This week, we're sharing a 1900 catalog of sales premiums from L.H. Parke & Company for totally normal reasons because everything is fine and great.
L.H. Parke & Company was a wholesale distributor and importer of coffee, teas, spices, and other grocery items. The company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1889, when proprietors Louis H. Parke and brothers John M., William P.M., and Samuel F. Irwin joined forces to invest in Samuel's small grocery pushcart business. The company expanded over the decades, but remained a family business for the Irwins; William retired as its president in 1935, handing the company to the next generation of Irwins.
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