Papers, 1801-ca.1860.

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Papers, 1801-ca.1860.

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Consists primarily of bills and receipts for furniture made in Phyfe's shop. Forms represented include coffins, a counting house desk, tea tables, chairs, washstands, sideboards, bed boards, bureaus, sofas, bason stands, foot stools, a butler tray and stand, bookcases, etc. One of the bills also has two drawings of chairs with it. Also included is an inventory of the personal estate of Duncan Phyfe, which lists the contents of his home.

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Phyfe, Duncan, 1768-1854

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Duncan Phyfe was a furniture maker in New York City. Born in 1768 in Loch Fannich, Scotland, his family emigrate to Albany, N.Y. in 1783. Phyfe had probably served as an apprentice in his native country. He is believed to have had a small cabinetmaking shop in Albany, N.Y. Sometime before 1792, he moved to New York City where from the 1790s to 1847, he had a successful cabinetmaking business Partition St., which later became Fulton St. Phyfe's shop, which had almost 100 working craftsmen, attrac...