The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

                                               

Title:               Advertisements for Hair and Hair Supplies

Dates:             1859-1879

Call No.:         Col. 190          

Acc. No.:         92x76

Quantity:        26 items

Location:        13 E 6

 

 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The collection contains price lists, letters, bills, or advertising materials having to do with the sale and importation of hair and hair grooming suppiles.  Highlights include: an advertisment from Leon Pelleray of Paris that discusses wigs and features a vignette of his place of manufacture; a price list from R. Hovenden & Sons, London, for mahogany hand mirrors; an illustrated price list for L. Salomon, a New York firm, for curling irons, hair pinching irons, freezing tongs, curling iron heaters, and a brass comb with steel points; and a letter from A. Duteil, an importer of human hair and manufacturer of human hair goods operating in France and Louisville, Kenturcky, declaring that his business was so dull that he had to delay payments.  The November 1872 issue of Der Frisseur (The Hairdresser) provides five articles on such topics as colored and white hair, the loss of hair, and dressing the deceased.  Many of the items in this collection related to Pelleray and C.E. Hartung of New York City.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

           

The items are arranged in accession number order.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Pelleray, Leon.

            Duteil, A.

            Götze, Herman.

            Botteaux.

            Salomon, L.

            a Grise, J. C.

            Busch, C. H.

            Vilmer and Hartung.

            C.E. Hartung & Co.

            C.A. Heineken & Co.

            R. Hovenden & Sons.

           

Topics:

            Hair.

            Hairstyles.

            Hairdressing.

            Hair preparations.

            Combs.

            Wigs.

            Ephemera.

            Advertisements.

            Bills (financial).

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 13 E 6

 

 

92x076.1         From: Public Appraisers of the Customs

                        To:   Vilmar & Hartung, [New York]

                        Date: April 2, 1859.

 

                        One case human hair damaged 25% shipped from Bremen, [Germany].

 

 

92x076.2         From: Hermann Götze, Leipzig [Germany]

                        To:   C.A. Heineken & Co., billed to F. Vilmar & Hartung, New York

                        Date: September 24, 1860.

 

                        Shipment by freight express of clipped hair measured in Zoll [one Zoll = 1.03 inches], frizzed hair measured in inches, ready-made partings and short hair laces sent to C.A. Heineken & Co. in Bremen [Germany].

 

 

92x076.3         From: Hermann Götze, Leipzig

                        To:   C.A. Heineken & Co., billed to F. Vilmar & Hartung, New York

                        Date: February 11, 1861.

 

Freight-express shipment of clipped hair measured in Zoll, frizzed hair measured in inches, ready-made partings, and hair laces.

 

 

92x076.4         From: Sociétè des Journeaux de Modes Réunis.

                        To:   Vilmar & Hartung, New York

                        Date: March 1, 1861.

 

                        Subscription receipt for a magazine called "Coiffeur".

 

 

92x076.5         From: R. Hovenden & Sons, London

                        Date: February, 1864.

 

                        An advertisement for India rubber combs.

 

 

92x076.6         From: Frederick Hartung

                        Date: New York, April 25, 1865.

 

                        Notice of no associations with establishments under similar name.

 

 

92x076.7         From: Léon Pelleray, Paris

                        Date: April 1, 1869.

 

Advertisement and price list (no discounts) for hair.  Page depicts a three-part illustration of the Château-Thierry in a cartouche. Offering hair for men and  women, long, frizzed, straight or crimped of first and second quality, prized by weight, partings for ladies called "cachefolies" (early 19th century name for a      lady's wig).

 

 

92x076.8         From: Botteaux, Paris; merchant & manufacturer of postiches and artificial hairpieces.

                         Date: April 7, 1869.

 

Letter of regret having missed the lady from America, indicating some concessions of price reduction if she should return. Signed: Botteaux.

 

 

92x076.9         From: A. Duteil, Louisville, KY.

                        Date: 187?

 

                        Price list for wigs, braids, curls made to order.

                        Reverse side: Advertisement of manufacturers, wholesale merchants &c. of Louisville, KY.

 

 

92x076.10       From: L. Salomon, 206 Pearl St.

                        To: C. E. Hartung & Co. (rubber stamp)

                        Date: February 16, 1871.

 

                        Price list for riveted curling irons.

                        Reverse side: Directory listing of merchants in Manchester, NH.

 

 

92x076.11       From: The Hairdressers' Chronicle and Trade Journal.

                        To: R. Hovenden & Sons, London.        

                        Date: March 25, 1871.

 

                        Revised list for French mahogany hand mirrors.

 

 

92x076.12       From: Heimath für alte Leute.

                        Date: August 23, 1871.

 

                        Printed article written in German: Heimath för alte Leute (Home for the Aged).

                        Seal of The Little Sisters of The Poor of The City of  New York.

 

 

92x076.13       From: A. Duteil, Louisville, KY.

                        To: C.E. Hartung & Co., NY.

                        Date: August 29, 1872.

 

Importer of human hair and manufacturer of human hair goods from Saint Amand, France.

Letter written about a delayed payment due to dull business, but "it is only momentarily."  Signed: A. Duteil.

 

 

92x076.14       From: Léon Pelleray, Paris

                        Date: October 1st, 1872.

 

                        French price list for straight and frizzed hair of either length or weight.

 

 

92x076.15       Duplicate of 92x076.14.

 

 

92x076.16        Duplicate of .14 and .15.

 

 

92x076.17       From: Der Friseur

                        Date: Berlin, November 1, 1872.

 

Monthly illustrated [sic] magazine "Der Friseur," (“The Hairdresser,” formerly known as "Der Pariser Friseur"). a professional journal for men's and women's hairdressers.

                        Five articles written in German:

                        First:  Description of the first colored fashion picture.

                        Second: White hair.

                        Third:  A process of prevention of hair fall-out due to dandruff deposits.

Fourth: A detailed report on the situation and employment of hairdressers' assistants in London.

                        Fifth:  The hairdresser for the deceased.

                        Various advertisements on the last page of the four-page journal.

 

 

92x076.18       To:   A. Duteil, Louisville, KY.

                        Date: February, 1873.

 

                        Price list of human hair goods.

 

 

92x076.19       From: L. Salomon, New York.

                        Date: February 1, 1873.

  

                        Price list of hair dressers' tools.

 

 

92x076.20       From: Léon Pelleray, Paris

                        To:   C.E. Hartung et Cie., New York

                        Date: March 28, 1873.

 

                        Price list with reduced prices for short- and frizzed hair sold by length and weight.

 

 

92x076.21       From: Léon Pelleray, Paris

                        To:   C.E. Hartung & Cie., New York

                        Date: April 1st, 1873.

 

Advertisement and price list for hair with a three- part illustration of the Château Thierry in a cartouche.

Offering hair for men and women, straight or crimped, fine hair, blond or snow-white hair of first and second quality priced by weight. Partings for ladies' or gentlemen's wigs. Beards and moustaches, ready-made toupees and wigs.

 

 

92x076.22       To:   J. Dalton, New York

                        From: C.E. Hartung & Co.

                        Date: December 1, 1873.

 

                        Receipt of payment for merchandise dated November 20th.

                        Seal: J. Dalton, 59 Hudson ST., NY. M'F'R' of hair nets.

 

 

92x076.23       From: Léon Pelleray & Fils, Paris

                        To:   C.E. Hartung et Cie., New York

                        Date: Paris, January 2nd, 1879.

 

Offering new vegetable tuft, imitation, sold by length (vegetable hair made from the leaves of an Algerian dwarf palm tree).

 

 

92x076.24       Undated French letter with the initials "H.R." in the left corner.

 

Six illustrations pasted in, depicting hairdressing articles like braiding clamps, braiding sticks, cards, spirit stove (iron heater), English stick (for English curls), waving iron; prices included

 

 

92x076.25       Undated price list of gentlemen's wig foundations, seams of gauze or silk, French wig weft, and wigs all made up.

 

 

92x076.26       Undated, current price list for whole sale dealers printed in German. J.C. Grise, Hamburg (Germany), owner: C.H. Busch, with branches in London and New York.

          

                        Advertisement for:

First and second quality, untreated hair, prepared hair sorted by color, imported square hair, wigs and toupees, parting gauze and parting silk, ready-made crimped hair, raw, uncleaned buffalo and angora hair, tufted gentlemen's partings, tufts for wigs and toupees.

                        Utensils:

Wigband, chignon nets and stands, hairdressers' wool, one or two flamed gas heaters, wig block made of glass, pins, dyes, rollers, hackles, cards, wax, curling irons, curl stick, papilotte tongs, wig feathers, wig block or stand, curling-iron stove or heater, toupee iron, hair tulle, wax model.