A trade card from Davies' Pioneer Soap featuring a color illustration of the cotton exchange at Ross's Landing. The illustration includes adrawings of a paddlewheel riverboat in the background as well as a scene of African Americans loading cotton onto barges from mule driven carts.
The card is captioned "You get a beautiful Card with every Cake of DAVIES' PIONEER SOAP. Warranted a pure seal. Will make the Clothes WHITE AND CLEAN with very little labor. Ty it Ask your grocer for Pioneer Soap and Card"
Collection
Chattanooga Business Collection
Publication Details
Publication Type
Tradecard
Place Published
* Untyped Place Published
Buffalo, New York
Date Published
circa 1879 - circa 1886
Notes
"The company’s history can be traced back to Hugh M. Clay who had worked in lithography firms for ten years before going into partnership with Herman Cosack in 1864 to form Clay, Cosack & Company. The company printed a variety of lithographic products to include; chromolithographs, trade cards, art prints, seed packets, medicine labels, tourist cards etc.
In 1879, Clay left the firm to start a new partnership with Henry A. Richmond to form Clay & Richmond. Their firm concentrated on printing chromolithographic trade cards and labels, and when Clay retired in 1886, the company became the Richmond Lithographing Company . In 1896, the firm changed its name yet again to the Niagara Lithograph Company after it was purchased by Hugo R. Monro, John J. McWillams (who served as president), and his son-in-law Horace Reed. After McWilliams death in 1912, Reed took over the company." https://buffaloah.com/a/niag/1050/1050.html
