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Total number of records: 54

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business records42
textile industry41
commercial correspondence13
letters4
scrapbooks3
samples (commerce)1
woollen and worsted manufacture1
woolen and worsted manufacture1
foundries1
architectural drawing1

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R.V. Marriner Limited1
Parkwood Mills Company1
Ripley, Edward1
Robert Clough Limited, Keighley1
Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited1
Longwood Finishing Company1
Ripley, Henry William1
Longbottom, Edward1
Jowitt, John (1811-1888)1
Joseph Lee1

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Archive Collection

Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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Jonathan Akroyd Business Archive

Akroyd, Jonathan

c.1772-1802

Lane Head, Ovenden, near Halifax. Clothier, in partnership until c. 1782 with his younger brother James, founder of James Akroyd & Sons, stuff manufacturers, worsted spinners and merchants, 49 North...

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Henry Briggs, Son and Company Limited, Business Archive

1865-1961

Minute books of the coalmaster's company.

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John Bowling and Company Limited, Cyclops Foundry, Business Archive

1878-1954

Comprises the following records: (1) Wages books, 1886-1892; (2) Books of quarterly and annual balances, 1898-1951; (3) General ledger, 1886-1895; (4) Financial memorandum book, 1887-1896; (5) Books o...

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Archive Collection

Act of Parliament relating to Boothferry Bridge

1924-1925

Incomplete

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Calverley papers : petitions, letters and other documents from Sir Walter Calverley and others, concerning the Broadcloth Acts of 1725, 1733, 1741 and 1765

Calverley family

1639-c.1768

These papers mainly concern the renewal of the Broadcloth Acts in 1733 and 1741. They were given to the Library in 1922 by Mr Clarke-Thornhill. With one exception, they are listed here in chronologica...

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Edward Longbottom and family, Dyers of Batley, Business Archive

Longbottom, Edward

c.1831-1885

The collection has been divided into four groups: pattern books (numbers 1-4); recipe books (numbers 5-19); day books (numbers 20-27); and miscellaneous items (numbers 28-30). The pattern books con...

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Association of Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers Leeds, Archive

1899-1933

Vol.1, 1899-1914; vol.2, 1915-1918; vol. 3, 1925-1933

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William Ackroyd, Otley Mills, Business Archive

William Ackroyd Limited

1817-1963

Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances. -------

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