Memphis TN Businesses
Click Here to visit the Historic Memphis website as you can view many of the same historic Memphis invoice documents in alphabetical order by company name. In addition, this site contains the largest collection of historical Memphis information available anywhere on the Internet!
Historic Billheads & Invoices --
100 Years of Memphis Billheads 1846-1946
Billhead receipts and Invoices were commonly used in business transactions from 1860 to 1946. They can be found in today's transactions but they are less common. Many billheads were illustrated with fancy engravings and listed the company's name , address, various information and very often handwritten notes. Today they are considered vintage ephemera and are very collectible. In many cases a relative or ancestor may have owned the business or signed the document. Billheads are similar to today's letterheads except that they often make statements about the companies whose names are on the documents.
In 2015 Woody Savage and his brother Ken scanned over 1500 Billheads and invoices from the Estate Files of Hardeman County, Tennessee , housed in Bolivar, Tennessee. Over 200 of the files were from Memphis. Woody graciously sent copies of the Memphis files to us for use on the Historic-Memphis website. We felt this major gift deserved a separate page on the website and have added additional billheads that we own. We hope it will become a useful resource for those who are doing projects on early Memphis.