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Edward Johnston & Company Ltd Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 JOHNSTON

Held at: University College London

Title: Edward Johnston & Company Ltd Records

Date(s): 1884-1942

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Edward Johnston & Company Ltd | coffee traders

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edward Johnston & Company Ltd was a Brazilian coffee exporting house based in Santos. It was founded in 1842 by Edward Johnston who had an expert knowledge of Brazil. It became one of the leading firms in the coffee trade and is now Brazilian owned.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Edward Johnston & Company Ltd, 1884-1942, comprising private letter copy-books from Santos to London, 1892-1904; printed parity tables relating to the coffee trade, 1884-1903; and a volume, One hundred years of coffee (privately printed, London, 1942).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Handlist. See also A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History of Latin America and the Caribbean in the British Isles, ed Peter Walne (Oxford University Press, London, 1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Beverages | Food | Agricultural products
Coffee | Plant products | Agricultural products
Exports/imports | International trade | Trade
Private enterprises | Enterprises
Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Edward Johnston & Company Ltd | coffee traders

Places
Brazil | South America