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River Gambia Trading Company Ltd, merchants of London


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0097 RIVER GAMBIA

Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science

Title: River Gambia Trading Company Ltd, merchants of London

Date(s): 1860-1920

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 12 shelves

Name of creator(s): River Gambia Trading Company Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No further information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the River Gambia Trading Company Ltd, 1860-1920, including accounts, ledgers, stock books, invoice books, cash books, wages books, expenses books, receipt books and letter books. Also includes: papers regarding the Bathurst Trading Company of Mincing Lane, London; papers regarding the will of Richard Lloyd (died 1853) of Bathurst, Gambia and Harriet Fanny, his wife (died 1855).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Unsorted

Conditions governing access:

Mainly closed; some items open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Finding aids:

Draft catalogue available from Archives staff.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.

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: Apr 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
African history | National history
Economic history | Economics
Business x Enterprises
Trade (practice)

Personal names
Lloyd | Harriet Fanny | d 1855 | wife of Richard Lloyd of Bathurst, Gambia
Lloyd | Richard | d 1853 | of Bathurst, Gambia

Corporate names
Bathurst Trading Company
River Gambia Trading Company Ltd

Places
Gambia | West Africa | Africa