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W. BARNETT (merchants)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/209

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: W. BARNETT (merchants)

Date(s): [1850]-1878

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.04 linear metres

Name of creator(s): W Barnett and Co | merchants, shipping and general agents

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

W Barnett and Company are described in their adverts as "Merchants, Colonial, Shipping and General Agents".

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of W Barnett and Company, including letter from Messrs Dale and Stretton, Gray's Inn Square, inviting applications for debenture stock of the London Bridge Land Company, Ltd. secured on the freehold estate of the Company at London Bridge, 1865; sales particulars of 9 Fleet Street with rear premises abutting on Hare Court, Temple, 1878; poster and handbill issued by W. Barnett and Company, advertising passages to Australia and other destinations, c 1850-1860.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

O/0209/1-4.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1966. AC/66/003.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Advertisements | Advertising | Communication process
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Merchant shipping | Maritime transport | Transport
Posters | Visual materials
Share dealing | Financial markets | Investment | Finance
Shipping agents | Commercial agents | Business people | People by occupation | People
Shipping
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names
London Bridge Land Company | Ltd
W Barnett and Co | merchants | shipping and general agents

Places