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- 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
- Bought of James S. Aspinwall, druggist, 86 William Street Formerly, Rushton & Aspinwall, 1830, [formerly] Thomas & Maxwell, 1847, [formerly] J. T. Maxwell, 1855
- Description
- Billheads containing ornamented and type lettering. One of prints also includes an ornamented type border surrounding text reading "Importer of Foreign Drugs and Chemicals, Manufacturer and Proprietor of Aspinwall's Celebrated Tonic Mixture, for the Cure of Fever and Ague, Florida Water, & c., & c., P.2011.46.3 completed in manuscript to Messrs W.B. Glover & Co. on May 22, 1862 for several items, including "2 Sugar Lead," "1 doz. cocaine," and "1 Box chrome yellow 6" for $41.34. Signed "Recd Payment" Jas. S. Aspinwall per H. Underhill., P.2011.46.4 completed in manuscript to Messrs W.B. Glover & Co. on December 26, 1863 for five different products for $15.54. Also contains manuscript note about the increased price of a product "they have given up making.", P.2011.46.5 completed in manuscript to Messrs Glover & Warner, Sandy Hook on December 30, 1868 for several items, including "5 lbs Pick Gum Arabic," "10 lbs Ref Borax," and "1/2 Doz. Cherry Pectoral" for $62.26., Contains manuscript notes on verso of Aspinwalls's signature, monetary balance due, and date., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
- Date
- [1862-ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - A [P.2011.46.3-5]
- Title
- [Miscellaneous popular medicine ephemera]
- Description
- Includes a stereograph depicting "Killnarney-The Black Valley" and advertising Rutland, Vermont druggist and apothecary W. H. H. Fisher; an envelope printed "Bought of Coon & Robinson, Dealers in Drugs & Medicines... Nunda, N.Y."; and an illustrated songsheet "Composed by the Bearer, H. C. Harris, who has not Walked or had the use of his Hands or Arms, for 14 Years, July, 1872." Songsheet contains an ornate floral border and illustration captioned "My Picture" showing a full-length portrait of Harris, in a wheelchair and with a small box on his lap., P.2011.46.485 on yellow mount with rounded corners. Inscribed on verso: Oscar Marshall., Printers, publishers, and engravers include Miller & Best; Republican Banner Steam Print; and Stillman-Way., W. H. H. Fisher was succeeded by Fisher & McClallen in 1895., Coon & Robinson operated in the 1860s., 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-ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.46.484-486]