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POWELL WARNER AND CROWTHER {STATIONERS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/WNR

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: POWELL WARNER AND CROWTHER {STATIONERS}

Date(s): 1871-1882

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Powell, Warner and Crowther | stationers
N J Powell and Company | stationers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

N J Powell and Company are listed in the 1873 Post Office London Directory as based at 101 High Street, Whitechapel. They are described as wholesale stationers and makers of account books.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to property owned by Powell, Warner and Crowther, stationers, including lease of 101 High Street, Whitechapel; assignment of the business and all stock and books from Powell to Warner and Crowther; assignment of lease of a warehouse in Commercial Street, Stepney, with schedule of deeds of the warehouse. 1871-1882.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Five documents in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records donated by the Essex Record Office in 1957.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Book industry | Publishing industry
Business partnerships | Business enterprises | Enterprises
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Stationery | Consumer goods
Stationery trade | Trade (practice)
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names
N J Powell and Company | stationers
Powell | Warner and Crowther | stationers

Places