Broadside - Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co., Baltimore, Maryland, January 16, 1869

This item is a "PRICE CURRENT" broadside from Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co., successors of Odom, Clements & Co., Cotton Factors and General Commission Merchants, located at 87 Smith's Wharf in Baltimore, Maryland, dated January 16, 1869. The document lists prices for a wide range of goods and commodities, including beeswax, beans, cotton (with different grades like Upland, Middling, and Good Middling), dried fruit (apples, peaches, cherries), fertilizers, fish, flour, flaxseed, hides, greenbacks, lumbar, naval stores, peaches, pitch, rags, rice, seed, shingles, and tobacco. It also includes a "COTTON REPORT" table detailing stock and sales in various ports. The verso of the broadside is addressed by hand to James Sears in Gatesville, North Carolina. The typography is functional and characteristic of a commercial price list from the period.

Associated People/Businesses

• Wiesenfeld
• Stern

Geography

No geographic information available.

Subjects

• Broadside
• Price lists
• Cotton trade
• Commission merchants
• Agricultural products
• Mercantile
• 19th century
• Baltimore, Maryland

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 23, Folder 11