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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...
Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)
1801-2000
The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...
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...
Henry Briggs, Son and Company Limited, Business Archive
1865-1961
Minute books of the coalmaster's company.
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...
Advertising material of William Blackburn & Co.
Blackburn family
early 20th century
Includes a booklet with scale of sizes for Spring 1886 inlcuding images of the warehouse on front and back; An appointment postcard; A advertisement for Boys outfits; A booklet adveritising their clot...
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...
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...
Association of Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers Leeds, Archive
1899-1933
Vol.1, 1899-1914; vol.2, 1915-1918; vol. 3, 1925-1933