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Happy Birthday George Washington!

I have always been a huge Washington fan. In high school I was lucky to visit Mount Vernon and loved it. The Library of Congress has put together a bibliography on Washington. First off, let's start with billheads and letterheads with a graphic of George.

Antique Scrapbook - Part IV

Lion Brewery Pilsner Beer / Otter & Sable  Pens / Rough on Rats / Stoves / Merino  Angel / Bitters / Warner's Safe Cure / King Bee can label scrap Clarke's Blood Mixture / Red Jacket Bitters / Radish / Tarrant's Seltzer / Kinney Cigarettes Child's boot fastener / Cloth collar / Nestles  Royal Baking Powder label / Bitters / radish label / Guinness beer label Cutlery / BF Brown polish / Miller canes umbrellas / Durham tobacco  Old Hickory cement / Plows / Major's cement / Hess Gold Clip tobacco / Crane NY Refining Eagle / Langtry / Jeweler trade card / MF Tobin trade card Jumbo elephant trade cards / Buffalo Lithia water CI Hood booklet cover / Spencerian Steel Pens Hood booklet cover / Eagle Globe Brand Benson's Capcine porous plaster / Hair pins  1883 diary Zodiac cover / Victor rheumatic card / Kingsford starch / cheese  bandage

Billhead of the Month - Charles Groff

This billhead has everything you could want. Awesome graphic, great decorative printing. When you would get this with your product, you had to have been impressed with Groff's business. Bibliographical information: November 9, 1889, decorative graphic billhead for Culina Mills. Sole Manufacturers of Charles R. Groff. Celebrated Snow Flake Baking Powder. Located at 346 & 348 Sibley Street , St. Paul Minnesota . Striking left side graphic of a woman on a horse with a spear in hand, fighting a tiger that has latched onto the horse. Printed by the National Bureau of Engraving of Philadelphia . History: Mathew Groff, father of Charles, was a painted by trade. He eventually became a partner in the drug firm Wren, Groff & Regally and thus began the manufacturer of Snow Flake Baking Powder. The receipe for the same passed to his son Charles on his death. Charles Groff began making baking powder in Minnesota in 1874 under the “Snow Flake” trademark as secretary and genera...