Print Advertisements - keep calling me back

Newspaper print advertisements seem to me to be "uncool" to collectors of graphics / typography. Today I was doing research for a soon to be listed ebay item and stumbled across the digitized "The Tobacco Leaf" journal. It is eight pages loaded with tobacco advertisements.

Ads for interest:

Page 2: Simon Strauss' store front advertisement with signage that he was a manufacturer of cigar boxes and also did ship ornamental carving. I looked up Strauss and he was a carver of cigar store Indians. He was also arrested in 1869 for setting fire to his store.

Page 3: Heppenheimer & Maurer Lithographers, Engravers and Printers of cigar, tobacco, wine and liquor labels. Example tobacco label on ebay: The Banker's Daughter.

Page 7: Large factory graphic for Lichtenstein Bros & Co. cigar manufacturers. Antique poster for sale through George Glazer Gallery.

Page 8: Far left side near bottom is an advertisement for a woman's business. Mrs. G.B. Miller & Company tobacco manufactory. Peter D. Collins was President. This firm was started by George Benjamin Miller around 1776. When George died in 1790, Mrs. Miller continued the business under her own name.

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Billhead Comparison - Booth

I thought it would be interesting to show two billheads for A. Booth Packing Company packers of oysters, fish and canned goods. I have handled a lot of Booth billheads for Chicago. Booth billheads are always pre-printed with the goods it sells. All of the Chicago billheads focus on the company's oysters brands.
This Chicago billhead has mainly pre-printed oyster products: oval, A. Booth, extra select, celery and fish. Nice decorative billhead with medals and factory scenes. The Chicago billheads also never indicated who printed it.

Along comes another Booth billhead, this one for the Duluth fisheries.
What I liked about this billhead was that it was pre-printed with the firm's fish offerings: whitefish, small trout, large trout, pike, pickerel and herring. This billhead also indicated in the upper left corner who printed it - Shober & Carqueville Litho Co. of Chicago.

For the history buffs, a little bit about Alfred Booth.

Alfred Booth was born in Glastonbury England, he…

Benjamin Tanner printer and engraver

Benjamin Tanner was born in New York City on March 27, 1775. At an early age he manifested a talent for drawing and designing, and after receiving his education he began to learn the art of engraving. Tanner's master is unknown, but he engraved in New York in 1792 and was possibly one of the pupils of Peter R. Maverick. In 1805, he moved to Philadelphia. In 1811, with his brother Henry S. Tanner he commenced business as a general engraver and map publisher. From 1816-1824 he was a member of the bank-note engraving firm of Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co.. In 183 established a blank check note and draft publishing office - known as his stereography business, which he abandoned in 1845 to Charles H. Butts.

His engravings include portraits of Washington, after Savage; Benjamin Franklin, after Charles N. Cochin (1822); "Apotheosis of Washington," after J. J. Barralet (1802) ; "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, 10 September, 1813," and " The Launch of the Ste…

Veterinary Billheads

I spend a lot of time at the vet. My German Shepherd/Border Collie mix, Gus, was diagnosed with diabetes last March. It has been a learning curve. Dogs are type I diabetics, thus they need insulin shots. Cats can be both, type I and II.

Anyway, sorry to digress - back to billheads. The billheads I have for veterinarians have a few commonalities - livestock graphics, i.e. horses or cows. So, cats, dogs, birds and other animals did not factor in to the early veterinary practice. Vets services were mainly advertised for farmers and businesses. Second, the majority advertise themselves as "veterinary surgeons."

Now a little history, prior to scientifically trained veterinarians, the American farmer in the later 19th century faced problems with illness among their livestock. When scourges hit, it was not uncommon to have an entire communities livestock wiped out. Thus, the American farmer resorted to relying on superstitions and what were called the "hoss" docto…

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