Potages Franco - Americains

Jersey City Heights, NJ: Franco - American Food Company, 1895. First Edition. Very good. 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.