Author: Janney & Andrews
Title: Price List of Jas. S. Kirk & Co. 's Laundry & Toilet Soaps, August 1st, 1883
Description: Philadelphia, Janney & Andrews, Importers, Wholesale Grocers, and Tea Dealers, 1883. First Edition. First edition; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4; pp. 1-20; salmon-colored wraps, tied with a string, printed and ruled in black; minor fading to wraps; light creasing to upper left corner; in very good or better condition. Presented by Janney & Andrews - a large wholesale operation in Philadelphia in the late 19th century - the price list represented the astonishing array of products of James S. Kirk & Company - one of the largest soap manufacturers in the world in the 1880s. James Kirk founded the company in 1839 in Utica, New York, moved it to Chicago in 1859, and by the turn of the century, it employed 600 workers and made approximately 100 million pounds of soap per year. In 1929, at the beginning of the Great Depression, the manufacturing plant was demolished and the business was sold to Proctor & Gamble. Apart from the price list for over a 100 different soaps, the booklet also contained a large, 9-page table of "free delivery points" (cities) throughout various states. Very good .

Keywords: Americana, Trade Catalog, Soap, Chicagoana, Abaa-Boston


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