Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.)
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found: Its Special edition of Bullinger's postal and shippers guide for the United States and Canada, Jan. 1885:t.p. (The Mercantile Agency; New York, N.Y.)
found: The Mercantile Agency, c1941:t.p. (The Mercantile Agency; also: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., established 1841) p. [15] (formation of the Mercantile Agency announced July 20, 1841; began business in New York City, Aug. 1, 1841) p. 18 (R.G. Dun enters the Agency, ca. 1850)
found: Encyclopedia Britannica (WWW), Oct. 23, 2009(The Mercantile Agency was founded in New York City in 1841; changed its name to R.G. Dun & Company after 1859; merged in 1933 with the Bradstreet Company to form the most widely known mercantile agency, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)
found: Encyclopedia American (WWW), Oct. 23, 2009(article Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.: Dun & Bradstreet dates from 1841, when Lewis Tappan founded the Mercantile Agency. The present name was adopted in 1933 in an amalgamation of two credit information bureaus, R.C. [i.e. G.] Dun and Company and the Bradstreet Company)
found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(The name Mercantile Agency continued to be used in titles of publications after 1859, e.g. The Mercantile Agency reference book (and key).)
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1988-04-05: new
2014-12-18: revised
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