Nicholson, Thomas Tanner, Ltd, Dispensing Chemists

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/28
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Nicholson, Thomas Tanner, Ltd, Dispensing Chemists
Date(s)	: 1893-1960
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 6 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Nicholson | Thomas Tanner, Ltd, Dispensing Chemists, London, NW1
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Library accessions register describes the purchase as the contents of Nicholson's shop at 125 Hampstead Road, London NW 1. Originally taken into the Western Manuscripts Department, the collection was given the reference numbers MSS 5881-5908, but in October 1980 it was transferred to the newly-founded Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. The earliest item, a collection of medical and other receipts in Latin and English (130pp, c 1870) was found to be missing, as was a register of poisons sales (3 March 1960 - 15 October 1963). Remaining are prescription books, ledgers, memorandum books, day books, diaries and registers of poison sales, of Nicholson's and of predecessor firms, dating from 1893 to 1960.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Prescription books, ledgers, cash books, etc, of Nicholson and predecessor firms, 1893-1963.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. Restricted access: i.e. intending user to consult archivist and have their attention drawn to obligation not to identify individuals, if necessary to produce confirmation of bona fides.

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. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These records of Nicholson's, a London dispensary chemist, were bought by the Wellcome Institute Library for ?180 in 1971 from W Branstone, 105 Kyverdale Road, London N 16.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2009