Sacramento California 1870s McCreary Grain Flour Billhead 8 x 4.5

This 1870s Sacramento billhead records C. McCreary & Company’s grain and flour business during California’s post–Gold Rush agricultural expansion era period nationwide trade.

During the late nineteenth century, Sacramento functioned as a commercial gateway between California’s interior farming regions and urban markets. Grain dealers and flour mills formed the backbone of this economy, supplying bakeries, merchants, and households while linking rail transport, river shipping, and regional production into a unified trade network.

The billhead is printed for C. McCreary & Co., dealers and manufacturers of grain, advertising extra flour, corn meal, hominy, oat meal, and cracked wheat. Decorative mill emblems and bold product listings frame handwritten entries noting quantities and prices, preserving a working record of routine commercial exchange. The combination of engraved branding and manuscript notation makes the document a primary-source artifact of everyday business practice in nineteenth-century California.

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