THE EPHEMERA OF BUSINESS

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

More pages from the scrapbook. Some business advertisements include: American Arms Co. / Rising Sun Stove Polish / Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator / Anderson's Cough Cure / University Medicines / Schepp's Cocoanut / Elgin watches / J & P Coats thread / Boston baked beans / Augusta Healy's vegetable pills / Charter Oak City Shirt Co. / Jacob Hoffman brewery / Skilton Foote Co.'s Bunker Hill pickles / Solar Tip Shoes / Beef Canning Co. / Eldridge's safety halter / Pond's Extract / J. Hetherington / Kibbe Big Sandy cigar El

The neat thing about this scrapbook is the inclusion of cut out newspaper advertisements. Knox had a penchant for cutting out items that dealt with product / business trademarks. Also, the book is full of labels - there is a nice colorful selection of soap labels on the pages below.

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" doc...

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...