Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited, Business Archive
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited, Business Archive
Classmark: BUS/Jowitt
Creator(s): Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited(); Jowitt, John (1811-1888)(); Jowitt, Robert (1784?-1862)()
Date(s): 1775-1955
Language: English
Size and medium: 170 vols and 1 large tin
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6943
Collection group(s): Business Archives
Description
Summary of Contents:
I. Debtors and Creditors Ledgers. 1775-1911.
II. Private Ledgers (several series). 1803-1913.
III. Journal (Stock). 1896-1901.
IV. Correspondence. 1775-1909.
V. Cash books. 1805-71.
VI. Wool sales/purchases. 1831-1916.
VII. Information on other concerns. 1839-1913.
VIII.Executors' accounts and miscellaneous papers. 1833-57.
IX. Ledgers and Journals. 1905-41.
X. Specific Mill or Branch Books. 1904-52.
XI. Financial Records. 1914-55.
XII. Costings Books. 1927-52
XIII. Miscellaneous stock, insurance, sales, imports, and production books. 1908-49.
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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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Industries of Yorkshire, Part I, Yorkshire (1888), p. 88; Leeds Journal. Vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1951), p. 124; W. R. Millmore, 'Traders in wool for
nearly two centuries', Wool Record. Vol. 30 (1926), pp. 851-3; Vol. 79 (1951), pp. 2197-8; A. Barnard, 'Wool buying in the nineteenth
century: a case history', Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research. Vol. 8, no. 1 (June 1956), pp. 1-12.
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Biography or history
Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited, of 153 Sunbridge Road, Bradford, were wool merchants, top makers, wool combers, wool scourers, carbonisers and fell mongers, established in 1776.
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