Jay T. Last Collection of Fashion: Honig & Schutter Business Correspondence: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Charla DelaCuadra.
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Title: Jay T. Last Collection of Fashion: Honig & Schutter Business Correspondence
Dates (inclusive): 1884-1890
Collection Number: priJLC_FASH_Honig
Collector:
Last, Jay T.
Extent:
approximately 65 items in 1 binder
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Prints and Ephemera
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Honig & Schutter business correspondence, a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Fashion Prints and Ephemera, contains
records of the Honig & Schutter clothing dealers of
Hazelton, Pennsylvania. The approximately 65 billheads and related documents from 1884 to 1890 focus on merchandise and supplies
purchased by Honig & Schutter, including clothing, footwear,
headwear, and accessories.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on September 23, 2015.
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[Item title]. Jay T. Last Collection of Fashion: Honig & Schutter Business Correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, which was
donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the fashion ephemera was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2013.
The Honig & Schutter records described in this finding aid were received by
the Library as part of other ephemera within the Jay T. Last Collection and is organized according to correspondent.
Background of the Jay T. Last Collection
The Jay T. Last Collection is an unparalleled archive of printed paper artifacts that documents American lithographic, social,
and business history. The collection began in the early 1970s when
physicist and Silicon Valley pioneer Jay Last moved to Southern California and started collecting citrus box labels he found
at local flea markets and rummage sales. As his collection grew,
Last realized that these labels conveyed important information about commercial printing, graphic design, and social history,
and he expanded his collection to include other forms
of American visual culture. Today this collection contains more than 200,000 lithographic prints, posters, and ephemera of
mostly nineteenth and early twentieth century American
origin and represents works by more than five hundred lithographic companies.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
Background of Honig & Schutter
Clothing, footwear, and headwear retailers Isaac Honig and George Schutter of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, sold merchandise for
men and children during the latter part of the 19th century.
Honig and his sons continued to operate the business into the 1930s under various names.
The Honig & Schutter business correspondence, a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Fashion Prints and Ephemera, contains
approximately 65 items that date from 1884 to 1890. The collection features billheads and related items sent to
Honig & Schutter of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, that document merchandise for men and children purchased for resale by the company,
including clothing; headwear;
footwear; and accessories such as men's collars, cuffs, neckwear, handkerchiefs, and gloves. Over 35 wholesale dealers are
represented in the collection.
The materials include predominantly handwritten billheads from a variety of businesses in and around the northeastern United
States, particularly New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Some billheads have engraved or
lithographed images of commercial buildings, although the majority contain only text.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
The collection is arranged in 1 binder alphabetically by correspondent.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Billheads.
Business records -- United States -- 19th century.
Letterheads.
Honig & Schutter -- Archives.
Clothing trade.
Dry-goods.
Hat trade.
Notions (Merchandise).
Shoe industry.
Binder 1
Honig & Schutter, A-Z by correspondent (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)
Physical Description: approximately 65 items