Image of an advertisement for butchers' tools and supplies sold by S. Oppenheimer & Company of Chicago, Illinois (with locations also in New York, Germany, and England); cutters, choppers, steam engines, rockers, stuffers, presses, and other tools and machinery are pictured with options and prices listed; text also advertises ingredients such as sausage casings, German potato flour, and spices. Date supplied by cataloger based on company and printer history; S. Oppenheimer & Co. expanded into Germany in the 1890s, and Skeen & Stuart operated independently until circa 1890. "Skeen & Stuart Stationery Co., Chicago."--text, top right of image. "S. Oppenheimer & Co. Sole agents for the United States & Canada. The Boss Spice Chicago New York London Hamburg"--text on shield, top right of image. "Deutsche Correspondenz wird geführt, wenn verlangt."--text, top and bottom margin. "We mail our Book, containing sausage recipes, Free to our customers, whenever desired."--text, left margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : color printed ; overall 58.42 x 42.55 cm (23 x 16 3/4 in.)
Advertising--Food Engines--Pictorial works Machinery--Pictorial works Meat industry and trade Tools--Pictorial works S. Oppenheimer & Co Intaglio prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Food Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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