1880-1949
Founded in 1880, Zeh, Scherzer & Co. produced a wide range of products, including an exclusive series for Geo. Borgeldt & Co. (advertised in the 1921 image below). In 1949, they began using the name and backmark Scherzer & Co. or Scherzer…
The full-page view of the Youth's Companion's program for the "Official School Celebration of Columbus Day," published September 8, 1892, and scheduled for October 21, 1892.
1890-1922?
Frank Yergin sold his Paris, Illinois drugstore in 1890 with the intention of moving to Chicago to focus on manufacturing his own products. An advertisement for his Russian Oil is shown below; tin 1916, his wife is listed as the…
Photograph of the Dedication Ceremonies in the Manufactures Building, October 21, 1892, from Rand McNally's “Official Guide to the World’s Columbian Exposition”
Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works, 1893. This picture appeared in a promotional booklet celebrating the paternalistic labor policies of George Pullman. A year later Pullman's workers were at the center of a national strike of rail workers…