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Total number of records: 48

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Business Archives44
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records48
textile industry42
commercial correspondence15
letters2
scrapbooks2
architectural drawing1
chemical industry1
cleaning and dyeing industry1
diaries1
dyes and dyeing1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Adolph Jacobs and Company Limited1
Airedale Mill Company Limited1
Akroyd, Jonathan1
Casson, Thomas1
Christopher Waud and Company1
Crockatt Family1
Crockatt, Douglas1
Crockatt, John1
E. Fox and Sons Limited1
Edward Ripley and Son1

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From 16003
From 17004
From 180034
From 19007

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Up to 18999
Up to 199939

Archive Collection

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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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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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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Joseph Lee, Business Archive

Joseph Lee

1675-c.1834

A volume used for different purposes at various periods and by a merchant concern (1675-92) previous to its use by Lee,1675-92. Invoices of cloths (plus a few skins) bought and sent to Mr John Sykes (...

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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 Foster and Son, Business Archive

John Foster and Son

c.1820-1950

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

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Thomas Hield and Sons, Business Archive

Thomas Hield and Sons Limited

1906-1916

Comprises: (1) Letter book, 1906-7; (2) General ledger, 1907-11, with a separate index inserted; (3) Order book, 1912-16.

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John Hirst and Sons, Business Archive

John Hirst and Sons

c.1890-1900

Comprises: (1) Weave designers' notebook; (2) Sample and weave patterns made by Tom Woodcock, late of 43 North Farm Road, Leeds.

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Lister and Company Limited, Business Archive

Lister and Company Limited

1889-1952

Comprises: (1) Prospectus including Memorandum of Association of Lister and Company Limited, 1889; (2) Annual reports of the Directors, and statements of accounts, 1889-1948, 1952

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Parkwood Mills Company Business Archive

Parkwood Mills Company; John Broadbent and Sons; Longwood Finishing Company

1817-1923

Comprises: (1) Stock records, 1826-73; (2) Day books, stock and sales, 1842-61; (3) Mill ledgers, 1848-1918; (4) Sales and purchase records, 1817-1904; (5) Cash and bank books, 1841-1918; (6) Wage ...

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John Raistrick and Sons, Business Archive

John Raistrick and Sons

1864-1893

Comprises: (1) Order book, 1864-77, with a few other papers inserted; (2) Correspondence, in a letter book, with W.H. Chard and Company, Sydney, and W. Pearce and Company, Durban, 1875-90, together wi...

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William Rhodes Limited, Business Archive

1845-1937

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

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