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Brotherton and Company, Business and family archive

Archive Collection: MS 1698

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Brotherton and Company, Business and family archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 1698

Date(s): 1912-1960

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 boxes; print, manuscript, photographs and blueprints

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7608

Description

Comprises: i) Business papers: correspondence, employee registers, blueprints and specifications; ii) Printed brochures, operating manuals and other printed items; iii) Photographs mainly relating to the business; iv) Family scrapbooks

Biography or history

In 1878 Edward Allen Brotherton, later Lord Brotherton of Wakefield, founded (with the backing of relatives) the first chemical company in Wakefield. It opened under the name of Dyson Sons and Brotherton at Calder Vale Road and formed the basis of an expanding and successful business, which later became Brotherton & Company.

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