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Total number of records: 55

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textile industry41
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letters4
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architectural drawing1
coal mines and mining1
diaries1
dyes and dyeing1
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Adolph Jacobs and Company Limited1
Airedale Mill Company Limited1
Akroyd, Jonathan1
Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1
Blackburn Family1
Borthwick, Oliver (1873-1905)1
Calverley Family1
Calverley, Sir Walter First Baronet (1670-1749)1
Christopher Waud and Company1
E. Fox and Sons Limited1

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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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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...

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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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Henry Briggs, Son and Company Limited, Business Archive

1865-1961

Minute books of the coalmaster's company.

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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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Archive Collection

Act of Parliament relating to Boothferry Bridge

1924-1925

Incomplete

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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...

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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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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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Association of Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers Leeds, Archive

1899-1933

Vol.1, 1899-1914; vol.2, 1915-1918; vol. 3, 1925-1933

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