IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/213
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: THOMAS, James and POWELL, Thomas
Date(s): 1848-1890
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 40 production units.
Name of creator(s): Thomas, James and Thomas Powell | leather and hide factors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The material was collected by the firm of Thomas, James and Thomas Powell, leather and hide factors, of 36 Lime Street and London Bridge.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records collected by James Thomas and Thomas Powell, leather and hide factors, comprising leather brokers' trade circulars, tables of prices and sales reports.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1962 by the Museum of Leathercraft and catalogued shortly afterwards by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
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: January to May 2011.