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Archive Collection

James France and Company Limited, Business Archive

James France and Company Limited

1838-1913

Miscellaneous records recording work done: 1) Day Book. June 1838—April 1849. Apparently a daily record of the yarn spun possibly giving the names of customers (‘France’s & Fox’s), the type...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to a...

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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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Revue commerciale et industrielle de Mazamet, 1895-1915, [par] Chambre de Commerce de Mazamet

1896-1916

Imprint: Mazamet: Imprimerie Victor Carayol, 1896-1916

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Art de la draperie : principalement pour ce qui regarde les draps fins

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis (1700-1781?); Académie des Sciences

1765

Part of a series published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, entitled Description des arts et métiers.

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Isaac Holden and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Isaac Holden and Sons Limited; Holden, Sir Isaac (1807-1897)

c.1830-1910

Summary of Contents by Box No. I. Papers referring to patents and other business affairs. 1830s-50s. II. Journals and notebooks. 1844-88. III. Newspaper cuttings, parliamentary bills, addr...

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Trade - General

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...

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