Magid-Hope Silk Manufacturing Company financial ledger, 1900.

These papers include records from Magid's company and his personal library. Several drafts of the prospectus for his Sericulture and Manufacturing Company of America, Inc. are contained in the first box. Other company records include correspondence between Magid and his colleagues in the silk industry. There are also two ledgers detailing financial transactions. Magid also collected educational information on the history of the silk industry.

Boxes 2-7 contain materials from his personal library. Magid kept an alphabetical card index to all the articles, newsclippings, and journals that he owned. This filing card system is housed in Boxes 3-4. The remainder of the collection contains the publications which include government reports, supply catalogs, advertisements, and journals in Chinese, English, French, German, and Italian. Most are marked by a "Louis B. Magid Library" stamp with its identifying file number.

Sample pattern books are housed in Boxes 7-8. Some are black and white; others are in color. Most have Chinese writing describing the patterns.