Buffalo New York 1887 Jacob Dodd Pork and Beef Packer Billhead - 8.5 x 5.5

This Jacob Dodd pork and beef packer billhead was issued in 1887 and documents commercial meat distribution activity in Buffalo, New York, during the city’s late nineteenth-century industrial expansion.

As a major Great Lakes port and rail hub, Buffalo supported a dense network of packers, butchers, and provision dealers supplying both local markets and regional trade routes. Businesses like Jacob Dodd’s operated at the intersection of agriculture, transportation, and urban consumption, handling bulk meats at a scale that reflected the city’s role in national food distribution.

The billhead features an engraved masthead with trade imagery, decorative typography, and a clearly structured accounting grid listing quantities, contents, weights, and prices. Handwritten entries record pork and beef transactions, transforming the document from a printed form into a working business record. The compact format, period penmanship, and intact layout give the piece strong documentary value as a surviving artifact of everyday commercial practice in the 1880s.

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