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Title: Bought of William A. Whittem, apothecary, dealer in segars, stationery &c. Opposite rail road depot Established 1875
Description: Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing block lettering and pictorial details including ribbons, filigree, and flourishes., Completed in manuscript to A. W. Kelsey on October 1, 1893 for several items, including "Apollinaire's Pt," eye shade, Pears soap, camphor, rubber bands, tooth brushes, and dental floss, for $24.07., Stamped on recto: Paid Oct 3 1893 Wm. A. Whittem, per F.R., Printed above image: No toilet is complete without a bottle of Whittem's Rosemary and Catharidine Hair Tonic. It is Refreshing, Cleaning, and Invigorating., 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- (S-Z) - W [P.2011.46.426]

Title: Bought of Rodgers Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in paints, oils & varnishes Thos. Rodgers. Jas. A. Rodgers
Description: Billheads containing a vignette view showing the exterior of the Knoxville storefront adorned in signage and with a model of a mortar and pestle on the roof. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage with driver., Date inferred from costume of female figure in vignette illustration., Completed in manuscript to J. B. McLin & Co, Rose Hill, Va. on November 24, [1875?] for $17.78 and March 30, 1878 for $.20. Billed items include "Balsam Cap," "Mustang Lin[iment]," Bluestone, and Camphor., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - R [P.2011.46.218-219]

Title: Bought of A. W. Wright & Co., importers and dealers in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, refined coal and lubricating oils, druggists' sundries, &c. Paint department, 124 Market Street. N.E. cor. Market and Front Streets Sole proprietors Kaighn's Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Hoarhound. Proprietors of the Haddonfield Paint and Oil Works, Haddonfield, N.J. Manufacturers of Dr. Hutchinson's Vegetable Worm Destroyer
Description: Billheads containing ornamented type lettering., P.2011.46.6 completed in manuscript to L. Somers on August 10, 1887 for several items, including "1 Quart Castor Oil" for $8.12. Signed October 12, 1887 By Cash $4.12; December 14, 1887 Recd. Payment A. Wright & Co., P.2011.46.6a completed in manuscript to L. Somers on March 28, 1888 for Chester Oil for $4.58. Signed Recd Payment A.W. Wright & Co. 4/25/88. Manuscript note on recto: 1/4 cents off H.L. Oil if paid in 30 days., P.2011.46.7 completed in manuscript to L. Somers on April 25, 1888 for several items, including "1/2 doz Paint Brushes, #5" for $13.73. Signed June 16, 1888 By Cash $5.73; September 12, 1887 Recd. Payment A. Wright & Co., "Book" and "Page" numbers inscribed in upper left corner., 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 - A [P.2011.46.6-7]

Title: [Business correspondence of New York chemist Charles Rice]
Description: Includes illustrated letterhead of "D. DeGraff, Prop'r of Orange Blossom Tooth Powder, Apothecary." Letterhead contains an ornament comprised of a banner and art nouveau pictorial elements. Firms and organizations represented in the other letterheads include McKesson & Robbins, New York Department of Charities and Correction, and Pharmaceutical Record Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Correspondence dated June 7, 1887, October 14, 1887, March 1, 1888, and April 27, 1888.l, 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 - R [P.2011.46.210-213]

Title: Bought of John L. Thompson, Sons & Co., wholesale druggists, and dealers in paints, oils, dye stuffs and window glass, nos. 159, 161 and 163 River Street
Description: Billheads containing ornamented type and ornamental and pictorial details. Details depict a mortar and pestle captioned "Established 1797" and banners, and flourishes. Proprietors listed on the billheads include John L. Thompson, David Cowee, J.I. Thompson, G.A. Thompson, and James F. Cowee. The firm, established by Dr. Samuel Gale, Jr. in 1797, became a partnership between Gale and John L. Thompson in 1821, and reincorporated as John L. Thomspon, Sons & Co. in 1851., Printed above image: Terms cash., P.2011.46.179 completed in manuscript to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown on May 15, 1875 for several items, including bitters, camphor, aloe, mucilage, and Sudletz powder for $134.13. Inscribed on recto: Exp [?] to Westport. Printed on recto: Family Safety Oil., P.2011.46.180 completed in manuscript to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown on January 16, 1884 for several items, including Bay Rum, Redders Pastile, milk magnesia, cocaine, vaginal syringe, and Hall's Balsam for $75.27. Stamped: Family Oil., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1870-1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - J [P.2011.46.179 & 180]

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 Hall & Ruckel, importers and wholesale druggists, 218 & 220 Greenwich Street, New York]
Description: Includes billheads, a letterhead, and "Memorandum of Credit" containing ornate typography. Billheads also contain promotional text and lists of medicines that Hall & Ruckel serve as "Proprietors of" and "Agents for," including Van Buskirk's Sozodont and McAllister's All-Healing Ointment. Memorandum also contains a pictorial detail depicting a mortar and pestle. Hall & Ruckel, the partnership between William Henry Hall and John H. Ruckel, was established circa 1843. Ruckel left the firm in 1869 and Hall continued as proprietor until his death in 1893. The firm was sold to C. G. Bacon & Co. in 1894., Title supplied by cataloger., P.2011.46.153 printed on pink paper. Completed in manuscript to J. H. Athey , Holly Springs, Miss. on December 6, 1876 for several items, including Holman's Pads, Coleman Mustard, and Brown's Ginger for $26.52. Inscribed on recto: Your goods marked P & Mills Son with your name on the corner.", P.2011.46.154 completed in manuscript to Athey & Hill, Holly Spring, Miss. for [illegible] Paid on good for $1.91., P.2011.46.155 completed in manuscript on May 17, 1888 to Mr. J. N. Hegeman from Hall & Ruckel about remittance of thirty dollars for "initiation for and annual subscriptions to College of Pharmacy for Mr. H. Hall, Augustus H. Hall & N. J. I. Hall.", P.2011.46.156 completed in manuscript to Mess. Carriger and Roberts, Morristown, Tenn. on November 15, 1888 for "Allowance on Florida Water charged 1 doz. Toilet Water 4.00. Sent 1 [Doz.] Florida [ Water] " for $1.75., 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 - H [P.2011.153-156]

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: [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: [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]

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