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William Lupton and Company Limited, Business Archive

Archive Collection: BUS/Lupton Contains digital media

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: William Lupton and Company Limited, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BUS/Lupton

Creator(s): William Lupton and Company Limited()

Date(s): 1694-1958

Language: English

Size and medium: 136 items comprising 112 vols and 19 boxes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6947

Collection group(s): Business Archives

Description

Comprises: (1) Ledgers containing nominal, private, and various personal accounts, 1748-1919; (2) Creditors ledgers and purchase data, 1790-1882; (3) Debtors ledgers and sales data, 1790-1888; (4) Day books, 1809-51; (5) Letter books, 1760-1851; (6) Cash books, 1801-51; (7) Stock and trading accounts and balances, 1812-1921; (8) Miscellaneous boxed material, private, personal, and business, ca.1694-1850s;


Also includes a separate accrual in 1978 of two manuscript notebooks and three printed documents items BUS/Lupton/132-136.


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Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections.


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Biography or history

William Lupton and Company Limited, of Whitehall Mills, Leeds, were woollen and worsted manufacturers and traders, was established as such in 1773. The company traded in various goods, particularly cloth, before this date. William Lupton (1700-1771) was a yeoman farmer and clothier. William's third son, Arthur Lupton (1748-1807), was a member of the committee which regulated the activities of the Leeds cloth halls. For the history of the family see: Lupton, C. A. - The Lupton family in Leeds.

System of arrangement

The BUS/Lupton catalogue is based on an historic inventory. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.

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Access

This collection is subject to various access conditions. Please see individual catalogue descriptions for further details on access.

Material in this collection may remain in copyright but further details are unknown. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available for tracing copyright status and ownership.

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