Foy Brothers Records
Finding aid prepared by Brooke M. Black.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Foy Brothers Records
Dates: 1854-1925
Collection Number: mssFoy brothers
Creator:
Foy Brothers (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Extent:
106 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 62 financial volumes and one folder of ephemera for the
Foy Brothers saddler and harness business in Los Angeles, California, dating from 1854 to 1925.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Foy Brothers Records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift from Mary E. Foy, November 15, 1938,
Biographical Note
Foy Brothers, a Los Angeles harness and saddler firm was founded in 1854 by Samuel Calvert Foy and his brother, John Moran
Foy. Their partnership continued until 1865 when John moved to San Bernardino to open his own firm; he died in 1892. Samuel
continued to direct the Los Angeles firm until his death in 1901.
Scope and Content
The collection contains 62 financial volumes and one folder 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.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in the following manner:
- Journals (9 volumes)
- Ledgers (8 volumes)
- Cash books (23 volumes)
- Miscellaneous Volumes (22 volumes)
- Ephemera (1 folder)
Each section is arranged chronologically except the miscellaneous volumes which are organized first alphabetically by volume
title or type, then chronologically.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Banning, Phineas,1830-1885
Foy, John Moran, d. 1892
Foy, Samuel Calvert, 1830-1901
Pico, Pío, 1801-1894
Stearns, Abel, 1798-1871
Corporate Names
Foy Brothers (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subjects
Business enterprises -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives
Harnesses
Saddlery -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Sources
Geographic Areas
Los Angeles (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Genre
Account books -- California, Southern
Business records -- California, Southern
Cashbooks -- California, Southern
Ledgers (account books) -- Califonrnia, Southern
Cashbooks (Volumes 18-40)
Miscellaneous (Volumes 41-62)
Volume 41
Client List.
[circa 1895]
Volume 53
Estimates of Shop Work.
1896-1901
Volume 61
Invoice Index File.
1892-1897
Volume 62
Invoice Index File.
1897-1901
Envelope
Ephemera folder
1869-1920
