1911 antique WOOD & BISHOP CO bangor me IRON FOUNDRY STOVES RANGES BILLHEAD For Sale

1911 antique WOOD & BISHOP CO bangor me IRON FOUNDRY STOVES RANGES BILLHEAD
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AI Disclosure: AI assistance was used in interpreting the handwritten documents and preparing this description. Some names and abbreviated entries remain November 16, 1911 illustrated billhead from Wood & Bishop Co., Iron Founders, Bangor, Maine, an established manufacturer of ranges, stoves, furnaces, tinware, and related household and commercial goods.

The company was established in 1839 and incorporated in 1894. Its foundry was located at 329–339 Main Street, with offices and salesrooms at 40–42 Broad Street in Bangor.

The billhead features a wonderful detailed engraved illustration of the company\'s extensive industrial foundry complex, showing multiple factory buildings, smoking chimneys, railroad tracks, and surrounding structures. The elaborate company heading includes decorative lettering advertising its iron-founding business.

The handwritten invoice records the purchase of various household and stove-related goods, including galvanized pails, stove pipe, dampers, a dish pan, a bent pan and other hardware. The document provides an interesting glimpse into early 20th-century Maine manufacturing, ironworking, and commercial trade.

An attractive example of illustrated industrial advertising ephemera, particularly appealing to collectors of Maine history, Bangor businesses, iron foundries, antique stoves, architectural factory engravings, and early American manufacturing.

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.

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