The
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.:
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
ORGANIZATION
The
items are arranged in accession number order.
PROVENANCE
Purchased
from Charles Apfelbaum.
ACCESS POINTS
People:
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, [
Date:
One
case human hair damaged 25% shipped from
92x076.2 From:
Hermann Götze,
To: C.A. Heineken & Co., billed to F. Vilmar
& Hartung, New York
Date:
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,
To: C.A. Heineken & Co., billed to F. Vilmar
& Hartung, New York
Date:
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:
Date:
Subscription
receipt for a magazine called "Coiffeur".
92x076.5 From:
R. Hovenden & Sons,
Date:
February, 1864.
An
advertisement for India rubber combs.
92x076.6 From:
Frederick Hartung
Date:
Notice
of no associations with establishments under similar name.
92x076.7 From:
Léon Pelleray, Paris
Date:
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:
Letter of
regret having missed the lady from
92x076.9 From:
A. Duteil,
Date:
187?
Price
list for wigs, braids, curls made to order.
Reverse
side: Advertisement of manufacturers, wholesale merchants &c. of
92x076.10 From:
L. Salomon,
To:
C. E. Hartung & Co. (rubber stamp)
Date:
Price
list for riveted curling irons.
Reverse
side: Directory listing of merchants in
92x076.11 From: The Hairdressers' Chronicle and
Trade Journal.
To:
R. Hovenden & Sons, London.
Date:
Revised
list for French mahogany hand mirrors.
92x076.12 From:
Heimath für alte Leute.
Date:
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
92x076.13 From:
A. Duteil,
To:
C.E. Hartung & Co., NY.
Date:
Importer of
human hair and manufacturer of human hair goods from
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:
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:
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
Fifth: The hairdresser for the deceased.
Various
advertisements on the last page of the four-page journal.
92x076.18 To:
A. Duteil,
Date:
February, 1873.
Price
list of human hair goods.
92x076.19 From:
L.
Date:
Price
list of hair dressers' tools.
92x076.20 From:
Léon Pelleray, Paris
To: C.E. Hartung et
Date:
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:
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.
From:
C.E. Hartung & Co.
Date:
Receipt
of payment for merchandise dated November 20th.
Seal:
J. Dalton,
92x076.23 From:
Léon Pelleray & Fils,
To: C.E. Hartung et
Date:
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.
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.