Subject: Mercantile firms

Three advertisements for the mercantile firm of Humes & Etting, published in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser on November 1, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The partnership lasted only two years. The advertisements are included within a larger periodical, *Accounts of the Guardians of the Poor and Managers of the Alms House of and House of Employment*.

Billhead featuring a lithograph of an eagle perched on a book. The billhead displays the name "B. ILLFELDER & CO." along with the address "60 JOHN STREET; New York, New York." The date December 30, 1885, is also present. This billhead is part of a larger collection of financial records.

Billhead from Cahn, Nickelsburg & Co., located at 129 & 131 Sansome Streets and 115 & 117 Hayes Street, San Francisco, California. The date is January 16, 1896. This is a financial record from a mercantile business.

Billhead from the mercantile firm of Deutsch and Frank, located at the corner of Main Plaza and Commerce Street in San Antonio, Texas. Dated December 4, 1887.

Billhead from the mercantile firm Fiegel, M. & Bro., dated June 7, 1878. The billhead was sold to and endorsed by the New York City Fire Department.

Billhead from Frank, Wolf & Co., located at 47 North Third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The billhead is dated October 8, 1888, and features a lithograph of a store. The archival material is a billhead, suggesting its use in commercial transactions.

Billhead from Frankenthal & Co., dated November 23, 1876. The billhead indicates the company's location as the southwest corner of Battery and California Streets, San Francisco, California. The item is a manuscript/mixed material financial record.

Billhead from Goetter, Weil & Co., located at 5, 6 & 7 Court Square and 132 & 134 Lee Street, Montgomery, Alabama. The billhead also lists a New York City office located at 43 Elm Street. Dated January 27, 1888.

Billhead from the firm of Hecht, L. & Hecht, S., located at 109 North Third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The billhead is dated April 22, 1852. The archival materials are from the collection E, and the item is located in Arc.MS.56, Box 11, Folder 9.

Billhead from the mercantile firm L & S Hecht, located at 109 North Third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The billhead is dated September 29, 1852. This item is a single billhead, suggesting it may be one of many from the firm's records.

Billhead from L. Dinkelspiel & Co., located at 111 Battery Street, between California and Pine Streets, San Francisco, California. The billhead is dated May 6, 1872, and indicates a sale to A. Cohen. It also mentions the New York City office, Dinkelspiel, Rothfeld & Co., located at 72 Thomas Street, New York. The company was active in Jewish affairs.

Billhead from Lewis Brothers, located at 213, 215 & 217 Battery Street, San Francisco, California. Dated July 2, 1876. The billhead is part of a collection of financial records.

Billhead from the firm of Lindenthal & Solomon, located at Austin Avenue, Waco, Texas, and 66 Lispenard Street, New York City. The date on the billhead is May 1, 1874. This item is a financial record from a mercantile business.

Billhead from Oelrichs & Co., a mercantile firm, dated September 1, 1866. The billhead is part of a larger collection of financial records. Geographic location: New York.

Billhead from the mercantile firm of Pollock / Block, located at 415 & 517 North Second Street, St. Louis, Missouri. The billhead is dated October 5, 1872. This item is a manuscript/mixed material, specifically a financial record in the form of a billhead.

Billhead from the firm Porter, Oppenheimer & Slessinger located at 7 & 9 Battery Street, San Francisco, California. The billhead is dated September 7, 1877, and indicates payments are to be made in U.S. Gold Coin.

Billhead from Rosenthal, Feder & Co., located at 33 & 35 Battery Street, San Francisco, California. The date on the billhead is September 16, 1890. The billhead also mentions "Vingette of Shoemaker".

Billhead from Schweitzer, Sachs & Co., located at 29, 31, & 33 Sansome Street, corner of Bush Street, San Francisco, California. The date on the billhead is September 5, 1883. The billhead also indicates that the lithography was done by L. Stiefel at 20 Walker Street, New York City.

Billhead from the mercantile firm of Triest & Friedlander, dated April 6, 1865. The billhead lists addresses in San Francisco, California (218 and 220 Battery Street) and New York City, New York (39 Broadway).

Billhead from W & I Steinhart located at 12 Battery Street. The billhead features a vignette of a clipper ship and specifies payment in U.S. gold. The bill was made out to A. Cohen. Date: May 25, 1868.

Billhead from W. & I. Steinhardt & Co., located at 3 & 5 Battery Street, San Francisco, California. The billhead is dated May 28, 1890. It includes a vignette seal of California and also mentions Steinhardt, Heidelberg & Co. at 384 & 386 Broadway, New York.

Billhead from the firm of Weil & Weil, located on Front Street between Washington and Alder Streets in Portland, Oregon. The billhead is dated May 28, 1863, and indicates a "Great Litho of Store." The item is part of the E Collection.

Billhead of Wolff, J. & Brothers, located at the southwest corner of Third and Noble Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated March 24, 1853. The billhead also includes a reference to a membership list of the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia from 1874.

Two billheads from Jacob Adler & Co., a Baltimore-based mercantile firm. One billhead, dated March 1, 1884, and the other dated February 21, 1884, were printed on pink paper. The billheads advertise "CONSIGNMENTS OF FRUITS, FURS, FEATHERS AND PRODUCE GENERALLY" and list the firm's addresses as 54 S. Howard Street and 288 and 290 W. Pratt Street. Jacob Adler and his brother-in-law Herman Cone were partners in Jonesborough, Tennessee in the early 1850s, moving to Baltimore in the early 1870s. Additional business information is from March 1, 1878.

A one-page, stampless business letter written on May 1, 1849, from Alexander & Lowman of Cincinnati, Ohio, to Jacobs & Mayers (or Jacob & Meyer) Co. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letter pertains to business dealings between the two firms.

Three-page commercial letter written by Isaac Cohen of Isaac Cohen & Co. in Savannah, Georgia, to Joshua Bicknell, Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island, dated September 18, 1816. The letter discusses business conditions in Savannah, including high rents, the failure of several mercantile firms (Pelot & Merrick, Isaac Merrick & Co., and Peter Schenk & Co.), the cotton and rice markets, and the health of the city.

Collection of eight telegrams sent between April and September 1878, primarily from David Neahr in Yuma, Arizona, to L.M. Jacobs & Co. in Tucson, Arizona. The telegrams, imprinted with the War Department, Signal Service U.S.A. (Form No. 1), detail business transactions involving money transfers, shipping of goods, and delivery information related to the firm's mercantile and banking operations.

Buckle Disc - HERE ARE THREE RARE BUCKLE DISCS. THE FIRST ONE IS FROM M COHEN AND BROTHER SAN FRANCISCO CAL. THE SECOND ONE IS MARKED TAUSSIG POLLACK AND COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO AND THE THIRD IS MARKED POLLACK BROTHERS NEW YORK. THESE COMPANIES WERE ALL SUPPLIERS OF GOODS FOR THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. ALL THESE BUCKLES ARE RARE AND EACH ONE COMES WITH AN ORIGINAL BELT KEEPER....circa 1855 2 0f 3

Three rare buckle discs from the California Gold Rush era (circa 1855). The first is from M. Cohen and Brother, San Francisco, CA; the second from Taussig, Pollack and Company, San Francisco; and the third from Pollack Brothers, New York. These companies supplied goods during the Gold Rush. Each buckle includes its original belt keeper.