert & Bro. Co. N.Y.; C. Otto [Triel?]; J.H. Warner, N.Y.; Budden & Son Lith, Atlanta, Ga.; J. Reynders Co.; Golder Co., Pitt.; Lakeside Press, Portland, Me.; and Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co., Chicago., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1880-1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (E-M) [P.2011.46.343-381]

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