IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/530
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CARPENTER COLLECTION
Date(s): 1695-1947
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These papers were collected for their general or antiquarian interest rather than having a united provenance (that is, being produced by the same institution or business).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Legal, administrative and financial records, some relating to the Carpenter family, including letters; accounts; papers regarding various companies including the London Life Association and the Liberation Building Society; legal papers and court proceedings; deeds for premises at Hampstead, Ealing, Kentish Town and Wood Green; advertisements and handbills; papers regarding the police forces; job applications; sales particulars for the Globe public house in Shoreditch; deeds for the George public house in Finchley; copies of wills; and pamphlets.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Documents arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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:
Records donated in November 1961 by W.H. Carpenter.
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: August to October 2010.