St Paul Minnesota 1904 C C Emerson Produce Billhead Invoice 8.5 x 8

This 1904 billhead records a produce commission transaction handled by C. C. Emerson & Co. of St Paul, Minnesota, documenting wholesale produce sales during the peak era of urban food distribution.

Commission houses played a central role in supplying Upper Midwest towns with fresh fruits and vegetables, acting as intermediaries between growers and retail merchants. Firms like C. C. Emerson & Co. operated near rail terminals and city markets, coordinating consignments, pricing, and payment terms as part of the rapidly professionalizing produce trade at the turn of the twentieth century.

The document is dated January 21, 1904 and is addressed to a merchant in Somerset, Wisconsin. Line entries list crates of lettuce with quantities, weights, and prices, alongside printed commission terms and a bold red company imprint. The layout combines functional accounting fields with decorative branding and a circular trade emblem, preserving both business identity and transaction detail on a single commercial sheet.

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