The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike,
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: D.T. Lanman and Company.
Title: Bills
Dates: 1853-1880
Call No.:
Acc. No.: 80x255, 80x256, 85x97-101,
10x32.4a-b
Quantity: 49 items (1 folder)
Location: 34 K 3
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
D.T. (David T.) Lanman and Company, later D.T.
Lanman and Kemp, and Lanman and Kemp, operated a wholesale drugstore in
David Trumbull Lanman of 6 Carroll Place, Brooklyn,
was listed as a druggist in city directories.
He died April 15, 1865, age 63.
He was born in 1802 in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of Peter Lanman and
Abigail Trumbull. In 1840, David Lanman
married Margaret Downing, and they had several children. Kemp has not been identified. David Lanman’s son George Downing Lanman
(1846-1886) was also listed as a druggist, and he was the son who continued the
business as Lanman & Kemp after David’s death.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
Most of the
bills in this collection are from various printers and engravers for wrappers
and labels. A few bills are for business
stationery, account books, drugs, ink, and varnish. The company dealt in Florida water, amongst
other things. The business must have been fairly prosperous
as it ordered 25,000 show cards and a half million small cards from L. Prang
& Co. in 1879.
ORGANIZATION
The collection is arranged chronologically.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Purchased from Robert Dalton Harris and others.
RELATED
MATERIALS
Bills from S.M. Giddings to D.T. Lanman for
purchases of herbs are found in the Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection, ASC
1201.
Additional D.T. Lanman business letters are found in
Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection, ASC 1128.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
D.T. Lanman and Kemp.
Lanman and Kemp.
Drugs -
Drugstores -
Engraving - Printing.
Printing plants -
Printing - Specimens.
Drugs - Prices.
Wholesale trade – History - 19th century.
Business records -
Bills (financial).
Pharmacists.
Printers.
Engravers.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION:
Location: 34 K 3
Note: all the bills include additional advertising
material on them; a few also have pictures.
Pictorial billheads are briefly described. Some bills are printed in different colored
inks. Items are in chronological order.
85x97 Renatus Bachmann & Co., manufacturing
druggists & confectioners,
To Messrs. David T. Lanman
& Co., for gum drops and lozenges.
80x226.2 S.S.
Chatterton, mercantile job and card printer,
To
Messrs. David T. Lanman & Co., for wrappers.
85x98 A.G. Bragg & Co., sole
proprietor of Mexican Mustang Liniment,
To D.T. Lanman &
Co., for mustang liniment.
80x226.3 E.B. Clayton’s Sons, printers,
stationers, and blank book manufacturers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for copying(?) press(?) stand.
80x226.5 Price & Sons, label manufacturers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for
80x226.4 E.B. Clayton’s Sons, printers,
stationers, and blank book manufacturers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for copying press stand.
80x225.1 John G. Lightbody, Printing Ink
Manufacturer,
To D.T. Lanman & Co. for book ink.
Illustration: Lightbody’s
Printing Ink
80x226.6 Price & Sons, label manufacturers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for labels.
80x226.7 Price & Sons, labels and wrappers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for lithographic labels.
80x226.8 Price & Sons, labels and wrappers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for labels, some illuminated.
10x32.4a Adolphus Keppelmann, [varnish, carriage
lamps, etc.,]
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for enamel varnish and
10x32.4b Ad. Keppelmann, importer of dye-stuffs,
colors, &c., price list.
80x226.9 A. Demarest, engraver & printer,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for seals and engraving.
Blind stamped with ad
for Demarest.
85x99 Timothy R. Hibbard, M.D.,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for Rev. B. Hibbard’s Vegetable Anti-Bilious
80x226.12 R. Hoe & Co., manufacturers of
printing machines and hand presses, [etc.],
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for English blue ink.
80x225.2 Howard F. Snowden, Snowden’s Mammoth
Job Printing Establishment,
To D.T. Lanman & Co. for
printing 1 ream of receipts in red ink.
Three vignettes: Printing
press, bee hive, scales.
80x225.3 Howard F. Snowden, Snowden’s Mammoth
Job Printing Establishment,
To D.T. Lanman & Co. for
printing wrappers and labels.
Printing press illustrated
at top; also detailed description of services available.
80x226.13 J.N. Gimbrede, card engraver &
stationer, [fancy goods, wedding supplies, etc.], New York, Aug. 18, 1854.
To Messrs. Lanman &
Co., for card plate and cards. Also a
note about enclosed samples of stationery.
80x226.14 Firth, Pond & Co., manufacturers of
pianofortes, dealers in … musical merchandise & publishers of sheet music,
New York, Aug. 28, 1854
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for Morison’s pills.
Illustrated with
building with sign for Morison’s Hygeian Medicines and sign for Firth, Pond
& Co.
80x225.4 Thaddeus Davids & Co., First
Premium Manufacturing Stationer,
To D.T. Lanman & Co. for
red ink.
Front of shop Davids &
Black illustrated, by Snyder, Black & Sturn.
80x226.15 Mann & Spear, stationers, blank book
manufacturers, printers, & lithographers,
To Mr. David Lanman, for
a book.
Illustrated with books,
part of a book press, ink stand.
80x226.10 A. Demarest, engraver & printer,
For seals, press, stamp
(not addressed to anyone)
Blind stamped with seal
for Consulado de
80x226.11 A. Demarest, engraver & printer,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Co., for seal and engraving.
80x226.16 W. & H. Hagar, type founders, [etc.,]
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for Mendian flowers, cuts, ornamental corners, metal lines.
80x226.17 Chatterton & Brother, mercantile job
and card printers,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Co., for wrappers.
80x226.18 Charles Shields, xylographic engraver and
printer,
To Mr. D.T. Lanman, to
payment on account.
80x226.19 Snyder, Black & Sturn, lithographic
engraving & printing establishment,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for labels and Spanish invoice heading.
85x100 B. Keith & Co., manufacturers of
concentrated medicines,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for Jalapin.
80x226.20 Robertson & Seibert, practical
lithographers,
To Messrs. David Lanman
&
Illustrated with 2
Native American men in front of a tipi.
85x101 Emanuel Lyon,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for pills.
Printed form for
recording purchases of flasks of magnetic powder and boxes of pills.
80x226.21 Goupil & Co., print publishers and
artists’ colormen,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for packs and tubes of colors, and brushes.
80x226.22 Everdell & Son, engravers, job
printers,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for wrappers.
80x226.23 L. Johnson & Co., letter foundry,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., letter inquiring at what price and how soon Lanman & Co. can
ship Extract of Liquorice, wanted for the Spanish market.
Decorated with obverse
and reverse of a medal awarded to Johnson & Co. at the Exhibition of the
Industry of All Nations,
80x226.24 R.C. Valentine, stereotyping, [etc.,]
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for pamphlets, work in creating printed documents.
80x226.25 J.H. Burnet, account book manufacturer,
stationer, [etc.,]
To
Mr. D.T. Lanman, for pencils and pens.
80x226.28 Francis & Loutrel, manufacturing
stationers, [etc.],
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Co., for an assortment of ledger, journal, cash, and other kinds of
accounting books, and for printing forms for invoices and bills.
80x226.14 Firth, Pond & Co., manufacturers of
pianofortes, [etc.,] … publishers of sheet music, … agents for Hygeian Pills,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Kemp, for Morison’s pills, with note about being out of stock of another
item, stocking of which is expected soon.
80x226.27 Snyder, Black & Sturn, lithographic
engraving & printing establishment,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Kemp, for “sundries per bill.”
80x226.32 Henry Spear, blank book manufacturer,
etc., etc.,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Kemp, for “sundries per pass book.”
85x102 Mrs. James Irvine, manufacturer of
prepared chalk, Brooklyn, July 1, 1858.
Paid by David T. Lanman & Kemp for “merchandise.”
80x226.29 Francis & Loutrel, steam job
printers, lithographers and book-binders,
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Kemp, for ream of letter paper.
80x225.6 L. Brandeis & Co., Manufacturers of
German, English and American Gold Plated Bronze Powders, Gold, Half Gold,
Silver, Metal and
To D.T. Lanman & Kemp
for fold leaf.
Illustration:
80x226.30 Francis & Loutrel, manufacturing
stationers, [etc.],
To Messrs. D.T. Lanman
& Kemp, for manifold(?).
80x226.31 J. Thoubboron, velvet show card &
fancy printer, [etc.], South Brooklyn, March 30, 1858.
To Messrs. Lanman &
Kemp, for cards for Spanish sarsaparilla and
80x225.5 Francis Hart & Co., Printers &
Stationers,
To Lanman & Kemp for
printing advertisements.
Illustration of printer at
work type-setting.
80x226.33 Lovejoy
& Son, electrotypers & stereotypers,
To
Messrs. Lanman & Kemp for plates.
80x226.34 E.S. Dodge & Co., printing and
stationery,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Kemp for electrotyping plates, almanacs (Australian, Brazilian, others),
labels, etc.
80x226.35 E.S. Dodge & Co., steam job printers,
stationers and lithographers,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Kemp for tokens,
80x226.36 V. Quarré, lithographer and manufacturer
of gas and lamp shades,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Kemp, letter asking for price of
80x226.37 L. Prang & Co., art and educational
publishers,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Kemp, letter acknowledging receipt of order for show cards and small cards.
80x226.38 W.D. Wilson, & Co., printing ink
manufacturers,
To Messrs. Lanman &
Kemp, letter inviting them to consider selling
Illustration:
80x226.39 Albert
Metz & Co., commercial printers,
To
Messrs. Lanman & Kemp, letter concerning binding of a catalog.
INDEXES TO THE
COLLECTION
Index to acc.
80x225.1-.6
American Institute
.6
Black – see Synder, Black and Sturn
Brandies, L., &
Davids, Thaddeus, & Co. .4
DeVinne, Theo. L.
.5
Hart, Francis, & Co. .5
Lanman & Kemp
.5
Lanman, D.T., &
Lanman, D.T., & Kemp .6
Lightbody, John G.
.1
Lightbody’s Printing Ink Factory .1
Snowden, Howard F.
.2-.3
Snowden’s Mammoth Job Printing Establishment .2-.3
Synder, Black and Sturn .4
Sturn – see Synder, Black and Sturn
Index to acc.
80x226.1-.41
Black - see Snyder, Black & Sturn
Black, James .19, .27
Chatterton & Brother .17
Chatterton, S. S. .2
Church, Peter .40
Clayton, E. B., & Sons .3-4
Demarest, A.
.9-11
Dodge, E. S., &.Co. .34-35
Everdell & Son .22
Firth, Pond & Co. .14, .26
Francis & Loutrel .28-30
Gimbrede, J. N.
.13
Goupil & Co. .21
Hagar, W. & H. .16
Hoe, R., &
Johnson, L., &
Kemp, Ed. .40
Lnman & Co.
.11, .13, .17
Lanman, D.T., & Co. .2-9, .12, .14, .16, .19,
.20-.24
Lanman, David T.
.15, .18, .25
Lanman, D. T., & Kemp .26-32
Lanman & Kemp
.33-39
Loutrel - see Francis & Loutrel
Lovejoy & Son
.33
Mann & Spear .15
Metz, Albert, & Co. .39-40
Plate Printers Union .41
Pond – see Firth, Pond & Co.
Prang, L., & Co. .37
Price & Sons .5-8
Quarre, V.
.36
Robertson & Seibert .20
Sarony & Major
.14
Seibert - see Robertson & Seibert
Shields, Charles
.18
Snyder, Black & Sturn .19, .27
Snyder, George .19, .27
Spear, Henry .32
Spear - see Mann & Spear
Sturn, Herman - see Snyder, Black & Sturn
Thoubboron, J. .31
Tripp, Ervin B.
.1
Tripp's Card Press Office. .1
Valentine, R. C.
.24
OCCUPATIONS:
Agent .14, .26
Artist .21
Bookbinder .29
Druggist .2-40
Engraver .7-11, .13, .18, .20-23, .27
Grocer .18
Importer .15
Lithographer .15, .19-22, .25, .27-33, .35-36
Printer .1-11, .15, .17-22, .25, .27-32, .34-35,
.39-41
Perfumer .5, .7, .18
Publisher .14, .21, .37
Stationer .13-15, .25, .28, .30, .32, .34- .35
Index to names
on other items in collection:
Bachmann, Renatus, & Co. acc. 85x97
Bragg, A. G., &
Hibbard, Timoty R., M.D. acc. 85x99
Irvine, Mrs. James
acc. 85x102
Keith, B., &
Keppelmann, Adolphus acc. 0x32.4a-b
Lyon, Emanuel
acc. 85x101