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textile industry4
business records2
woollen and worsted manufacture1
commercial correspondence1

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George Crowther and Company1
Calverley Family1
Calverley, Sir Walter First Baronet (1670-1749)1

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Archive Collection

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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George Crowther and Company Limited, Business Archive

George Crowther and Company

1833-1883

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

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Archive Collection

George Hattersley and Sons Limited, Business Archive

1845-1888

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

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Papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall

1749-1897

The papers in this collection consist largely of legal documents and correspondence, of which very many are copies or drafts. No attempt has been made to describe the latter more closely than as 'draf...

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Archive Sub-collection

Additional papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall

1756-1897

The Leeds White Cloth Hall papers (MS 283) were listed in Handlist 2, now supplemented by the list on pp 484-517 of The West Riding Cloth industry : a catalogue of business records, compiled by Patric...

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