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Total number of records: 79

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Business Archives57
Quaker Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Cookery Collection1
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records79
textile industry54
commercial correspondence22
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

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From 16005
From 17007
From 180048
From 190019

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17991
Up to 189915
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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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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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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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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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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John Bancroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

John Bancroft and Company Limited

1885-1938

----------- 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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T. Berry (Bradford Limited), Business Archive

T. Berry Limited, Bradford

1906-1922

Comprises a cash book and several purchase, sales, and trade ledgers.

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Henry Booth and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Henry Booth and Sons Limited

1859-1949

Comprises a business journal for the years 1859-1867 and a letter dated 8 August 1949, from Alfred Booth, Director, explaining the terms used in the volume.

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Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Limited, Business Archive

Thomas Boyd Limited Leeds

1889-1932

Summary of Contents: I. Cash Books. 1889-1932. II. Ledgers. 1896-1923. III. Finishing Books. 1893—1913. IV. Employment and Wages Records. 1891-1917. I. CASHBOOKS. 1889-1932 These ...

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William and Jonn Clarkson Limited, Business Archive

William and Jonn Clarkson Limited

1855-1862

William & Jonathan Clarkson, Ltd Smale Well Mill, Pudsey. Woollen cloth manufacturers,

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