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T. K. Phillips & Co.Bookbinders and Blank Book Manufacturers505 Clay StreetSan FranciscoCalifornia 1.1. 1890, San Francisco Business Directory. First listing in the directories.2. Phillips Brothers, 1891,San Francisco Business Directory.3 . Phillips Brothers are still at 505 Clay but the founding brother, T. K.Phillips & Co. is listed at 511 Sacramento. 1899, San Francisco BusinessDirectory.4. A third Phillips arrives in the directory; Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden,Bookbinders, 508 Clay, (Phillips Bros. remain at 505 Clay and T. K. Phillipson Sacramento) . 1901, Crocker Langley S. F. Business Directory. This will bethe first listing, no listing in 1901 and relisted in 1902.5. T. K. Phillips is no longer listed. 1903, Crocker Langley S. F. BusinessDirectory.6. Phillips Brothers becomes William R. Phillips at 505 Clay. 1904, CrockerLangley S. F. Business Directory.7. W. R. Phillips & Co.. 1905, San Francisco Business Directory.8. Phillips & Van Orden Co., (less Smyth). 1905, San Francisco BusinessDirectory. This is the last directory before the 1906 San Francisco Fire,which would destroy this area.9. William R. Phillips & Co. 712 Sansome. AND: Phillips & Van Orden, 1617Mission. 1907 Crocker Langley S. F. Business Directory. (the first directoryafter the fire)10. Phillips & Van Orden Co. 509 Howard. 1908 &1909 then not listed in 1910,the last directory checked. Crocker Langley S. F. Business Directories.(William R. remains on Sansome in 1910)

William R. Phillips*Bookbinders & Blank Book Manufacturer505 Clay StreetSan FranciscoCalifornia 1*see T. K. Phillips for full listing of the many San Francisco Phillips bookbinders. 1. Phillips Brothers 1891-1903 became William R. Phillips, in 1904, and W. R.Phillips & Co. in 1905. 1903,’04, ’05, San Francisco Business Directory. Thisarea burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire.2. Printers and Bookbinder, 5721 Valllejo Street. May 1906 Relief Directory.3. William R. Phillips & Co. 712 Sansome. 1907, San Francisco BusinessDirectory, (the first directory after the fire). Still at this address in1908, the last directory checked.

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Daniel PierceBookbinder5 Warren StreetNew YorkNew York ( 1816) 1.1. Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.108.