The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Pierce, William A. (William Abner), 1864-1935      

Title:               Bills

Dates:             1898-1899

Call No.:         Col. 1004

Acc. No.:        2019x23

Quantity:        about 380 items (1 box)

Location:        19 J 1

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

William Abner Pierce was a druggist in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  He was born in Chester County, the son of Emma Jane Plankinton and John Marshall Pierce.  In 1889, William Pierce married Mary Thomas Shantz (1868-1928) of Philadelphia.  Nothing is known about Pierce’s studies to become a druggist.  He was still working as a druggist in the 1920s, but no occupation was listed for him in the 1930 census.  He died in 1935 and is buried in Kennett Square.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

A collection of bills, mostly for the drug store operated by William A. Pierce in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  Although Pierce certainly bought medicines and supplies for his drugstore, he also bought a range of other goods to sell.  He apparently had a soda fountain since he purchased supplies, including fruit juices and a straw holder, for such a business.  He bought cigars, wine, and some other alcoholic beverages.  He bought paper boxes and rolls of wrapping paper to use in the store, but he also purchased writing paper and pens to sell.  He bought toothbrushes, hairbrushes, nail brushes, combs, tweezers, thermometers, atomizer bottles, and a variety of other goods to sell.  He purchased some items for dogs, including dog soap and tapeworm expeller.  A carpenter did some work on the store for him, but the bills from the Edison Electric Illuminating Company were for electricity and light fixtures at his residence, the store, and at an art gallery. 

 

Oddly, Pierce bought quite a bit of window glass, although perhaps it was glass for the picture frames he had also purchased, and perhaps the “art gallery” mentioned in the electric bills was a picture framing business.  He also purchased artists’ supplies, such as bronze powders, and these may have also been for a picture framing business.  As well, he purchased varnishes and paints.  The flower pots, plants, and seeds which he purchased were probably also for selling at the store, rather than for home use. 

 

           

ORGANIZATION

 

The bills have been arranged by type of goods sold by the companies (artists’ supplies, drugs and medicines, paper products and printing, etc.), and within each type, they are arranged alphabetically by name of firm.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Chester County Historical Society.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Advertising - Costs.

            Artists’ materials.

            Cigars.

            Dogs - Care and hygiene.

Drugstores - Pennsylvania - West Chester.

            Drugstores - Equipment and supplies.

            Pharmacists - Pennsylvania - West Chester.

            Pictures frames and framing.

            Plants.

            Seeds.

            Soda fountains.

            Stationery.

            West Chester (Pa.) - Businesses.

Billheads.

Invoices.

 

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 19 J 1

 

 

All accession numbers begin with 2019x23.

All bills are dated 1898 or 1899 unless otherwise noted. 

All have printed billheads, unless otherwise noted.

 

 

Box 1 of 1:

 

Folder 1: Artists’ supplies, picture frames, photographic supplies:

 

            .1a-c    W. P. Buchanan, Philadelphia, photographic materials, illustrated with photo of a cat, with rope encircling the photo;

                                    [unclear what was purchased, but a lens was returned for credit]

 

            .2a-c    Carraine & Sligo, Philadelphia, manufacturers of picture mats and passepartouts, art specialties, [etc.];

                                    Purchased mats;

 

            .3a-b    F. Weber & Co., Philadelphia, artists’ materials, engineers’ and draughtsmen’s supplies, [etc.]; illustrated with the company’s trademark sphinx;

                                    Purchased retouching varnish and copper bronze;

 

            .4a-u    Geo. C. Newman, Inc., Art Store, Philadelphia, oil paintings, engravings, [etc.], mirrors, gold frames, etc.; billheads have two designs; two of them are decorated with the head and shoulders of a woman; but most are decorated with a picture frame, and a bell to indicated that the store had both local and long distance telephone connections;

                                    Purchased many frames and some mats;

 

            .5a-b    Geo. Meier & Co., New York, bronze powders, gold paint, … metal leaf, lithographic stones, [etc.]; billhead decorated with foliage motifs, printed in shiny green ink;

                                    Purchased bronze powders

 

            .6a-g    Hargreaves Manufacturing Co., Detroit, picture frames, mouldings and art goods;

                                    bills list product number, but may have been buying prints;

 

            .7a-b    Hastings & Co., Philadelphia, bronze powders, gold and silver leaf, [etc.], with list of medals won at expositions; illustrated with view of store;

                                    Purchased gold leaf and something else;

 

            .8a-b    Iander & Taylor, Philadelphia, picture and portrait mats, … art trade supplies, [etc.];

                                    Purchased boards and mats;

 

            .9a-b    F.C. Pfeiffer, Philadelphia, manufacturer of picture frames and mouldings, [etc.]

                                    Purchased frames

 

 

Folder 2: Beverages, food, confectionery, malt extract

 

            .10       Stephen L. Bartlett, Philadelphia, importer of Bensdorp’s Royal Dutch cocoas & chocolates;

                                    Purchased cocoa

 

            .11a-b  Benton, Myers & Co., Cleveland, proprietors Duroy Wine Company, manufacturers of prepared fruit juices, crushed fruits and specialties for use at the soda fountain;

                                    Purchased various juices and some coffee [maybe coffee flavoring];

 

            .12       F.A. Breck, Vineland, N.J., preserver of pure non-alcoholic grape juice;

                                    Purchased grape juice;

 

            .13a-c  Brinton & Brosius, Philadelphia, standard mineral waters, ginger ale, lemon soda, sarsaparilla, [etc.]; illustrated with a dragon on a cartouche;

                                    Purchased tube gas

 

            .14       Chas. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, soda water apparatus;

                                    Purchased safety regulating pressure gauge screw coupling;

 

            .15       Wm. C. Curry, West Chester, Pa., fresh fish, oysters, poultry, country produce;

                                    Purchased b.berries, sugar, watermelon, duck, lettuce

 

            .16       E.L. Spellman & Co., New York, California wines and brandies; illustrated with a view of the store;

                                    Purchased orange wine and sherry;

 

            .17       H. Rosenheim & Son, Baltimore, Springdale Pure Rye Whiskey; illustrated with some rye;

                                    Purchased California sherry wine and Monticello Spring 1893 whiskey;

 

            .18a-d  Horlick’s Food Co., Racine, Wis., Horlick’s malted milk, [etc.]; illustrated with view of factory and views of farms;

                                    Purchased malted milk;

 

            .19       John M. Miller & Son, Philadelphia, confectionery, chocolates, fruits, nuts, fireworks, Christmas goods;

                                    Purchased mint drops, victor nut chocolate, gum drops, chocolate marshmallows, pipe stem candy, etc.;

 

            .20a-d  Royal Malt Extract Co., Philadelphia; decorated with a fancy monogram;

                                    Purchased malt extract;

 

            .21       Smith & Painter, Wilmington, Del., natural fruit juices;

                                    Purchased grapefruit, pineapple, and strawberry wafers;

 

            .22a-c  Sunset Wine Co., Los Angeles, wine growers, distillers;

                                    Purchased sherry, port, cognac;

 

            .23       White, Hentz & Co., Philadelphia, whiskies, wines and liquors; illustrated with trademark and a shield;

                                    Purchased old Holland gin

 

 

Folder 3: Carpentry work, building supplies, window glass, lighting work

 

            .24       S.C. Black, West Chester, Pa., door and sash factory and planning mill;

                                    Paid for mill work for conservatory

 

            .25a-b  Charles M. Burns, West Chester, Pa., 1889 and 1898, not printed billheads;

                                    1889: carpenter work at store and hardware;

                                    1898: work at store, work and refrigerator at house, hardware, building observatory [sic];

 

            .26a-c  Edison Electric Illuminating Company, West Chester, Pa.,

for lights at store and residence [appears to be for electricity used, rather than fixtures]; also parts, labor, and wiring art gallery;

 

            .27a-b  Hires Turner Glass Co., Philadelphia, mirrors, window and picture glass, decorative glass, [etc.]; (billheads are different)

                                    Purchased “lights” [i.e. panes of glass]

 

            .28       Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Philadelphia, plate glass and window glass, [etc.];

                                    Purchased “rough” [glass]

 

            .29a-o  Benjamin H. Shoemaker, Philadelphia, window glass, plate glass, looking glass plates, …, enameled and stained glass [etc.]; illustrated with view of the store;

                                    Purchased boxes of glass in various sizes

 

 

 

Folder 4: Cigars and tobacco

 

            .30a-f   The “Cuba Cigar Works,” H.M. Hillegass, West Chester, Pa., manufacturer of fine Havana cigars;

                                    Purchased “specials”;

 

            .31a-b  D.W. Crouse, Reading, Pa., manufacturer of fine high-grade hand-made segars, [with list of registered brands]; (billheads are slightly different);

                                    Purchased Conchitas and Yankee Consul, Consulates [brand names of cigars];

 

            .32       Fauth & Ogden, Philadelphia, manufacturers of cigars and dealers in leaf tobacco; with word Cosmos as a background;

                                    Purchased Cosmos [brand name];

 

            .33a-d  Newcomet & Dalzell, Reading, Pa., manufacturers of fine cigars;

                                    Purchased these brands: Factory No. 3, N.D., and Havana Field;

 

            .34a-e  Steele Bros., West Chester, Pa., manufacturers of fine Havana hand-made cigars;

                                    Purchased La Americana brand;

 

            .35a-e  A.J. Whitaker, Narvon P.O., Beartown station, Lancaster Co., Pa., cigar manufacturer; (old style billhead has & Son crossed out);

                                    Purchased Climax brand and Cuban cigars

 

 

Folder 5: Drugs, medicines, homeopathic remedies, pharmaceutical and manufacturing chemists

 

            .36a-e  Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia, homoeopathic pharmaceutists [sic], importers, and publishers;

                                    Purchased Hensels improved tonicum, arnica oil, rectal suppositories;

 

            .37       Henry A. Borell, Philadelphia, pharmaceutical chemist, with list of items made; decorated with his trade sign;

                                    Purchased a barrel of Farmville Lithia Spring Water;

 

            .38a-c  Cooper Medicine Co., West Chester, Pa., manufacturers of Dr. Cooper’s specialties;

                                    Purchased liniment;

 

            .39       Wm. Cowgill, Camden, N.J., dealer in patent and proprietary medicines and toilet articles;

                                    Purchased twelve dozen of something;

 

            .40a-d  Deane Plaster Company, Yonkers, N.Y., manufacturing pharmacists; illustrated with head of eagle [or phoenix] arising out of flames, with sun in back;

                                    Purchased belladonna plasters, cotton, etc.

 

            .41       Dent Medicine Company, Chicago, manufacturers of Dent’s Dog Remedies; illustrated with heads of two dogs; printed order form;

                                    Purchased a variety of dog remedies, including vermifuge, tapeworm expeller, mange cure, eye lotion, dog soap, fit cure, etc.;

 

            .42       E.E. Dickinson & Co., Essex, Conn., distillers of witch hazel;

                                    Purchased witch hazel

 

            .43a-c  Emerson Drug Co., Baltimore, manufacturing chemists;

                                    Purchased bromo seltzer, rheumatic cure, phosphor aperient, and hydrobromate of caffeine;

 

            .44a-c  Frederick F. Ingram & Co., Detroit, perfumers, manufacturing pharmacists; illustrated with trademark of Wing’s Perfumes, and a scroll listing various things made;

                                    Purchased dog soap, poison flypaper, dyspepsia tablets, B.I.F. caps., headache wafers, witch hazel salve, etc.

 

            .45       Gilpin, Langdon & Company, Baltimore, imports and export druggists, & druggists’ sundrymen;

                                    Purchased white hellebore, pine [something], aconite, and insect powder;

 

            .46a-d  H.K. Mulford Company, Philadelphia, pharmaceutical chemists, factors of compressed tablets; illustrated with view of factory in Chicago and laboratory in Philadelphia; mentions it has a vaccine farm in Glenolden, Pa.;

                                    Three of the bills were addressed to Pierces Drug Store in Kennett Square, with the fourth to the store in West Chester;

                                    Purchased wistaris, licorice, a standard antitoxin, etc.;

 

            .47       Samuel K. Hammond, West Chester, Pa., drugs, homeopathic medicines, toilet articles, perfumery, eye exams and glasses;

                                    Purchased veronica;

 

            .48       Hance Brothers & White, Philadelphia, pharmaceutical chemists’

                                    Purchased quinine, etc.

 

            .49       Henry Thayer & Co., Cambridgeport, Mass., manufacturing chemists, fluid extracts; illustrated with a shield with company monogram, and medals won, and pinecones;

                                    Purchased elm lozenges, violet sachet, heliotrope sachet;

 

            .50a-s   John Wyeth and Brother, Philadelphia, manufacturing chemists, with lists of items manufactured and awards won;

                                    Purchased anti-bilious tablets, Spencers pastilles, heart tonic, black cohosh, saccharine pills, aconite, something for tonsillitis, calomel soda #1, mentholated throat tablets, and a long list of other items (mostly partially abbreviated);

 

            .51a-b  Johnson Laboratories, Philadelphia, manufacturing chemists; letter and printed order form;

                                    Purchased stomach tablets, kidney pills, dyspepsia cure;

 

            .52       Charles Leedom, Philadelphia, manufacturing and dispensing chemist;

                                    Purchased Leedom’s digestive tablets;

 

            .53       Merck & Co., New York, illustrated with view of Merck building;

                                    Purchased cinchonidine dihydrobromate

 

            .54a-m             Munyon’s Homoeopathic Home Remedy Co., Philadelphia;

                                    Purchased remedies for colds, grippe, asthma, headache, blood problems, kidney problems, dyspepsia, nerves, etc.

 

            .55       Pabst Chemical Company, Chicago; Kennett Square is crossed out;

                                    Purchased 1 dozen okay specific;

 

            .56       Paris Medicine Company, St. Louis, Mo., manufacturers of Grove’s tasteless chill tonic, laxative bromo quinine, and tasteless quinine preparations; printed order form;

                                    Purchased laxative bromo quinine

 

            .57       Searle & Hereth Company, Chicago, manufacturing chemists; illustrated with picture of its factory;

                                    Purchased a box of violets;

 

            .58       Sharp & Dohme, New York, manufacturing chemists; with list of some of items available; illustrated with view of laboratories in Baltimore;

                                    Purchased belladonna, charcoal lozenges, horehound, and pennyroyal;

 

            .59a-c              Shoemaker & Busch, Philadelphia, druggists;

three credit slips addressed to Kennett Square; on back of one of the slips is a label from Baldwin’s Pharmacy, Kennett Square

 

            .60       Upjohn Pill & Granule Co., New York City, manufacturing pharmacists; illustrated with view of company’s building in Kalamazoo, Mich., and a thumb reducing one of company’s friable pills to powder;

                                    Purchased La Grippe

 

 

Folder 6: Drugstore furniture and supplies [but not drugs or medicines];

[see also Fancy goods]

 

            .61       Baumgarten & Co., Baltimore, Md., manufacturers of rubber stamps, seal, steel and brass dies, [etc.];

                                    Purchased an outfit of some kind and a pen;

 

            .62       John M. Maris & Co., Philadelphia, importers, manufacturers & dealers in druggist’s furniture, glassware and sundries;

                                    Purchased holders;

 

            .63       J. Ellwood Lee Co., Conshohocken, Pa., manufacturing chemists, medicinal & surgical plasters, supplies, and druggists sundries; illustrated with company’s trademark, which includes view of factory;

                                    Purchased linen oly. Bougies

 

            .64       Joseph G. Taite’s Sons, Philadelphia, manufacturers of decorated tin boxes, druggists’ tinware and specialties;

                                    Purchased petrolatum and varnish cans;

 

            .65a-u  Whitall, Tatum & Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers of druggists, chemists and perfumers glassware, … and jobbers of druggists sundries;

                                    Purchased straw holder, funnels, stirring rods, glass mortar and pestle, urinometer, invalid cushion, thermometers, Barclay and anti-colic nipples, bed pans, male glass urinals, head ice bags, hypo needles, filter paper, stomach tubes, zincs for Florence battery, razor strops, pill spatulas, teething rings, tooth brushes and tooth powders, dropping bottles, etc.

 

            .66       Wm. A. Gill & Co., Columbus, Ohio, manufacturers of … tin boxes and cans, metal caps for glass and stone jars, [etc.]; illustrated with picture of factory and warehouse, with a train running in front of the buildings;

                                    Purchased hinged boxes

 

            .67a-e  Wm. B. Burk & Co., Philadelphia, importers of sponges and chamois;

                                    Purchased corks

 

 

Folder 7: Fancy goods and druggists’ specialties, and miscellaneous goods

[see also Drugstore furniture and supplies]

 

            .68a-b  Brainerd and Armstrong Co., Philadelphia, silk manufacturers; silk and twist manufacturers; two different billheads, one illustrated with a spool of thread;

                                    Purchased dental floss;

 

            .69       A.W. Dobbs, Ithaca, N.Y.; printed blank form, not printed for Dobbs;

                                    Purchased hair oil, cherry malt, schnapps, cordial, globe pills, a tonic, and other goods

 

            .70a-b  Edward K. Tryon, Jr. & Co., Philadelphia, fire arms, bicycles and sporting goods;

                                    Purchased rubber boots and something else;

 

            .71a-i   Harris & Berntz, Philadelphia, dealers in fancy goods and druggists’ specialties [with list of goods available];

                                    Purchased syringes, nipple shields, tweezers, sponges, atomizer bottles and bulbs, rubber bands, combs, hand scrubs, thermometers, nail brushes, tooth brushes, hair brushes, etc.;

 

            .72a-b  J.B. Van Sciver & Co., Camden, N.J., fine furniture manufacturers, carpets, bedding, etc.; illustrated with view of factory;

                                    Purchased an armchair and shellac rockers

 

            .73a-d  Knauth Bros., New York, surgeons instruments and hospital supplies; illustrated with view of building;

                                    Purchased mohair and silk conic conversation tubes;

 

            .74       Maxim, Pringle & Brush Co., New York, manufacturers of soaps and perfumes;

                                    Purchased soap;

 

            .75       Watertown Thermometer Co., Watertown, N.Y., manufacturers of thermometers, barometers, hydrometers; illustrated with a picture of the god Mercury;

                                    Purchased thermometers;

 

 

Folder 8: Hardware and cutlery; and iron and steel products; and rubber products:

 

            .76a-b  A. & P. Roberts Company, Pencoyd Iron Works, Philadelphia;

                                    Purchased angles and beams;

 

            .77a-c  Chesterman & Streeter (successors to I.B. Seeley & Co.), hard rubber trusses, supporters, and file instruments, [etc.]; with background illustrations of some of the company’s goods;

                                    Purchased silk garter stocking, tubing, and rubber tips;

 

            .78       John S. Holler & Co., New York, manufacturers of the “Tower Brand” cutlery; illustrated with the company’s trademark, which includes a tower;

                                    Monthly statement, for unnamed merchandise;

 

            .79       Morris, Wheeler & Co., Philadelphia, iron and steel of all descriptions;

                                    Purchased angles

 

            .80       Seltzer-Klahr Hardware Co., Philadelphia, hardware and cutlery; illustrated with picture of Enterprise Meat Chopper, attached to a table;

                                    Purchased flower pot brackets;

 

            .81       Fred C. Spaulding, trading as Spaulding & Metcalf, Philadelphia, mechanical rubber goods and engine room supplies;

                                    Purchased pipe vise, screw plates, pipe cutter, l.k. die;

 

            .82       Stevenson, Bro. & Co., Philadelphia, oils, paraffine [sic] wax, lubricants, … rail road and mill supplies;

                                    Purchased Chicago rubber hose;

 

            .83       Isaac [illegible], West Chester, not printed billhead;

                                    Purchased galvanized and iron pipes, and bottles;

 

 

Folder 9: Jewelry and optical supplies

 

            .84a-k  M. Sickles & Sons, Philadelphia, wholesale and manufacturing jewelers and importers of watch materials, tools, and optical goods, etc.; (two different billheads);

                                    Had toothbrush, seal, hairbrush, and other items engraved; purchased mirror, hooks, files, clasps, C & B sets, hairbrushes, vinaigrettes, puffs, horns [shoe horns?], curlers, corkscrews, combs, scissors, brooms, paper cutter, clothes brushes, hat pins, stamp boxes, etc.

 

 

Folder 10: Leather goods and leather dressings

 

            .85a-b  Langfeld Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers, fancy leather goods, pocket books, bags, purses and writing tablets; illustrated with view of factory;

                                    Purchased bill wads, tablets, bags;

 

            .86a-b  R.M. Hollingshead Co., Camden, N.J., manufacturers of leather dressings, [etc.]; manufacturers of leather dressings, soaps, oils, metal polishes, etc.; two different billheads, one illustrated with view of factory and tins of soap dressing and metal polish;

                                    Purchased metal polish, witch hazel, castile soap

 

 

Folder 11: Paints, varnishes, turpentine

                        [see also Artists’ supplies; and Petroleum products and oils]

 

            .87       Paul A. Davis, Jr., Philadelphia, importer, wholesale merchant and manufacturer [products not listed];

                                    Purchased turpentine;

 

            .88a-e  Felton, Sibley & Co., Philadelphia, varnish and paint manufacturers;

                                    Purchased orange shellac varnish, hard finish, furniture varnish, electric japan, something in white and various numbered shades of color, Philadelphia flat brick red, ivory paradox enamel, china glass white, straw color carriage product, bicycle enamel, walnut and cherry oil stains and varnishes, sandpaper, emery cloth, etc.;

 

            .89a-l   Geo. D. Wetherill & Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers of white lead, zinc white, colors, putty, all painters supplies; illustrated with picture of Atlas holding the world on his shoulders;

                                    Purchased Enterprise cutters, paints, calcites, benzene, linseed oil, glass, etc.

 

            .90       John Maxwell & Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers of Maxwell’s gypsum paint; illustrated with picture of a painter holding a brush and a bucket labeled Gypsum;

                                    Purchased gypsum [something] paint;

 

 

Folder 12: Paper products, and printing/engraving:

 

            .91       A.G. Elliot & Co., Rose Glen Paper Mills, Philadelphia, paper warehouse, twines, [etc.], illustrated with view of building;

                                    Purchased roll of e.p.;

 

            .92       Albert De Cernea Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers & jobbers, paper;

                                    Purchased azure, heliotrope, and cream paper;

 

            .93a-b  Beck Engraving Co., Philadelphia, successors to Philadelphia Photo Engraving Co.;

                                    Purchased printed stationery, envelopes, and other things (probably printing plates)

 

            .94       C.S. Garrett & Son, Philadelphia, paper manufacturers;

                                    Purchased roll of felt;

 

            .95a-j   Chas. H. Elliott Co., Philadelphia, engravers, printers, lithographers;

                                    Purchased calling cards for named customers, including the local D.A.R. chapter;

 

            .96a-c  E.B. Read & Son, Baltimore, lithographers, printers, & embossers, [with list of specific things printed, such as calendars and druggists’ labels];

                                    Purchased calendars, Expectorant labels, and lithographed labels;

 

            .97       Edwards & Docker, Philadelphia, patent paper boxes, and dealers in wrapping paper, paper bags, twines, etc.;

                                    Purchased camphor boxes;

 

            .98a-c  Garrett-Buchanan Company, Philadelphia, paper: wrapping, building, roofing, book, news, manilla; and coal tar products;

                                    Purchased rolls of felt, blue drug, and other papers;

 

            .99a-b  George W. Plumly Company, Philadelphia, manufacturers of paper boxes; illustrated with two women in classical dress representing commerce;

                                    Purchased talcum, pill, and powder boxes;

 

            .100a-f             Wm. H. Hoskins; Philadelphia, manufacturing stationer, blank book maker, [etc.]; illustrated with an open account book and with a desk; on the back of .100f is a picture of “junior letter file,” a box in which to file papers;

                                    Purchased Hoskins Imperial fluid, fountain pens, paper, boxes, indexes;

 

            .101a-d            Hug & Boscowitz, New York Paper Box Co., New York, artistic lithographers to the drug trade, manf’rs of druggists paper boxes; illustrated with women in classical dress representing commerce, and with cattails [reeds];

                                    Purchased labels;

 

            .102     Irwin N. Megargee & Co., Philadelphia; paper

                                    Purchased sheets of Plymouth gray [paper];

 

            .103a-b            J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, publishers, importers, stationers, blank book makers & printers;

                                    Purchased “Beats All” something, and something else;

 

            .104     Peerless Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers of toilet paper, tissue and paper specialties;

                                    Purchased Excelsior and rolls of toilet paper;

 

            .105     Joseph H. Tisdall, Philadelphia, stationer and printer, blank book manufacturer, [etc.]; illustrated with an account or ledger book;

                                    Purchased various kinds of paper, probably all stationery to sell in drugstore;

 

            .106     W.H. Dobbins & Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers and dealers in printed and plain manilla wrapping paper, [and various kinds of boxes and bags, and stationery, etc.];

                                    Purchased a roll of white Hercules [paper?]

 

            .107a-k            Whiting Paper Company, Philadelphia, manufacturers of writing papers;

                                    Purchased cards, rolls of paper, manilla paper, boxes, blotting paper, etc.

 

            .108a-b            Wm. H. Grevemeyer & Co., Philadelphia, booksellers, stationers, wall papers and window shades, [etc.], successors to Carey Bros. & Grevemeyer; illustrated with picture of factor of National Wall Paper Co.;

                                    Purchased ink, paper, cigar case, “Beats All” something;

 

            .109     Young & Keim, Philadelphia, paper box manufacturers;

                                    Purchased slides and packers

 

 

Folder 13: Petroleum products and oils:

                       

            .110     A.W. Wright & Co., Philadelphia, dealers in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, [etc.];

                                    Purchased linseed oil;

 

            .111     Atlantic Refining Company, Reading, Pa., petroleum products;

                                    Purchased wax of some sort;

 

            .112a-b            Beaver Refining Company, Washington, Pa., refiners of petroleum and its products;

                                    Purchased white something and amber something

 

            .113     Grove & Brother, Philadelphia, merchants, linseed oil, white lead, wood alcohol, [etc.];

                                    Purchased linseed oil;

 

            .114     Phillips Oil Company, Philadelphia, oils;

                                    Purchased castor oil;

 

            .115     The Red “C” Oil Manf’g Company, Baltimore, oils for all kinds, for burning, lubricating, and manufacturing; illustrated with facsimile of barrel label; more products listed on back of bill;

                                    Purchased paraffin oil;

 

 

Folder 14: Seeds, plants, fertilizers, florists

 

            .116     A.W. Perkins & Co., Rutland, Vt., manufacturers of Plantene, a food for house plants;

                                    Purchased Plantene;

 

            .117     David Landreth & Sons, Philadelphia, farm and garden seed and implement warehouse, [etc.];

                                    Purchased a variety of plants, including variegated vinca, asparagus something, areca lutescens, and others, plus a small jardinière;

 

            .118a-e            Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, seedsmen and florists;

                                    Purchased seeds and a variety of plants, including white violets, ficus elastic, spirea, hydrangeas, cocos Weddeliana, lilacs, etc., etc.;

 

            .119     Charles H. Fox, Philadelphia, florist;

                                    Purchased jars, Flemish, combination;

 

            .120a-c            Joseph Kift, West Chester, Pa., florist, [with list of some plants sold, etc.]; one bill is dated 1900, the other 1899;

                                    Purchased pink rambler, bougainvillea, hyacinghts, plam, asparagus, verbena, etc.;

 

            .121a-i             Henry F. Michell, Philadelphia, seeds, bulbs and implements;

                                    Purchased pots, lily pans, seed pans, labels, jadoo fibre, raffia, tobacco dust, flower and grass seeds, bulb pans, fibre vases, asparagus plumose, tin foil, pruning shears, bone meal, lemon oil, etc.

 

            .122     Philadelphia Farmers’ Supply Co., Philadelphia, agricultural implements, seeds, carriages, wagons, harness, etc.; successors to W.H. Jones; illustrated with picture of a wood or coal burning stove;

                                    Purchased a bush[?];

 

            .123a-c            Robert Buist Company, Philadelphia, seed growers; illustrated with colored picture of trade mark of a red rose;

                                    Purchased hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, butter lettuce, English mushroom spawn, etc.;

 

 

Folder 15: Utilities, and railroads [including advertising on local street railway]

 

            .124     Chester County Telegraph and Telephone Co., West Chester, Pa.;

                                    For telephone service;

 

            .125a-b            Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Company, Philadelphia.;

                                    For telephone service;

 

            .126     Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail Road Co., West Chester station;

                                    For freight from Pittsburgh;

 

            .127a-c            West Chester Street Railway Advertising Company, Wilmington, Del.;

                                    For advertising