Collection of correspondence, including illustrated letterheads and letterheads with ornamented type. Imagery includes trademarks designed with animal figures; views of the New York Quinine & Chemical Works, Northern Dispensary (N.Y.), University of Vermont Medical Department, Lazell, Dalley & Co., importers and druggists (N.Y.), and W.H. Halliburton, Wholesale Druggist (Little Rock, Ark.); pharmaceutical apparatus and equipment; the state seal of Colorado; a horseshoe; and the interior of an apothecary. Illustrated letterheads also contain pictorial details, including filigree, vinery, banners, and geometric elements. Firms and businesses represented include August Maine, Drugs and Medicines (Utica, N.Y.); E. S. Balford & Co., Wholesale and Retail Druggists (Davenport, Ia.); L. L. Lyons & Co., Wholesale Druggists, Importers and Manufacturing Chemists (New Orleans); the publishing houses The Druggist Circular, The National Druggist, The Pharmaceutical Era, and the Rocky Mountain Druggist; and The Hornick Drug Co. (Sioux City, Ia.). Correspondence refers to the distribution of diplomas, catalogs, and prospectuses; general information about, and employment opportunities through the college; the reservation of seats in classes; membership certificates; payments for advertising in the college prospectus; and alumni contacts. Collection also includes a small number, some blank, of stationery of the college., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Collier & Cleveland, Lith Co., Cleveland; The Gugler Lith. Co., Milwaukee; J. Ottman, Lith., Puck Bldg, N.Y; Stephens Litho. & Engr. Co., St. Louis; and Sioux City Eng. Co., Majority of correspondence addressed to O. J. Griffin or J. N. Hegeman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Niven Hegeman served as secretary of the College of Pharmacy from the 1870s until his death in 1895., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date
[ca. 1870-ca.1888]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - C [P.2011.46.36-141]
