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Creator
Fisher, Blashfield and Company (New York, N.Y.)
Call number
MssCol 1009
Physical description
6 linear feet (11 boxes)
Language
Materials in English
Preferred Citation

Fisher, Blashfield and Company records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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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.

Biographical/historical information

Fisher, Blashfield and Co. was a wholesale dry-goods firm active on Pearl Street and Cortlandt Street in Manhattan during the mid to late nineteenth century. The firm did business with other firms located chiefly in New York City and New York State, but also in neighboring states and 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.

Scope and arrangement

Records of the firm and its successors date from 1845-1867, with the bulk dating from the 1840s and 1850s. Included is business correspondence; customers' and firm accounts; sales books (describing daily sales); shipping records; and customers' credit ratings. These provide a detailed picture of the dry-goods business (the type of items sold, their prices, the method of doing business, the names and addresses of dry-goods wholesalers and retailers, the volume of business) during this period, particularly in New York City.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

October 4, 1955, Received from Purchase

Processing information

Accessioned by Julie Miller, November 21, 1988

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328