Fisher, Blashfield and Company was a wholesale dry-goods firm active on Pearl and Cortlandt Streets in Manhattan during the mid to late nineteenth century. The firm did business with other firms located chiefly in New York State, but also in New...
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Fisher, Blashfield and Company was a wholesale dry-goods firm active on Pearl and Cortlandt Streets in Manhattan during the mid to late nineteenth century. The firm did business with other firms located chiefly in New York State, but also in New England, the South, and the Midwest. The firm was succeeded by Fisher, Cushing and Henderson; Fisher, Cushing and Co.; and Cushing, King and DeGraw. Collection consists of records of the firm and its sucessors. Included is business correspondence; customers and firm accounts; sales books; shipping records; and customers credit ratings. Records provide a detailed picture of the dry-goods business including type of item sold, prices, business procedures, names and addresses of wholesalers and retailers, and the volume of business during the period in New York City.
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