Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Waxed Paper: Erie Railroad Bill of Lading

As we head towards the holidy season, candy companies are also entering one of their biggest seasons.  In addition to making the candy, the firms also need to worry about packaging.  Over 110 years ago, Rochester Candy Works ordered a lot of waxed paper from The Hammerschlag Manufacturing Company in Garfield, New Jersey, which shipped the lot by rail via the Erie Railroad to Rochester, N. Y. 









ERIE
APR
RR.     19    CO.
1901
GARFIELD,
N.J.

Langlois scan

The Erie RR cancel above takes the diamond form of the Erie RR logo:





Tuesday, July 30, 2013

International Pulp Company


INTERNATIONAL PULP. CO.
JUN
14
1899



INTERNATIONAL PULP CO.
FEB
27
1900

Langlois scans


International Pulp was first featured on this site back in June 2012.  International Pulp, like many forest products firms, also engaged in other industries that took advantage of their large land holdings.  In this way Internatinoal Pulp became an asbestos firm. 

Monday, July 29, 2013

International Paper Company


International Paper's +50 year old brand logo designed in the early 1960s by Lester Beall.  Organized in 1898 of of sixty smaller paper firms, the company continues today as the largest paper and pulp company in the world.  The company is based in Memphis, Tennessee.



INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.
SEP
17 & 20
1898
NEW YORK.

Langlois scan


Sunday, July 28, 2013

Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company Promissory Note


PHOENIX PAPER MFG CO

Seven 2c stamps placed "tapeworm" style on a promissory note




Seven 2c documentary stamps for a total of 14 cents were used to pay the taxes on this $620 promissory note. 


Very little shows up in the historical record I have access to regarding the Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company.


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

New York Stock Brokers: Jacob Kirkner




J. KIRKNER
JAN
9
1902
NEW YORK.

David Thompson scan & highlight




Jacob Kirkner was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Produce Exchange.


The New York Times, December 15, 1909:

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Samuel Simpson & Company


SAMUEL SIMPSON & CO.
1
AUG
1899
PHILADELPHIA.

David Thompson scan & hightlight



There is little history available to me on Mr. Simpson and his company, save for the report of a legal case between owners of the firm Samuel Simpson & Company in the 1901 Pennsylvania State Reports.

Samuel Simpson & Company was reported to be in the business of importing and selling goat skins and other merchandise at 429 North Third Street in Philadelphia. 

Due to legal issues in a firm in which a J. Harry Lyons was involved, he could not become a partner in a new firm.  Samuel Simpson & Company was established when the mother of J. Harry Lyons, Elizabeth J. Lyons, established a firm with Mr. Samuel Simpson in which J. Harry Lyons would be employed with a salary. 

The firm Samuel Simpson & Company would be reasonably successful, but with the end of the partnership in March 1899, Mr. Simpson treated Mr. Lyons as his true partner and refused to open the books of the firm to Elizabeth Lyons.  Hence the court case ensued.

By the date of this cancel in August 1899 it is clear that some aspects of the firms operation were still underway after March 1899. 



Sunday, July 7, 2013

F. DeHass Simonson


Front page advertisement
The Newtown Register, May 16, 1911




F. DeHASS SIMONSON
APR
12
1900
ELMHURST, N.Y.

Langlois scan




Monday, July 1, 2013

American Telephone and Telegraph Company


AMERICAN TELEPHONE
DEC
19
1899
& TELEGRAPH CO.



XXX Other ATT scans here?

Corporate structure