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Total number of records: 15

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Business Archives11
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Brotherton Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records15
textile industry11
commercial correspondence4
letters1
flax spinning1
samples (commerce)1
english poetry1
diaries1
boards of trade1
coal mines and mining1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Messrs Rhodes and Kitchener Limited1
Marshall, John (1765-1845)1
Oates, Arthur Donald1
Willans, William (1800-1863)1
William Willans and Company Limited1
William and Jonn Clarkson Limited1
Marriner, William Lister (1825-1906)1
Longbottom, Edward1
Bowater, Richard1
Akroyd, Jonathan1

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From 16002
From 17002
From 180011

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17991
Up to 189914

Archive File

Notebook referring to the business activities of Oates Brothers (Halifax) Limited

1880-1889

Notebook of Arthur Donald Oates, Prospect House, Halifax, containing: (1) Technical notes on spinning, finishing, winding, reeling, warping, and drawing processes and the machinery involved; (2) Detai...

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Business records of Messrs Rhodes and Kitchener Limited

Messrs Rhodes and Kitchener Limited

1899

Comprises a full and detailed price list for tweed, sergerette, vicuna, serge, worsted, card, and velvet garments in several thousand styles

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BC MS Lt q 40, f.3r: The opening of the Earl of Halifax's poem
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Commonplace book of Richard Bowater, containing English poems, a library catalogue, and business accounts and correspondence.

Bowater, Richard

1694-1725

Comprises: (1) Ff. 1v-2r: list of books in a library; (2) Ff. 3r-16v: 9 English poems, largely on affairs of state, including items by Halifax, Milbourne, Pope, and Bold, apparently in the hand of Ric...

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