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- Title
- 1227 + 1229 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a view of 1227-1235 Market Street. Horse-drawn carriages and carts stand on the cobblestone street. Awnings and large signs hang from the buildings. 1235 Market Street has a sign reading "[Wil]liam B. Drew, [...] and Feathers." 1233 Market Street has signs reading "Established 1831, W.P. Walter's Sons, 1233 Hardware 1233." 1231 Market Street has signs reading "Commonwealth Brewing Co., Real German Lager., Ostendorff's." 1229 Market Street has signs reading "Firmin Michel originator of the hot roast beef sandwich Lunch and Dining Room. D.C. Humphreys Adv. Sign Co., 1227 Market St., 25c Regular Dinners, Light Lunch Cafe." 1227 Market Street has signs reading "E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts., Tents and Decorations, D.C. Humphrys & Co. 1227 Signs, Headquarters for G.A.R. Decorations.", Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.556]
- Title
- 1227 + 1229 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
- Description
- Glass negative a view of 1227-1235 Market Street. Horse-drawn carriages and carts stand on the cobblestone street. Awnings and large signs hang from the buildings. 1235 Market Street has a sign reading "[William] B. Drew [...] Feathers." 1233 Market Street has signs reading "Established 1831, W.P. Walter's Sons, 1233 Hardware 1233." 1231 Market Street has signs reading "Commonwealth Brewing Co., Real German Lager., Ostendorff's." 1229 Market Street has signs reading "Firmin Michel originator of the hot roast beef sandwich Lunch and Dining Room. D.C. Humphreys Adv. Sign Co., 1227 Market St., 25c Regular Dinners, Light Lunch Cafe." 1227 Market Street has signs reading "E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts., Tents and Decorations, D.C. Humphrys & Co. 1227 Signs, Headquarters for G.A.R. Decorations.", Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.557]
- Title
- Bean & Stevenson, importers and wholesale druggists, store, 47 and 49 N. Second Street. Sole proprietors of angora, white lead, and color works! And royal spice mills L. U. Bean. H. A. Stevenson. Successors to Alex. Fullerton, Moyer & Hazard & Co. and Wetherill & Bro. Established 1822. Robert Barker, John Moore, Benj. V. Mein. Sole proprietors of the celebrated first national white lead and colors. Manufacturers and proprietors of Barker's Celebrated Vegetable Horse and Cattle Powder, and Barker's Nerve and Bone Liniment
- Description
- Illustrated letterheads containing ornate lettering, an ornament, and inset exterior view of the firm's building at 47-49 North Second Street. View shows the five-story building adorned in signage reading "Wetherill & Brother" and "Bean & Stevenson, Wholesale Druggists." Patrons stand in the doorway, pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, and a horse-drawn cart is unloaded in front of the storefront as another marked "Rogers" travels in the street., P.2011.46.12 completed in manuscript on September 17, 1873 to J. Smith Futhey Esq. from Bean & Stevenson about "keep[ing] away from said meeting" with "Josh" who owed the firm., P.2011.46.13 completed in manuscript on February 6, 1874 to J. Smith Futhey Esq. from Bean & Stevenson about "[they] will not be needed as Josh no doubt will take it out of count for arbatration [sic]...", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., John Smith Futhey, Chester County attorney, also co-authored The History of Chester County and served as a president of Penn Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chester County.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.12 & 13]
- Title
- [Billhead and envelopes of Wilson Drug Co., wholesale druggists, Charlotte, N.C.]
- Description
- Billhead contains vignette exterior view of the three-story storefront of the firm. Patrons enter and exit the building and laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn wagon parked in the street near passing pedestrians. Billhead accompanied by corresponding envelope addressed to L. Perguson & Co., Bostic, N.C. Postmarked Charlotte, February 1, [18]90, 1 AM. Also contains two-cent stamp. Other envelope printed in predominantly block letters., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Gast St. L. N.Y. & S.F., Billhead completed in manuscript to L. Perguson & Co. on January 31, 1890 for several items, including grinder, pepper, turpentine, indigo, and "sm. chimneys" for $11.61., 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. 1880-ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.263-265]
- Title
- [Billheads from J.D. Marshall & Bros., later D. Marshall & Bro., druggists, 1215 Market Street, Philadelphia to E. Somers]
- Description
- Illustrated billheads containing ornate lettering, pictorial and ornamental details, and a vignette exterior view of the sign-covered, five-story storefront of the firm established by Joseph D. Marshall, and Robert T. Marshall circa 1870. Signage reads "Paints, Oils & Glass. Coal Oil. J.D. Marshall & Bro. Drugs and Chemicals." View also shows a horse-drawn wagon and carriage in the street and partial views of adjacent buildings. Pictorial and ornamental details include a mortar and pestle in a shield-shaped frame and art-noveau-style borders decorated with garlands, a vase, and sprigs of leaves. Prints also contains lists of products sold by the firm, including Anchor Varnish Works and Hubbard Varnish Works, Annatta, Lamp Chimneys, Pure Neatsfoot Oil, Sweet Oil, and "Spts Turpentine." Joseph D. Marshall left the partnership by 1891., Printers include Stockdale, Printer, 117 S. Second St., P.2011.46.170 completed on March 29, 1873 for $6.55; P.2011.46.17 completed on November 27, 1876 for $6.65; P.2011.46.172 completed on May 12, 1879 for $4.45; P.2011.46.173 completed on October 18, 1879 for $12.81; P.2011.46.174 completed on May 15, 1891 for $7.75; and P.2011.46.175 completed on June 12, 1891 for $8.68. Items billed include soap, candles, lard, candy, matches, cigars, pomade, toilet powder, ginger, German chocolate, and nutmeg., Majority of prints contain punched holes., All prints annotated as payment received., 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 - J [P.2011.46.170-175]
- Title
- [Billheads of C.J. Lincoln Co.,wholesale druggists, Little Rock, Arkansas]
- Description
- Billheads containing ornamented and type lettering, a vignette view, and pictorial details for the firm established in 1834 and incorporated in 1889. View shows the exterior of the firm's building. Building includes a steeple. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel in the street. Pictorial details include banners, ribbons, and star bursts. The firm established by R. L. Dodge was assumed by C. J. Lincoln circa 1865., Title supplied by cataloger., P.2011.46.33 completed in type to J. E. Chamberlain, Malvern, Arkansas on July 2, 1894 for several items, including alcohol, rubber tip crutches, and wormseed for $34.75. Also contains typed note: No 1 oz. Tin Bxs. to be had in the city. Ours we expect in daily., P.2011.46.34 completed in type to J. E. Chamberlain, Malvern, Arkansas on September 12, 1894 for several items, including Godfrey's Cordial, po. acecia, and bisulph. quinine for $3.55. Also contains typed note: Express., P.2011.46.35 P.2011.46.34 completed in type to J.E. Chamberlain, Malvern, Arkansas on August 14, 1895 for several items, including syrup of figs, oxalate cerium, and gum gambier & bag for $45.50., Printers include Frey Stationery Co., St. Louis, Mo. and Gazette, Little Rock., 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. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - C [P.2011.46.33-35]
- Title
- [Billheads of Houston Drug Company, druggists, Houston, Tx.]
- Description
- Billheads containing decorative type, ornamental and pictorial details, and a vignette exterior view of the firm's three-story storefront at the corner of Travis & Commerce Streets. Details include cloud imagery, sunbursts, flowers, filigree, the "I-X-L" remedies trademark, and a railroad track labeled with products sold and manufactured by the company. Products include Chill Cure, Cotton Marking Ink, Bird Seed, Nerve & Bone Liniment, and O.K. Headache Cure. Exterior view also shows pedestrians walking on the raised walk in front of the building at which horse-drawn wagons are being loaded and unloaded. Wagons also travel in the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed on rectos: Terms [60 days], Printed above the images: We do not Insure Delivery or Safe Carriage of Goods. They are at your Risk of Breakage and Transportation after Leaving our Store. Your Recourse is upon the Transportation Company. All Bills Payable in Houston Exchange or Its Equivalent., P.2011.46.165 completed in manuscript to druggist Jos. Tristram, Brenham, on February 2, 1897 for several items, including Seatts Emulsion, Syr. Figs, and Jayne's Expector. for $14.35., P.2011.46.166 completed in manuscript to druggist Jos. Tristram, Brenham on July 13, 1900 for several items, including Swamp Root, Oil Wormwood, and Hoofland's Tea for $22.88., 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. 1890-1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - H [P.2011.46.165 & 166]
- Title
- [Billheads of William B. Blanding, druggist, 54 & 58 Weybosset St., Providence, R.I.]
- Description
- Billheads containing type and ornamented lettering, ornaments, and views of the exterior of the four-story storefront of the Providence druggist who entered the trade in 1849. Ornaments include filigree, borders, and banners. One view also shows street and pedestrian trafffic, including horse-drawn carts and carriages. Two of the billheads also contain terms of liability and one the promotion: Agent for Henry Thayer & Co., Fluid Extracts and Pills. John Wyeth & Bro., Preparations and Pills. Bullock & Crenshaw. Pills and Granules. Blanding located to Wybosset Street when he purchased the firm of Dyer Bros. in 1873., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include New York lithographer J. H. Warner., P.2011.46.14 completed in manuscript to Briggs & Bennett on August 1, 1877 for "1 lb Devon's Oak Gram Color," "10 [lb] Potash," and "1/2 dz. Caldus' [Dentine?]" for $1.97., P.2011.46.15 completed in manuscript to E.A. Krunson & Co. on December 27, 1883 for "3 7/16# [?] soap," "1 Bu. Garlics," and " 1/2 doz. Hamburg Soaps" for $2.21., P.2011.46.16 completed in manuscript to A. Manchester on July 17, 1885 for four items, including "5# Po. Jam. Ginger" and "1/2 # Sponge" for $18.00. Signed "Received Payment" Tyler, W. B. Blanding., 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. 1873-1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.14-16]
- Title
- [Billheads of William F. Nick, apothecary, dealer in drugs, medicines, and chemicals, Erie, Pa.]
- Description
- Billheads containing vignette views showing the exterior of the multi-story storefront with mansard roof at "Scott's Block, Cor. 10th & State Sts." in Erie, Pa. One view also shows street traffic, including pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage. Firm established in 1862 by William Nick and operated as William Nick & Sons 1866-1876 and Nick Brothers 1878-1882. Business re-established as William F. Nick in 1882., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Herald Print, Erie, Pa. and Photo Eng Co. N.Y., P.2011.46.200 completed in manuscript to W. S. Riblet, possibly Erie cabinetmaker William S. Riblet (1820-1893), on April 20, 1886 for "Mdse got in 1884 and 85 as in bills rendered" for $26.67., P.2011.46.201 completed in manuscript to Emil Luhse on May 7, 1890 for "Wall Paper & border" for $.90. Manuscript notes on recto: Received Payment, Wm. F. Nick; A.A. Beckermann or committee of F. E. B. Burrell., 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. 1880-ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection -N [P.2011.46.200 & 201]
- Title
- Bot. of Frederick Klett & Co., wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, dye-stuffs, paints, black lead and sand crucibles, window glass &c
- Description
- Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing an exterior view of the storefront at the northeast corner of Callowhill and Second streets. Shows a patron entering the three-and-a-half story building adorned with a sign and an awning, while a horse-drawn dray is loaded in front. Also shows adjacent buildings. Klett established his business in 1818 and continued in operation until his retirement in 1855., Completed in manuscript to C. Schrack on March 28, 1851 for "1 DR Kletts [Worm tea?] for $.75., Contains punched hole., 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. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (E-M) - F [P.2011.46.323]
- Title
- Bought of Artman, Dillinger & Co. Wholesale dealers in cotton yarns, carpet chain, carpets, ratting, wadding, tie, and wick yarns, oil cloths, window sh[ades], door mats, grain bags, cordage brushes, looking glasses, wood[en] [a]nd willow ware, &c. 104 North Third St., two doors above Arch E. R. Artman, C. H. Dillinger, M. A. Mory
- Description
- Billhead containing a vignette exterior view of the four-story storefront of Artman, Dillinger & Co. at 104 North Third Street. Signage adorns the facade of the building in which patrons enter and exit. Crates line the sidewalk and a horse-drawn wagon travels in the street., Completed in manuscript to Miss [?] [Parden?] 1426 South St. on December 10, 1870 for 1/2 [nursery?] chains 16.50: 8. 25., Inscribed in ink on recto: Recd payment Artman, Dillinger & Co., Printed to right of image: No Deduction Allowed, Unless Claimed Within Five Days from Receipt of Goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.119]
- Title
- Bought of Barker, Moore, Mein, wholesale druggists and paint dealers, no. 609 Market Street, above Sixth Robert Barker, John Moore, Benj. V. Mein. Sole proprietors of the celebrated first national white lead and colors. Manufacturers and proprietors of Barker's Celebrated Vegetable Horse and Cattle Powder, and Barker's Nerve and Bone Liniment
- Description
- Billheads containing vignette exterior view of the six-story building adorned in signage of the Philadelphia firm established circa 1868. A pyramid shaped display is visible in the lower floor show window. Also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn delivery wagon marked "Drugs." One of the prints also contains two "reduced copies of our beautiful large Chromo lithographs Show cards in six colors, handsomely framed in walnut and gilt, given away with the first order of the goods represented." The views show horses, cows, sheep, and pigs gathered in landscape settings near a railroad bridge and farm, and mountains and a lake. Billheads also contain "Terms," including claims policies and the honoring of retails prices, and a list of "Some of Our Other Specialties.", Engravers include Smith Bros., P.2011.46.10 completed in manuscript to C.N. Phillips on June 1887 for "1/2 doz. Barker's H.C. & P. Powder" and "1/4 Doz. Barker's N & B. liniment" for $1.13. Also stamped "On Sale" and inscribed "Rec'd check June 27-88.", P.2011.46.11 completed in manuscript to J. H. Griffin on February 1, 1887 for several items, including "1 doz. Assafoetida 5d size, "1 Doz. White Castile soap," and "1/2 Doz. Beans Hair Oil sml" for $23.21. Manuscript note on recto: To Port Matilda via Tyrone. Manuscript note on verso: 1887 Feb 1, Barker, Moore & Mein, Amt Bill #23,21., 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]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.10 & 11]
- Title
- Bought of Browning & Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in white and red lead, litharge, linseed oil, oil of vitriol, window glass, putty, dye stuffs, &c.&c. No. 33 Market Street
- Description
- Illustrated billheads containing an exterior view of the "Browning & Brothers Drug and Chemical Warehouse" and storefront on the 100 block of Market Street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk, near awning posts, in front of the store. One is marked "Oil Vitriol." Also shows partial views of adjacent buidlings. Established by Maurice Browning and his brothers circa 1839, the firm was one of the earliest involved in the United States dye trade and operated a factory known as the Aroma Mills in Camden, N.J., P.2011.46.17 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on July 18, 1849 for five items including "2 [fg.?] Laudamun" and "1# Cinnamon Bark" for $9.60. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., P.2011.46.18 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on March 7, 1850 for six items including "5 #os Liquorice [sic] Root" and "4 doz. Batemans drops" for $3.80. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
- Date
- [1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.17 & 18]
- Title
- Bought of Canby, Gilpin & Co. Import and export druggists & druggists sundrymen. North west corner Light & Lombard Streets William Canby, Bernard Gilpin, Thomas P. Langoon
- Description
- Billheads containing ornamented type, ornamental details, and an exterior view of the firm's five-story storefront. View also shows crates and barrels lining the side of the building and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk. The firm, established as Baily, Canby, and Gilpin in 1845, was renamed Canby, Gilpin & Co. in 1853. The original building at Light and Lombard Streets was razed by fire in 1886., Printed on recto: F.B. [ ]; Fol. [ ]; Terms [ ]; and Shipped by [ ]., P.2011.46.28 printed on blue paper. Completed in manuscript on January 30, 1884 to [A.& G Howell?], Salida, Va. for "2 Gall. Lard Oil Yourleau," "1/3 Gross Rumf of Powder/6 oz" and "Dray" for $7.12., P.2011.46.29 completed in manuscript to pharmacist J. L. Emlet, Hanover, Pa. on December 30, 1884 for several items, including mercury, belladonna, butter color, shaker extract, and Wiliam's bar soap for $40.42., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - C [P.2011.46.28 & 29]
- Title
- Bought of Edward C. Jones & Co. Successors to Amos H. Yarnall & Co. Wholesale druggists, manufacturers and dealers in drugs, chemicals, pharmaceutical preparations, perfumery, spices, patent medicines, druggists' sundries, & c. Also, paints, oils, glass, varnishes, acids, dye-stuffs, &c. S.E. cor. of Market & Fifteenth Sts. Painters' materials and tools in their varieties Established 1854. Edward C. Jones. W. H. Earl
- Description
- Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing an exterior view of the four-story storefront, heavily adorned in signage, at the southeast corner of Market and Fifteenth Streets. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and a horse-drawn omnibus passes in the street. Print also contains two frame-shaped pictorial details. One surrounds a list of products, including white lead, window glass, sal soda, calcined plaster, and "pure wines & liquors for medicinal purposes" and the other, the text "E. C. Jones, Vermin Exterminator Has No Equal." Edward C. Jones & Co. was originally established as a firm by Amos Yarnell for whom Jones served as an apprentice 1860-1864. Jones became Yarnell's partner in the later 1860s and succeeded to the head of the firm in 1877. Jones retired by the early 1890s and W.H. Earl & Co. assumed the operations of the business until 1895 when taken over by A. Eugene De Reeves., Completed in manuscript to Joseph P. Remington on October 24, 1887 for varnish for $1.65., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads 1880- (E-M) -E [P.2011.46.343]
- Title
- Bought of Eimer & Amend, wholesale druggists, 205, 207, 209 & 211 Third Ave., cor. 18th St
- Description
- Billheads containing ornate lettering and variant vignette views of the several-story building of the firm established in 1851 and incorporated in 1897. Views also show street or pedestrian traffic. Street traffic includes a horse-drawn wagon and carriage. View on circa 1890 print includes an American flag on the roof of the building. Establsihed in 1851 as Gail & Amend, Bernard Amend entered into partnership with Charles Eimer in 1856. Eimer retired in 1883 and the firm was incorporated as eimer & Amend in 1897. The firm specialized in the importation of rare crude drugs., Printers include Photo-Electrotype Eng. Co. N.Y., Printed upper right corner: Book No [ ].; Folio. [ ]., Printed above image: Wo only give credit for empties as charged in invoice, if returned in good and clean condition. All claims for deduction must be made within eight days after receipt of goods., P.2011.46.144 completed in manuscript to F. M. C. Gilroy on October 31, 1887 for "4 3/4 Gall Alcohol" for $10.45. Stamped: Paid Nov. 1, 1887, Thos. F. Gilroy, Receiver and Received Payment New York 1887 Eimer & Amend. Inscribed: Correct JHC., P.2011.46.145 completed in manuscript to N.Y. Engraving Print Co on March 22, 1899 for "Carboy 39 Lg. Ferre chloride" for $14.01. Stamped: Approved [Initials illegible]Received Drug Department and O.K. [W.R.R.S.] Manufacturing., 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. 1880-ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - E [P.2011.46.144 & 145]
- Title
- Bought of H.O.D. Banks & Co., wholesale dealers in drugs, chemicals, paints, glass, coal oil, & c. Store, s. w. cor. fourth & Callowhill Sts Henry O.D. Banks & Co., wholesale dealer in drugs and chemicals, American window glass, pure white leads, putty, linseed oil, spirits of turpentine, benzine, alcohol, whiting, glue, kerosene and coal oils, herbs, roots and barks. Also, in fine essential oils and flavors. Henry O. D. Banks. F. Aschenback. A. W. Miller
- Description
- Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing an exterior view of the five-story storefront, adorned in signage, at the southwest corner of Fourth and Callowhill Streets. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn drays and a cart stopped near the building. Also contains a frame-shaped pictorial detail surrounding a list of products, including pure white leads, American pure zincs, artists' tube colors, and kerosene and coal oils., Completed in manuscript to Frederick Ehrhardt on August 12, 1863 for several items, including Fahnestock's Vermifuge, small family dyes, schnapps, and glue for $18.19., Manuscript note on recto: Rec. Payt. H.O.D. Banks & Co., 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. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (E-M) -H [P.2011.46.333]
- Title
- Bought of Mackeown, Thompson & Co., wholesale druggists, 195 Liberty Street, Pittsburgh
- Description
- Billheads containing a vignette showing the exterior of the Pittsburgh drugstore. Signage adorns the building, patrons enter the buildings, and crates rest on the sidewalk near a passing pedestrian. The firm was established in 1825 by John Hanlon., Printed above image of P.2011.46.189: All Claims for Damages or Deductions Must Be Made Within 5 Days After Receipt of Goods, Or They Will Not Be Entertained. Established 1825., P.2011.46.189 completed in manuscript to Mr. A. Stoner on September 12, 1882 for turpentine and [tar?] for $8.65., P.2011.46.190 completed in manuscript to Mess. A. Stoner & Sons, Williamsburg, Pa. on August 31, 1883 for linseed meal, glen. raw. [umber?], and w. alcohol for $16.15., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection -M [P.2011.46.189 & 190]
- Title
- Bought of Russell & Landis, importers & wholesale druggists, & dealers in paints, oils, glass, varnishes, & c., also manufacturers of pure lily white lead, hunters iron paint, & ivory white lead. no. 5 North Fifth Street (3 doors above Market.) Geo. P. Russell. D. C. Landis
- Description
- Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the firm's storefront on Fifth Street. View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus and a man pushing a hand cart. Print also contains a pictorial detailed composed of a ribbon overlaid filigree and reading "All Claims to Be Reported Within Ten Days After Receipt of Goods." Terms of payment and shipping are also included. Russell & Landis relocated from the 400 block of Market and Fifth Street circa 1870., Completed in manuscript to F. P. Magraw on October 27, 1870 for $12.60., Stamped on recto: Paid Jul 19, 1904, E.K. Thompson & 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
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.389]
- Title
- Bought of Stretch, Bennett & Co. (Successors to Peter T. Wright & Co.) Importers of and dealers in drugs and medicines. Also brandies & wines for medical purposes. No. 609 Market St
- Description
- Billhead of the Philadelphia firm containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the business's six-story store front at 609 Market Street. View also shows crates in the second floor windows, a passing horse-drawn omnibus, and laborers loading crates onto drays. Joseph S. Bennett entered into the established business of Peter T. Wright & Co. in 1858, which was reestablished as Stretch, Bennett & Co. circa 1865. The firm was later succeeded by Joseph S. Bennett & Co., Completed in manuscript to Ebun Somers on January 21, 1867 for two items for $14.80., Manuscript note in pencil on recto: Pd by Cash. E. Pope., Manuscript note in ink on recto: Rec'd Payment Stretch Bennett & Co. pr Grigg., 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. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.407]
- Title
- [Business correspondence of Weeks & Potter, importers & jobbers of drugs and druggists sundries, Boston, Ma.]
- 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., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.246 & 247]
- Title
- [Business stationery of Gerity Brothers, wholesale druggists, 126 Lake St. Cor. Carroll, Elmira, N.Y
- Description
- Billhead and letterhead containing ornate lettering, pictorial and ornamental details, and a vignette view of the building of the firm established in 1847. Views show the three-story building adorned in signage and an American flag and with medicine bottles visible in the display windows. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons and an omnibus. Omnibus in letterhead vignette marked 'Horse Head." Details include flowers, filigree, and a mortar and pestle. Gerity brothers, the firm originally operated by William S. Gerity (d. 1912) and Clayton R. Gerity (d.1897), was active until 1910., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit, Mich. and Milton & Johnson, N.Y., P.2011.46.151 completed in manuscript to J. P. Coles, Orwell, Pa. on January 12, 1889 for several items, including F.E. Ergot, Vaseline, Butter color, Hood's Sarspa. for $18.63. Inscribed in pencil on recto: Recd Pay Gerity Bros, 323.89. Stamped: Positively no allowance will be made unless reported within 5 days after receipt of bill. Inscribed on verso: Gerity Bros, Jan 12/89, Drugs, $18.63. ck #1642, March 23/89., P.2011.46.152 completed in manuscript on June 13, 1892 to Towanda, Pa. druggists Dr. H. C. Porter Son supplying a quote for four items, including "50 cases C.P. Glycemic M and R." Contains watermark and two punched holes upper center., Printed above image of P.2011.46.151: After shipping goods and obtaining a Receipt for them in "Good Order" our responsibility ceases and we can allow no claim for any damage or loss that may occur in Transportation., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - G [P.2011.46.151 & 152]
- Title
- [Business stationery of J. L. Lyons & Co., wholesale druggists, importers and manufacturing chemists, 222,224 & 226 Camp, 529, 531, 533, 535 & 537 Gravier Sts., New Orleans, La.]
- Description
- Includes letterhead and billheads containing ornate lettering, the illustrated company trademark, and an exterior view of the multi-floor storefront. View also shows street traffic, including several horse-drawn wagons parked and being loaded and unloaded at the side of the building, and passing trolley, carriage, and wagon. Trademark illustrated with a figure of a lion. Caption above trademark on billheads: Garry Owen Strengthening Bitters., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed above image on P.2011.46.177 & 178: Salesman [ ]. Order Book [ ]. Folio [ ]. All reclamations for damages or deficiencies must be made within ten days after receipt of goods., Printed below image on P.2011.46.177: P.O Box 643. Cable Address "Lyons" New Orleans. A.B.C. Code 4th Edition., P.2011.46.176 completed in type to the Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond, Va. from J.L. Lyons & Co. Betts on March 9, 1897 requesting "We beg to thank you for your prompt attention to ours of the 4th inst.. Trusting that we may be able to reciprocate.", P.2011.46.177 completed in manuscript to Mr. H. S. Delanger, Houma, La. circa 1895 for "Error in price on 1/6 Doz Glymol chgd @4.00; should be $4.80" for $.13., P.2011.46.178 completed in manuscript to Mr. H. S. Delanger, Houma, La. on July 24, 1897 for several items, including McGuffey Primers; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th readers; chambers 1st History; and "Robinsons' Prin Auth" for $19.33. Stamped on recto: All school books can be discounted 10% cash Except those Marked Net., 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. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - J [P.2011.46.176-178]
- Title
- [Business stationery of McKesson & Robbins, importers and jobbers in drugs and druggists' articles and manufacturing chemists, New York]
- 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., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - M [P.2011.46.191-195]
- Title
- C.J. Fell & Brother, 64 Sth. Front St. Philadelphia Manufacture and have for sale: Chocolate. Homeopathic. Fell & Bros. extra. Clay & Cos. extra. Courtland no.1. W. Oakland & Co. no. 1. Albert no. 1. Nagle no. 1. Sweet Spanish. Vanilla sweet. Cocoa. Prepared. Soluble. Cracked. Cocoa paste. Cocoa shells. Broma. Mustard, superfine, fine, English brown, Clay & Co. Pepper, pure ground, no. 1 ground, superior ground, pure ground, ground African cayenne, pure ground American cayenne. Ginger, pure & no. 1 Calcutta & African, whole & ground Jamaica. Pure & No. 1 ground cinnamon, allspice, cloves. Pure ground nutmegs, mace. Pure rice flour, hominy, grits, barley, baking pwds., starch polish, salaratus
- Description
- Advertisement containing a view of the Fell & Brother's factory near Wilmington, Delaware and vignettes of eight varieties of spice plants including, cinnamon, pepper, cloves, mustard, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and cocoa. Other pictorial elements depict a female figure, holding a plant, flanked by American flags and a shield bordering the factory view, as well as scroll and floral embellishments. The types of spices and other products manufactured by the company are listed along the right and left borders. Plant vignettes identified and described in "Guide" on verso. Jonathan Fell purchased the spice-grinding factory near Wilmington in 1828., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 25 1/2. (HSP O 458), "Guide to the C.J. Fell & Bro. Card" and outline of recto on verso. Verso also contains a view of the C.J. Fell & Brother store at 64, i.e., 120 S. Front Street. A patron enters the store while clerks haul boxes and a horse-drawn wagon is parked in the street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 74, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1981, pg. 51., See LCP exhibition catalogue: Philadelphia ReVisions #34.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8693]
- Title
- [C.L.] Eberle's [drug] store from our parlor window, (cor[ner] Church La[ne] & Main St[reet]) seen from 5442 [Germantown Avenue, Deshler-Morris House]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a view of a three-story storefront owned by Charles L. Eberle at 4779 Main Street as seen from the Deshler-Morris House porch. The building is located on the corner of Main Street and Church Lane and has two floors above the shop on the first floor. Signage is visible on the side and partially on the front of the building and reads "C.L. Eberle." A canvas sign hangs across the sidewalk and reads "Miss Kate Cotton Millinery." A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the store next to a tall tree growing in a planter on the sidewalk. Eberle purchased this drug store from Abraham Rex in 1859. He retired in 1899., No. 13., Photographer remarks: good., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- 1883
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.100.1]
- 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, 1852-1878]
- Description
- Collection of billheads, dated between 1852 and 1878, 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 crates and barrels on the coast in front of a ship sailing in the distance representing imported "English, French & India drugs." Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details depict frames, including a medal engraving, and flourishes, and filigree. Firms represented include N. S. Harlow (Bangor, Me.); O.B. Curran & Son (Ithaca, N.Y.); Peckham & Glading (Providence, R.I.); Penfold, Clay & Co. (N.Y.); R. A. Robinson & Co.; Robinson & Church (Troy, N.Y.); Robinson & Hassard (Providence, R.I.); Russell & Landis (Philadelphia); and Charles H. Rutherford (N.Y.). Billed patrons include Mills & Kimball; Gauntlett & Brooks; J.S. Frayne; C.P. Severich; Athey & Hill, Holly Springs, Miss.; M.B. Callaghan; Mr. Warren; F. P. Magraw; and Glover, Warner & Clark., Printers and engraver include Reilly, Lou. NY and Longacre & 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
- [1852-1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, -1879 (N-R) [P.2011.46.382-390]
- 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, 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, 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, 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 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]
- 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 business correspondence of S. R. Van Duzer, wholesale druggist, New York]
- Description
- Collection of business correspondence dated between September 25, 1861 and February 11, 1885, including billheads, letterhead, a form letter, and a prices current (February 2, 1874) containing ornate typography and vignette illustrations. Billheads and price current contain variant views of the exterior of the firm's storefront. Majority also show laborers loading and unloading horse-drawn carts in front of the building and the storefront adorned with a flag on the roof reading "Importer & Jobber." Items billed include opium, gum arabic, Pears glycerine soap, Warner's Safe Cure, Ayer's Pectoral, and chrome yellow oil masury. Letterhead illustration shows a medieval apothecary in his laboratory. He uses a flume to stoke a fire while surrounded by pharmaceutical apparatus, including beakers, a distillery, and mortar and pestle. Other correspondence relates to receipt of payments. Van Duzer, one of New York's most prominent druggists retired from active business in 1893., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Snyder, Black & Sturn, N.Y.; The Major & & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co., N.Y.; and Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, N.Y., Correspondents include Ford & Perry, Deposit, N.Y.; F. & A. Crosswell; Glover, Warner & Clark/ Warner & Clark, Sandy Hook, Conn.; and German Valley, N.J. general store proprietor Lyman Kice., 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. 1860-ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - V [P.2011.46.237-243]
- Title
- [Collection of business stationery of C.H. Butterworth & Co., wholesale druggists and dealers in paint, Philadelphia, Pa.]
- Description
- Includes one letterhead and four billheads. Billheads contain ornamented type, ornamental details, and an exterior view of the firm's storefront at 125 Market Street. View also shows pedestrian traffic in front of the store with large display windows and adorned in signage, including a promotion for "Holstein's Aromanna." Billheads also contain promotional text, and terms of purchase and liability. Letterhead contains vignette depicting a mortar and pestle and a list of the products manufactured by the firm, including Butterworth Pulmonic Syrup, S.C. Cure, and Corn Cure, and Hassinger's Buttter Color, and American Cattle Powder. Collection also contains one billhead for the precedessor firm Budd, Butterworth & McClure established in 1886. The Market Street storefront was razed by fire in 1906., Title supplied by cataloger., Four billheads (P.2011.46.23; P.2011.46.25-27) completed in manuscript to: Lewis Somer, Oceanville, N.J. on June 16, 1888 for $3.25 and Ebun Somers, Oceanville, N.J. on February 27, 1895 for $7.57; on March 9, 1896 for $25.25; and December 10, 1896 for $7.10. Billed items include opium, paregolic, flaxseed, white lead, and peppermint., One letterhead (P.2011.46.24) completed in type on July 5, 1895 to E. Somers from C. H. Butterworth & Co. requesting an account balance due for "expressage" as Butterworth & Co make no exceptions for out of city customers., 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. 1886-1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.23-27]
- 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.]
- 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., 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.
- Date
- [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.248-262]
- Title
- [Collection of letterheads, stationery, and form letters of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and Canada]
- Description
- Collection of letterheads and stationery from the late 19th century containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict trademarks, including the Alpine Products Co. eagle; the bloodhound "Grip"; and interiors and exteriors of storefronts, laboratories, and medical dispensaries (some adorned in signage), including H.E. Bucklen & Co.'s Bottling Dept., Composing Room, Engine & Press Room, Shipping Room, Main Office, and Mailing Dept. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a ladies truss, a profile portrait of a woman captioned "The crowning glory of Woman is Her Hair," mortar & pestle, floral imagery, frames, filigree and flourishes., Firms represented include A.C. Meyer & Co. (Baltimore); Alpine Products Co. (N.Y.); The Altenheim Medical Dispensary (Cincinnati); T.P. Bailey, M.D. (Georgetown, S.C.); Bellows Falls Drug Store (Bellows Falls, Vt.); Benton, Myers & Company (Cleveland); S. Biggs (Rockingham, N.C.); D. Wood Brant (Newark, N.J.); Canadian Kennel Club (Toronto); Horace Bush (Lowville, N.Y.); Carriger & Speck (Morristown, Tenn.); C.E. Grafton Drug Company (Brookhaven, Miss.); Chicago Medical Society (Chicago); Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, i.e., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Wm. Connolly, M.D. (Cresco, Ia.); Edward H. Currier (Manchester, N.H.); E.S. Leadbeater & Sons (Alexandria, Va.); Dr. E. Greenmayer (East Palestine, Oh.); Dr. Robert Hamilton's Medical Institute (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.); Bunting Hankins (Bordentown, N.J.); H.E. Bucklen & Co. (Chicago, Ill.); Heintzelman's Pharmacy (Philadelphia); D. E. Hoagland (Cobleskill, N.Y.); J. Henderson & Bros. (Pittsburgh); John Carle & Sons (N.Y.); John F. Henry & Co. (Waterbury, Vt.); Johnston, Holloway & Cowden (Philadelphia); Joseph Hahn & Co. (Sacramento, Ca.); J. S. Merrell Drug Co. (St. Louis, Mo.); Aug. Korndoerfer, M.D. (Philadelphia); Lyman, Sons & Co. (Montreal); Max Wocher & Son (Cincinnati); and Muth Brothers & Co. (Baltimore)., Correspondence relates to shipping arrangements and fees, product orders, payments, letters of certification and retention of employees, diagnoses and treatments, as well as a purchase of a storefront and feedback on a supply of samples. Collection also includes a personal letter completed July 8, 1884 by J.F. Madden describing his medical treatment and his day in Sacramento, Ca. Correspondents include Parchen D'Archeu Drug Company; The Polk Miller Drug Co.; G.W. Aimar & Co.; A. C. Mitchell; Jacob Estey; S. Biggs; Wm. R. Scudder; Geo. B. Sweetnam; Lyman, Sons & Co.; Chapman, White, Lyons & Co.; W. W. Newsam; E. C. Seymour; John C. Legel; Burt H. Brooks; B. Hankins; H. C. Parter & Son; McKinney Bros.; J. D. Aug. Hartz; C. A. Williams; Henry B. Semple; J. F. Madden; C. P. Walbridge; and C. K. Gardner., Printers include A. Hoen & Co., Balto.; G. H. Dunston, Lith., Buffalo; A. Gast & Co., St. Louis & N.Y.; and Buston & Skinner, Lith. St. Louis., One print [P.2011.46.456 ] contains two-cent stamp., 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. 1860-ca. 1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Letterheads & Stationery (A-M) [P.2011.46.429-463]
- Title
- [Collection of letterheads, stationery, and form letters of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and Canada]
- Description
- Collection of letterheads and stationery from the late 19th century containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict trademarks, including Mishhler's Herb Bitters anchor of "Hope"; exteriors of factories and storefronts (some including signage); druggists rubber goods, including a bulb syringe and atomizer; and the waiting room and exam room of a dental office. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. View of New York Sumac Extract Company factory complex (20 Cedar Street) also shows a ship docked at the factory pier. Pictorial details include a phoenix, quarter moon, banners, mortar & pestle, frames, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Naph B. Greensfelder & Co. (San Francisco, Ca.); New York Sumac Extract Company (Long Island City, N.Y.); Rev. Jasper Marx Medicines (Jersey City, N.J.); Richardson Drug Company, Omaha (Salt Lake City, Ut.); S. B. Hartman & Co, Office of Eastern Laboratory and Wholesale Depot (Lancaster, Pa.); R.H. Mcdonald & Co. (San Francisco, Ca.); Smith, Kline & French Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.); Smith & Prime (Ausable Forks, N.Y.); Spink & Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.); H.N. Stratton (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Judson B. Todd (Ithaca, N.Y.); Tyer Rubber Company (Andover, Ma.); Westlake & McIntyre (Grand Rapids, Mi.); Whitall, Tatum & Co. (Philadelphia); Wm. H. Armstrong & Co. (Indianapolis, Ind.); and G. F. Witter (Grand Rapids, Wis.). Correspondence relates to product orders and fees, solicitations for business, and payments. credits, and payment disputes., Correspondents include Parchen-D'Acheul Drug Co.; Brooks R. Webber; R. B. Hutchings; H.M. Parchen & Co.; Samuel Newton; S. B. Hartman & Co.; H. R. Sands & Co.; R. H. McDonald & Co.; Polk Miller Drug Co.; F.M. Hopkins Sons; Henry A. Kerste; C.W. Prindell; Leonard Kellar; and Henry Bartry., Printers and engravers include Seifert & Lawton, Milwaukee; Baker-Randolph Litho. & Eng. Co. Chicago; and [George W.?] Mills., 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. 1860-ca. 1896]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Letterheads & Stationery (N-Z) [P.2011.46.464-479]
- Title
- Custom House & Post Office Phila, Pa
- Description
- View showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, and the U.S Post Office (1863-1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Also shows a lamppost in the foreground; a vendor's stand near the Customhouse; men convening near the post office; and adjacent businesses, including W.F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9228]
- Title
- [Eighth Street looking south from Arch Street]
- Description
- View showing North Eighth Street between Market and Arch streets. Businesses include a photographic studio, job printing office, drapery store, furniture company, and Espen & Brother's lace emporium (31 N. 8th). Storefronts are heavily adorned with signage as well as ornamental animal decorations, including, an ostrich, an elephant, and eagles. Horse-drawn carriages line the street and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalk under the buildings' awnings. Espen & Brother vacated 31 North Eighth Street circa 1864., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on accompanying photographer's label: Eight St. looking South from Arch., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., See Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #81., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.17d]
- Title
- Five young men sitting outside a corner grocery store, Philadelphia
- Description
- Group portrait showing five young men, all laughing and smiling, sitting together on the steps of a grocery store in Philadelphia. Heads of cabbage or lettuce are visible in the window. The men are wearing shirts and dark slacks and shoes. There is a little boy sitting behind them to the right. The streetscape is visible in the background., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.91]
- Title
- [Helen Beitler graphic ephemera collection]
- Description
- Collection of illustrated ephemera, primarily tradecards, envelopes, receipts, letterheads, billheads, and labels, for predominantly Pennsylvania businesses and trades. Some trade cards and labels are embossed, die cut, or metamorphic designs. Businesses and trades include the tobacco, transportation, and rags and paper industry; manufacturers of carriages and wagons, saddlery and harnesses, musical instruments, textiles, and pins; dealers in lumber, furniture, willow ware, clothing, medicines, seeds, spices, and groceries; stationers, printers, and publishers; and a dentist and violin teacher. Also contains rewards of merit; advertising calendars; mid 19th-century miniature illustrated seals containing admonitions; an 1872 American Wood Paper Company pass; an advertising flier for the New Stevens Spring Tooth Harrow plow; tobacco silks containing portraits of prominent Native American chiefs; a reprint of the 1841 "A Plan of the Borough of Harrisburg" designed by John Probst; a wrapper for J. Geo. Hintz, a Reading, Pa. stationer; and menu for the Delavan House hotel under the proprietorship of Charles Leland in Albany, NY. Illustrations depict various subjects. The most numerous are views of storefronts, industrial complexes, modes of transportation, women, children, and animals., Title supplied by cataloger., Artists include Helena Maquire and John Probst., Various engravers and printers, including Allen, Lane & Scott; American Bank Note Co.; Calvert Lith. Co.; E. Ketterlinus & Co.; Forbes Co.; Gies & Co.; Geo. S. Harris; W. Hart; F. S. Hickman; J. H. Buffords Sons; ; Knapp Co. Lith.; Charles Magnus; Charles Mortiz; J. Ottmann Lith. Co.; Phoenix Eng. Co.; L. Prang & Co.; and Ritter & Co.,, Several of the letterheads, billheads, and envelopes contain manuscript notes, primarily numeric calculations, on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
- Date
- [ca. 1830-ca. 1910]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection [P.2011.10]
- Title
- John Frank Keith standing in front of store, Philadelphia
- Description
- Portrait of John Frank Keith wearing a long coat standing in front of a corner store in Philadelphia. Pairs of gloves and a sign for "Baby Ruth" candy can be seen in the windows behind him., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
- Creator
- Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - portraits [P.9770.2]
- Title
- Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Phila Has constantly on hand a large & fashionable stock of clothing made in the best manner, expressly for retail sales, with the very lowest selling price marked in plain figures on each article & never varied; so all must buy alike, and with the full assurance of getting a good article at the lowest rates. Remember the crescent above 6th in Market St. No. 200
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the two-bay, five-story, green building occupied by Owen Jones's clothing store since 1846. White text advertising the business as a cheap, one price clothing store covers the facade. A columned arcade extends along the ground floor of the properties depicted, stopping at the States Union Hotel (right). A sales booth displaying wares is sandwiched between two columns at the street level. Men's vests, pants, and jackets hang under the arcade, as several men, and a couple stroll by on the wide, brick sidewalk., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 413, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W206 [P.2142]
- Title
- Life in Philadelphia. A crier extraordinary
- Description
- Racist caricature of an African American town crier performing his duties in front of a storefront on a busy Philadelphia street. The crier, attired in worn clothing and a yellow straw hat, holds up his bell in his right hand and the sheet of news down with the other. He calls out the upcoming events, including sales of merchandise, a "sarmont on Temperance," and a "Colored Ball at Mrs. Johnsons." His attire includes a blue jacket, striped shirt with patches, a red cravat, white pants with patches, and black shoes. Several spectators listen, including an African American belle, attired in a striped, hooded cape over a dress with floral details; an African American street boy, attired in a worn jacket, vest, and pants and holding a broken mug; a white boy peddler, attired in a smock and boots and with his wares on a tray over his shoulder; and a white shopkeeper holding a cloth work in his hands as his stands in his store's doorway. The peddler boy walks a dog that has torn the crier's copy of the news. Drapery hangs in the store’s display window. Black figures are depicted with oversize and exaggerated features. White figures are depicted with exaggerated features., Signed W.S. for William Summers in lower right corner., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular below the image: Sale dis nite_Frying Pans_Grid Irons_Book_Oyster Knives and odder kinds of Medicines_Joe Williams will hab some fresh oysters at his stablishment_by tickler design, Mr. Hewlet will gib Imitations ober again_two or tree damaged Discussion Locks, and Rebd. Mr. P.Q. will deliver a sarmont on Temperance, half past 6 o’Clock precise, dats not all! Widout Money or Price _ de great Bull Phillip will be station at Squire S__s & dats not all nudder! dare will be a perlite & Colored Ball at Mr. Johnsons jus arter dis is bin done”_, Charles Hunt was a respected 19th century London engraver and etcher known mostly for his prints of sporting subjects., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchase 1968.
- Creator
- Summers, William, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [7689.F]
- Title
- Life in Philadelphia. A crier extraordinary
- Description
- Racist caricature of an African American town crier performing his duties in front of a storefront on a busy Philadelphia street. The crier, attired in worn clothing and a yellow straw hat, holds up his bell in his right hand and a sheet of news down with the other. He calls out the upcoming events, including sales of merchandise, a "sarmont on Temperance," and a "Colored Ball at Mrs. Johnsons." His attire includes a blue jacket, striped shirt with patches, a red cravat, white pants with patches, and black shoes. Several spectators listen, including an African American belle, attired in a striped, hooded cape over a dress with floral details; an African American street boy, attired in a worn jacket, vest, and pants and holding a broken mug; a white boy peddler, attired in a smock and boots and with his wares on a tray over his shoulder; and a white shopkeeper holding a cloth work in his hands as his stands in his store's doorway. The peddler boy walks a dog that has torn the crier's copy of the news. Drapery hangs in the store’s display window. African American figures are depicted with oversize and exaggerated features. White figures are depicted with exaggerated features.., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular below the image: Sale dis nite_Frying Pans_Grid Irons_Book_Oyster Knives and odder kinds of Medicines_Joe Williams will hab some fresh oysters at his stablishment_by tickler design, Mr. Hewlet will gib Imitations ober again_two or tree damaged Discussion Locks, and Rebd. Mr. P.Q. will deliver a sarmont on Temperance, half past 6 o’Clock precise, dats not all! Widout Money or Price _ de great Bull Phillip will be station at Squire S__s & dats not all nudder! dare will be a perlite & Colored Ball at Mr. Johnsons jus arter dis is bin done”_, Charles Hunt was a respected 19th-century London engraver and etcher known mostly for his prints of sporting subjects., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Creator
- Summers, William, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [P.9710.11]
- Title
- [Market Street, looking east from below Twelfth Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the 1100 block of Market Street, including the Farmers' Market and several storefronts. The Farmer's Market was the largest of several market houses constructed in 1859 after market sheds and stalls were removed from Market Street. Street scene includes a variety of parked horse-drawn carts and wagons, strolling pedestrians, and horse-drawn omnibuses traveling the street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Half of mounted stereoview., Yellow mount with square corners., Misidentified on mount: 19th and Market Sts., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., See clipping in Poulson's scrapbook vol. 1, pg. 57., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1869
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [(8)1322.F.51c]
- Title
- Masonic Temple. New Masonic Hall, Chestnut St. Philadelphia To the right worshipped grand lodge of Pennsylvania (A.Y.M.) and the masonic fraternity in general this print is respectfully dedicated by Wm. F. Spieler, no. 212 Chestnut St. Phila
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. Also shows adjacent businesses, including Washington House hotel, and those tenanting the lower level of the hall. On the sidewalk, pedestrians (men, women, and children) greet one another, converse, stroll, and admire storefront displays. Displays include textiles, books, framed prints, and men's clothing. In the street, a man and woman ride on horseback in the path of a crossing couple. Image surrounded by border designed as an archway comprised of gothic elements. Pictorial elements include gargoyles, masonic iconography, and the figure of a crusader. Also contains the names of the 8 members of the building committee printed below the image. Building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 461, Spieler was a Philadelphia photographer who operated a studio at 720 Chestnut Street 1859-1861.
- Creator
- Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
- Date
- c1855
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.8610]
- Title
- Masonic Temple on Chestnut St. between 7th & 8th Sts. Phil. Pa
- Description
- View looking northwest at the front facade of the hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart. View also shows adjacent businesses with bare awnings, including the Washington House hotel (709-711 Chestnut), and other commercial store fronts west of the hall. Flags fly from 712 Chestnut in the foreground, one reads "one dollar, 712" A horse-drawn cart travels east on Chestnut Street in the distance. Building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Title from photographer's manuscript note on label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint from label pasted on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell began his photographic career in 1848 working for his brother-in-law's daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia and thereafter was associated with many commercial studios as partner or sole proprietor. He served as the chief photographer for the U.S. Army Medical Museum in 1865 and replaced Timothy O'Sullivan on George M. Wheeler's survey of the territories west of the 100th meridian in 1872. He returned to Philadelphia, went into business with his future son-in-law William Rau in 1875, and was active in the photography community until his death in 1910.
- Creator
- Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Associations [P.9047.97]