St Paul Minnesota 1922 Finch Van Slyck McConville Dry Goods Billhead 8 x 7

This 1922 billhead from Finch Van Slyck McConville documents a wholesale dry goods transaction issued from its Saint Paul headquarters during the interwar retail expansion.

Dry goods wholesalers served as the connective tissue between textile manufacturers and small-town merchants, distributing ready-made clothing, notions, and household fabrics across regional rail and road networks. Firms based in Minneapolis and Saint Paul operated as Upper Midwest hubs, supplying rural general stores and mercantiles with standardized merchandise suited to rapidly modernizing consumer demand.

The illustrated masthead identifies Finch Van Slyck McConville as jobbers, manufacturers, and importers of dry goods and furnishing goods. The invoice is addressed to La Grandeur Mercantile in Somerset, Wisconsin and records quantities of quilts and pants with itemized pricing and handwritten accounting marks. Printed terms, ruled columns, and stamped receipt notations preserve the structure of early twentieth-century wholesale paperwork in a compact 8 x 7 inch format.

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