Author: Franco - American Food Company
Title: Potages Franco - Americains
Description: Jersey City Heights, NJ, Franco - American Food Company, 1895. First Edition. Brochure, n. d. (ca 1895); 6 x 3 1/2; single sheet of folded card stock, pp. [4]; chromolithographed illustrations to first and last page, text to pp. 2 and 3 in red and black; 2" offset to upper margin of last page from a removed piece of tape, else very minor wear - in very good to near fine condition. A beautiful and rare advertising piece, targeting the French market, it illustrated a cherubic-faced chef holding a stock pot of steaming soup and listed a variety of soups in different-sizes cans and tins. The Franco - American Food Company was founded in 1886 by French-American Alphonse Biardot. He opened a commercial kitchen with his sons in Jersey City and would rapidly gain success, specifically for their line of canned soup and pasta, which would be acquired by Campbell's in 1915. Very good .

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