Collections of Billheads: Websites & Books

Websites:

The John Johnson Collection

Roscommon, Ireland

Rhode Island

Norfolk, Virginia

Chesapeake City, Maryland

Am Baile

Maryland

Sacramento

Glendale, Montana

Central Pacific RR

Books:
Ely Billheads
By Pamela Blakeman, Blakeman, Ely Society, Ely Society
Published by Ely Society, 1984

Bought of: Nineteenth-century Sheffield Through Its Billheads & Related Documents
By Mary Chesworth
Published by Sheffield City Libraries, 1984

The Signboards of Old London Shops: A Review of the Shop Signs Employed by the London Tradesmen During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries
By Ambrose Heal
Published by B. T. Batsford, 1947

Some American Billheads from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer at the New-York Historical Society
By Bella Clara Landauer, New-York Historical Society, New-York Historical Society
Published by Priv. issued, 1949

Accounts Rendered: Some Pembrokeshire Merchants' and Shopkeepers' Billheads from the 19th and Earlier 20th Centuries
By Jim McBrearty
Published by Pembrokeshire Publicity Service, 1987

Pictorial Billheads: A Portfolio of Old St. Louis Buildings.
Published by Missouri Historical Society, 1949

Wm. Frost Mobley Presents a Visual History of Trades and Professions: A Unique Collection of Advertising Trade Cards, Broadsides, Business Stationery, Etc. Portraying the Social, Cultural, Commercial and Professional History of Society
By William Frost Mobley
Published by W.F. Mobley, 1981

Billheads & Broadsides: Job Printing in the 19th-century Seaport
By Stephen O. Saxe, N.Y. South Street Seaport Museum (New York, Irene Tichenor, Wendy Shadwell, Elliot Willensky, South Street Seaport Museum (New York, N.Y.), Ginna Johnson Scarry, Kate Gordon
Published by South Street Seaport Museum, 1985

The John Johnson Collection: Catalogue of an Exhibition
By Bodleian Library
Published by Bodleian Library, 1971

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection
By Bodleian Library Staff, Julie Anne Lambert
Published by Bodleian Library, 2001

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Baking Powder Billheads

In 1843 the first modern version of baking powder was discovered and manufactured by Alfred Bird, a British chemist. In 1846, Justus Von Liebig in Germany experiments with yeast made from sodium bicarbonate and hydrochloric acid with explosive results. In 1885, Eben Horsford and George Wilson manufacture chemicals which eventually became the Rumford Chemical Works. Horsford formulated and patented Rumford Baking Powder, the first calcium phopshate baking powder. In 1889, William Wright and chemist George Rew developed a double-action baking powder marketed under the name Calumet Baking Powder. Below find some examples of baking powder billheads.

Rubber Goods

The rubber industry in the United States can hardly be said to have had any real and tangible existence until the discovery of the process of vulcanization in 1844 by Charles Goodyear. The first rubber ever imported into this country was brought into Boston in the year 1800 and came in In that same year a patent was granted to one Jacob Hummel, of Philadelphia, for a gum-elastic varnish; of which, however, there seems to have been no further mention. Some ten years later, in 1823, a Boston sea-captain, coming from South American ports, brought with him a pair of gilded rubber shoes which excited the greatest interest. Two years later, 500 pairs of rubber shoes, made by the natives along the Amazon, were brought into Boston, this time without the fantastical refinement of gilding. They were exceedingly thick, clumsy, and unshapely shoes, and yet they sold readily, bringing from $3 to $5 per pair as they were found that they were a secure protection against dampness. This was the e

Billhead of the Month: Schmit Bros trunks Oshkosh WI

I picked up this Schmit Brothers billhead recently in Eau Claire. I currently have it for sale on ebay right now. It is a nice triple graphic billhead. Here is my ebay write up: 1895 billhead for The Schmit Brothers Trunk Company manufacturers of trunks, traveling bags and valises of Oshkosh Wisconsin. Great header graphics with three images. Left side is the firm’s mill at Summit Lake, middle is the firm’s factory and left side is the firm’s warehouse. Billhead has creases. Peter Schmit was born in 1840 in Prussia. He emigrated to the U.S. in June 1854 and located inRacine WI. He was engaged in farming until 1861 when he enlisted in Company D, 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He engaged in the battles at Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Mine Run, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah. He was mustered out in June 1865. He came back to Racine and kept a hotel until 1866 when he joined his brother Henry’s trunk business. Henry had established the bus

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