San Francisco California Smith Brown Pork Packers 1870s Billhead - 8 x 7

This 1870s billhead documents commercial meat distribution in San Francisco during a period when pork packing supported both urban consumption and maritime trade.

Meat packers operated as essential intermediaries between livestock producers and city markets, supplying fresh and cured products to hotels, boarding houses, and households. Firms advertising hams, bacon, and lard reflect how preserved pork products fit into diets shaped by limited refrigeration and long supply chains.

The billhead is printed for Smith, Brown & Company, pork packers and dealers in hams, bacon, lard, hides, and wool, with offices on Sacramento Street and a packing house at the Potrero. It includes handwritten entries for pork and related items with quantities and prices recorded in gold coin, indicating both commodity value and transactional formality. The bold letterpress header combines trade identity with routine accounting in a single working document.

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