Billheads & Letterheads
Cotton Industry
Howard County, Maryland: Alberton Cotton Factory, 1871. Illustrated letterhead for the Alberton Cotton Factory, featuring at lively image of the factory with people, a horse and buggy, nearby domiciles, and a steaming locomotive going by. Below is a letter handwritten ink by the Treasurer of the company to Mr. William.....
Price: $175.00
Satan, Devil Iconography, Thermos
Norwich, Connecticut: American Thermos Company, 1915. Illustrated letterhead for the American Thermos Company, featuring a rather fabulous 1908 illustration of the devil and what appears to be an anthropomorphized snowman holding thermoses with the caption "It is never too hot or too cold for the man with a thermos bottle".....
Price: $200.00
lettersheet, Eastman place, engraving, manor
Poughkeepsie, NY: [1880]. A single fold unused lettersheet with a black and white illustration depicting the Eastman Place, the home of Harvey G. Eastman (1832-1878) in Poughkeepsie, NY. The image shows a the house in the distance, surrounded by manicured grounds and large trees. There is a stone walkway that.....
Price: $60.00
printing, poultry, live stock, farming, farmers, advertising, billhead, stationary
New York: Riverside Press. A catalogue that list and provides examples of illustrations that Poultry and Live Stock Breeders can use while advertising their products. At the beginning there is a price list for different sizes of envelopes, note head, memo head, letter heads, statements, shipping tags, post cards, circulars.....
Price: $100.00
Illustrated Letterhead, Frankford Philadelphia, Label Printing Lithographer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: David Heston & Sons Label Printers and Lithographers, 1887. Artistic print design letterhead for Label Printer and Lithographers. Inset promotes Folding (round) Paper Boxes. Handwritten letter on illustrated company letterhead of David Heston & Sons Label Printers and Lithographers of Philadelphia, "Manufacturers of Druggists' Labels, Folding Paper Boxes.....
Price: $100.00
Engineering and Design, Water Power
Baltimore, Maryland: Bolgiano Water Motor Co., 1894. Printed receipt (5.5" by 8.5") acknowledging the sale of a gas iron from the Bolgiano Water Motor Company of Baltimore, Maryland, to the Hendrick Manufacturing Company of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Depicts a clever water-powered sewing machine in upper left-hand corner of the receipt, powered.....
Price: $150.00
Victorian Playthings, Advertising, Manufactory, Wood turning
Bound Brook, NJ: The Princess Hoop Manufacturing Co., 1882. The letterhead has two vignettes printed in red of children with hoops with handles identified as The Normandy and The Princess. It is for the Princess Hoop Manufacturing Co, office of J. L. M. DuFour and I. R. Edgar. The letter.....
Price: $125.00
correspondence, bath house, dipsy baths, travel and tourism, letterhead,
Kennebunk Beach, ME: 4-Sep-25. A brief letter written on a letterhead from The Dipsy Baths in Kennebunk Beach, ME. A printed black and white photograph of the bathhouses with an American Flags blowing in the wind and several cars in front. The letter is written to Hiram from an unknown.....
Price: $60.00
Mt. Washington, Tip Top House, engraving, lettersheet, hotel, observatory, New Hampshire
South Hadley, MA: Carew Manufacturing Company, July 28, 1857. An unused lettersheet which features a detailed engraving of the of the Tip Top House, a famous hotel found at the summit of Mt. Washington, in Sargent's Purchase, NH. The engraving shows an active hotel with numerous men on horses and.....
Price: $85.00
Georgia, the South, Women's Life, Reconstruction Era
Atlanta, Georgia: 1868. The double sided letter to the writer's mother shares an update about their life and gossip. The letter is written on Memphis and Charleston Railroad Letterhead from Atlanta, Georgia during the period of Reconstruction. The writer discusses recent illness, a bad cold, and general news about the.....
Price: $65.00
recreation & camps, billhead, advertising,
Quincy, IL: Point Pleasant Colony, [1915]. Point Pleasant Colony was a summer camp designed for "Ladies, Gentleman, and Children, Conducted According to the Highest Standards". Located in Quincy, IL, on the shores of Mississippi River and surrounded by forests it promoted itself as a retreat for families and individuals. The.....
Price: $85.00
land development, agricultural, correspondence, business history, caterpillar tractor, billheads and letterheads
San Francisco, CA: El Rico Land Company, 11-Dec-19. A letter to a Mr. Peter Goettsch of Nicolaus, CA, regarding payment of his dividends in the El Rico Land Company. Originally enclosed with this letter was check for $400. The letter is on a specialized letterhead, meant for exactly this type.....
Price: $85.00
merchant, commission merchant, business, goods, flour, wood
New York: 1859. A letter written by Frank Hiram Crosby, most likely a commission merchant, in New York. It is unclear who he is writing to, but in the letter he discusses the price of flour he purchased, three to five cents per pound, and the sale of wood. He.....
Price: $125.00
legal, transportation, shipping, letterhead, government
Hamburg, Germany: March 12, 1872 - April 29, 1872. This document is the English translation of a German document which was the "Adjustment of the Average" for the ship 'The Messenger' which was under Captain Waldo Hill (1814-1888) control and traveled from Bakers Island, MA, to Hamburg, Germany. The trip.....
Price: $125.00
collection, correspondence, recreation & camps, billheads & letterheads, Harvard University, Hotchkiss School, schools & universities
Lakeville, CT: Keewaydin Camps Limited Partnership, 1931-1932. George W. Creelman (1872-1951) was the Vice President of the Keewaydin Camps, as well as the Master of Mathematics at Hotchkiss School, a private high school in Lakeville, CT. This collection features seven letters written by him, to his son, Brenton "Brent" W......
Price: $225.00
correspondence, business history, letterhead, slate, quarry, industry, billhead, religion, sunday school, charity, American Sunday School Union
Slate Hill, PA: Susquehanna Slate, February 1859. The item is two letters addressed to Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw written on a finely illustrated circular. The letters are written on a single page, which has been folded in half, with the first letter written on the inside fold and the second.....
Price: $85.00
billheads and letterheads, corn husking, business history, agricultural
Shenandoah, IA: Corn Husking Supplies, 7-Oct-07. A receipt from Corn Husking Supplies in Shenandoah, IA on the company's official billhead. Corn Husking Supplies was owned by R. N. Thomas selling a variety of tools and supplies necessary for corn husking. A large portion of the tools he provided were designed.....
Price: $65.00