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SMITH, Joseph (fl 1728-1734)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-170

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SMITH, Joseph (fl 1728-1734)

Date(s): 1728-1734

Level of description: Collection

Extent: Two production units.

Name of creator(s): Smith | Joseph | fl 1728-1734 | wholesale grocer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joseph Smith of 'The Sugar Loaf', Cannon Street was a wholesale grocer to customers largely in London and the Home Counties.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Custom ledger of Joseph Smith, wholesale grocer, 1728-1734, with notes tracing the company Joseph Travers and Sons back to Joseph Smith's wholesalers, 1951.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume and one envelope.

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 ledger belonged to Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd in 1957 when a history of the firm was written, but it was purchased by Guildhall Library from auctioneers in 1999 (although not delivered until 2002). 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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Grocers | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Grocery trade | Trade (practice)
Wholesale trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names
Smith | Joseph | fl 1728-1734 | wholesale grocer

Corporate names
Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd | wholesale grocers

Places