Credit ledgers, 1840-1895 (inclusive).

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Credit ledgers, 1840-1895 (inclusive).

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Credit ledgers, arranged by state, thereunder by county or city. Handwritten entries , made in the New York office, from field reports. Most volumes have name indexes. Here may be found reports on thousands of firms across the country, many for a considerable span of time. The reports are fullest from the 1850's to the 1870's. A few records of the firm's own business before 1900 are included. A separate sequence of volumes contains reports on lawyers.

249 linear ft. (ca. 2580 v.)

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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In 1841 Lewis Tappan established the Mercantile Agency in New York City to gather credit information on merchants from the United States and Canada doing business in the New York market. Benjamin Douglass acquired sole ownership in the Agency in 1854, and he was bought out in 1859 by Robert Graham Dun. R.G. Dun & Company maintained offices around the country to supply credit data on firms and individuals to the New York office. The company then in turn sold these credit reports to individual...