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Total number of records: 78

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Business Archives56
Quaker Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Cookery Collection1
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records78
textile industry53
commercial correspondence21
diaries8
trade associations6
boards of trade6
letters4
lubrication and lubricants industry3
scrapbooks2
british2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ford, Rawlinson Charles (1879-1964)2
Leeds Chamber of Trade2
Yorkshire Lubricating Oils and Grease Trades' Association2
Parkwood Mills Company1
Oates, Arthur Donald1
R.V. Marriner Limited1
Ripley, Edward1
Messrs Rhodes and Kitchener Limited1
Robert Clough Limited, Keighley1
Ripley, Henry William1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16005
From 17007
From 180047
From 190019

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189914
Up to 199962
Up to latest1

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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Crockatt family and business Archive

Crockatt Family

c.1818-1996

The archive includes business and family papers generated by the Crockatt family. The business papers encompass histories of the company, accounts, advertising material and correspondence. There are d...

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E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers

1903-1977

Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels...

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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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Skelton and Wells Leeds wine merchant, Business Archive

1785-c.1900

Comprises: i) Accounts: September 1785 - February 1791; ii) Accounts: January 1787 - December 1788; iii) Day book: January 1787 - November 1813; iv) Letter book, 1814 - 1832; v) Index to letter boo...

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Brotherton and Company, Business and family archive

1912-1960

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

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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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Alibert family of Conques-sur-Orbiel papers

Alibert family

1655-1915

Comprises wills, marriage contracts, details of lawsuits and mortgages, plans for improvements to the Mill of the Tournal, doctors' prescriptions, and miscellaneous other personal papers belonging to ...

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Marshall and Company, Business Archive

1788-1886

The firm was founded in 1788 by John (1765 - 1845), son of a Leeds draper, to take advantage of recent developments in the spinning of flax by machine. He set up a partnership with Samuel Fenton and R...

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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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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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Airedale Mill Company Limited, Business Archive

Airedale Mill Company Limited

1860-1931

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

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