Business partner of F. W. Woolworth. DS, signed “F. W. Kirby,” two pages, 8 x 13, January 1, 1900. Agreement between Kirby and Fay Dean in which Kirby hires Dean to be the manager of the F. M. Kirby and Company store in New Orleans, with Dean receiving a salary of $9.62 per week, “in addition to said salary shall be entitled to receive twenty per cent of the net profits of the said business as fixed and determined by said annual inventory.” Signed on the second page by Kirby as well as by Dean. Document is still housed in its original legal folio. Uniform toning to both pages, expected folds, and a small tear lightly affecting Dean’s signature, otherwise fine condition. An early-pre-Woolworth merger example. RRAuction COA.
