1888 Wm D Cleveland & Co Houston Wholesale Grocers Cotton Factors Invoice Salmon For Sale

Original 1888 wholesale merchant billhead and invoice from Wm. D. Cleveland & Co., Wholesale Grocers and Cotton Factors located at Main & Commerce Streets in Houston, Texas (Cleveland Building). Dated February 8, 1888, and billed to Schulenberg. The extensive multi-line handwritten itemized list includes various dry goods and provisions such as rice, tobacco (Tobe), lye, coffee, caddy black tea, matting, salmon, green peas, lima beans, poppy seed, lentils, washboards, powder, cream corn, soda, plug tobacco, Shaker pipes, and French prunes, with a total amount due of 93.51 including drayage and packing. Measures approximately standard invoice size with vintage edge wear and folds typical of 19th-century commercial documents.

Houston, Tex., Febry 8th 1888

Messrs G. Bohrms and Co / Schulenberg

Bought of Wm. D. Cleveland & Co.

WHOLESALE GROCERS & COTTON FACTORS, MAIN & COMMERCE STREETS.

(Cleveland Building)

[Itemized handwritten list:]

1 Bl Co Rice

1 Ck Dr Johus Tobe

2 Cases Sever Lye

1 24oz Causo Tobe

1 Coffer / Grates

1 Cady Blk Tea

1 G.P.

3 Mats Ciu Bark

1 Case C R Salwon

1 Bl Green Peas

1 Bl Lima Beans

25# Poppy Seed

25# Lentils

1 Doz 17in W W Boards

1 Pail 9# Bon Bon B Powder

1 16oz

1 8oz

1 x Cream Crox

1 Cht 1# Soda

2 Plug Swe Tobe

1 Doz Shaker Pipes

1 French Prunes

Drayage

Packing

Total: 93.51