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Total number of records: 80

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Business Archives58
Leeds Russian Archive2
Quaker Collection2
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records80
textile industry55
commercial correspondence23
diaries8
boards of trade6
trade associations6
letters4
lubrication and lubricants industry3
british2
scrapbooks2

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
Adolph Jacobs and Company Limited1
Airedale Mill Company Limited1
Akroyd, Jonathan1
Alibert Family1
Alibert, Michel1
Alibert, Olivier1
Association of Yorkshire Chambers of Commerce1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16005
From 17007
From 180049
From 190019

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189915
Up to 199963
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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Ledger giving details of dividends, legacies, loans, insurance premiums and other accounts between 1900 and 1963; compiled by Rawlinson Charles Ford

Ford, Rawlinson Charles (1879-1964)

1900-1963

Includes an alphabetical thumb index to names in the first 16 leaves

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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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Minute books and letter books of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce

Leeds Chamber of Commerce

1785-1938

The first volume covers the period 1785-93. The second volume begins with the refounding of the Chamber in 1851, after which the records are continuous. Item 1: 1785 - 1793 - Minute Book Item 2: 18...

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Minute books and letter books of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce

1917-1964

The letter books contain material dating from 1917-1934. The minute books date from 1938-1964.

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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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Minutes and agenda of the Association of Yorkshire Chambers of Commerce

Association of Yorkshire Chambers of Commerce

1958-1966

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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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SHANKS Collection

1881-1938

Photocopies of: Goode and McGill notes /1-2/; Agnes Ryan documents and correspondence, 1929-1935 /3-11/; Shanks family papers, 1826-1938 /12-13, 15-16, 21, 28-44/; business documents of Torgovo-Promys...

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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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