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Description: The collection contains 62 financial volumes and one envelope of ephemera for the Foy Brothers saddler and harness business in Los Angeles. Many of the volumes have items in them including correspondence, receipts, invoices, handwritten notes, etc. These were left in place. The ephemera includes receipts, invoices, tax information and receipts, a business license, and a catalog for "S.C. Foy...Manufacturer and Dealer In...Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Lap Robes, Dusters and Nets, Etc. Los Angeles, Cal." These financial volumes give insight into the Foy Brothers' business in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. They did business with many prominent Californians including Abel Stearns, Pio Pico, and Phineas Banning.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1854-1925
Call number: mssFoyb
Creator: Foy Brothers (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Gift of Mary E. Foy, November 1938.

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Foy, John Moran, (-1892.)

Foy, Samuel Calvert, (1830-1901.)

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