1869 White & Burdick, Druggists, Ithaca, NY Cover

This is a postal cover mailed from Ithaca, New York, to Templeton, Massachusetts. The envelope features a corner card advertisement for White & Burdick Druggists, located in Ithaca, New York. The cover is franked with a 3-cent United States postage stamp in the upper right corner, canceled by a circular date stamp. The postmark indicates the letter was processed on September 27 in Ithaca, New York. The sending business, White & Burdick, was a prominent retail and wholesale drug firm established in Ithaca during the 19th century by partners Charles H. White and Daniel W. Burdick. Operating from a storefront located directly opposite the local post office on East State Street, the company famously supplied pharmaceuticals, dissection tools, and student supplies to the Cornell University community for several decades.