Trade card for the Boston Beef Packing Co., 187 Congress Street, Boston, Mass., undated

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

ca. 1878

GUSN

GUSN-248296

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Food enterprises
Butchers
Food enterprises - Butchers - Folder 1
Trade card for the Boston Beef Packing Co., 187 Congress Street, Boston, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Food enterprises
    - Butchers
      - Food enterprises - Butchers - Folder 1
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        Trade cards for Burke and Tracy, poultry products, location unknown, 1920-1940
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        Trade card for J.V. Fletcher & Co., beef, pork, lard, hams, Nos. 66 & 68 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for W.F. White, butter, cheese, lard, No. 10 Merchants' Row, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Nathan Robbins, poultry & wild game, Nos. 33 and 35 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Gay & Davis, beef, pork, butter, cheese, Duncklee's Block, 271 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, undated
        Trade card for Cushing & Currier, cheese, butter, eggs, 5 Merchants Row, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for N.K. Fairbank & Co's. Pure Lard Oil, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for N.K. Fairbank & Co's. Pure Lard Oil, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for N.K. Fairbank & Co's. Pure Lard Oil, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Rohe & Brother, pork and beef packers, lard refiners, general provision dealers, 266 West 33rd Street, New York, New York, undated
        Trade card for Chicago Packing & Provision Co., beef, pork, lard, hams, shoulders and bacon, canned & cooked meats, Chicago, Illinois, undated
        Trade card for the Riverside Poultry Yard, breeder of high-class Barred Plymouth Rocks, Light Brahmas and Brown Leghorns, Harry E. Sisk, Palmer, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Simpson, McIntire & Co. Diamond Creamery, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Gass, Doe & Co., butter, cheese, eggs, Nos. 61 & 63 Quincy Market, Boston, Mass., 1883
        Trade card for the Boston Beef Packing Co., 187 Congress Street, Boston, Mass., undated (current record)
        Trade card for Merrill & Mackintire, eggs, 170 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Anglo American Provision Co., Fowler Bros., Ltd., New York and Liverpool, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, undated
        Envelope for Genery Stevens, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, poultry at wholesale, 58 Bridge Street, Worcester, Mass., dated November 25, 1898
        Billhead for Shute & Merchant, dry & pickled fish, Gloucester, Mass., dated September 29, 1898
        Trade card for F.S. Mudgett, fresh fish, and oysters in their season, location unknown, undated
        Billhead for G.D. Jackson, fresh and salt fish, lobsters, oysters, corner of Myrtle & Anderson Streets, Boston, Mass., dated April 1, 1879
        Billhead for S.F. Woodbridge & Co., beef, pork, lard, hams, sausages, pigs' feet, tripe, tallow, Nos. 65 & 67 Quincy Market, Boston, Mass., dated May 19, 1869
        Billhead for John P. Squire & Co., pork, lard, and hams, 21 to 25 Faneuil Hall Market & 39 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., dated November 22, 1882
        Billhead for B. Johnson, Dr., mutton, 1 & 3 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., dated February 16, 1888
        Billhead for Harvey C. Smith, wholesale fish dealer, 33 Main Street, Gloucester, Mass., dated June 4, 1902
        Billhead for Harvey C. Smith, wholesale fish dealer, 33 Main Street, Gloucester, Mass., dated July 9, 1902
        Billhead for Nathan Robbins, poultry and wild game, Stalls nos. 33 and 35 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., dated 1867
        Billhead for Nathan Robbins, poultry and wild game, Stalls nos. 33 and 35 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., dated 1868
        Billhead for Alfred Jones' Sons, fish dealers, 140 & 142 Broad Street, Bangor, Maine, dated June 8, 1908
        Billhead for Nathan Robbins, poultry and wild game, Stalls nos.33 and 35 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., dated January 31, 1888
        Letterhead for Charles H. North & Co., packers, curers and wholesale dealers in provisions, 27 & 29 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., dated October 24, 1884
        Letterhead for John H. Vose, Eastern Agent for John P. Squire Co., dealers in pork, lard, hams, 235 Commercial Street, Portland, Maine, dated August 5, 1905
        Billhead for Brock & Nash, beef, pork, hams, lard, tallow, Nos. 37 & 39 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, Mass., dated February 1, 1888
        Trade card for Henry Mayo & Co., minced codfish, Boston, Mass., undated
        Bill of sale from Harvey C. Smith Wholesale Fish Dealer, Gloucester, Mass., Apr. 8, 1902
        Trade card, Edward E. Burnham & Co., wholesale dealers in and packers of fresh, dry and pickled fish, Brown's Wharf, Commercial Street, Gloucester, Mass.
        Envelope, Frank C. Pettis, wholesale & retail dealer in oysters, 447 South Water Street, Providence, Rhode Island
        Billhead for A. E. Mills & Son, butter, eggs, and poultry, 27 & 29 Commercial Street, Boston, Mass., ca. 1930

Description

The card verso shows a steer figure labeled with the different cuts of beef. The beef is "put up in Texas." A handwriiten note reads "after 1878."

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
packers
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

1 trade card ; 3 x 5 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.046.02.01.018

Image Dimensions

3 x 5 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Meat industry and trade

Description Level

Item

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