IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/066
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: DAVISON, NEWMAN AND CO
Date(s): 1753-1897
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 48 production units.
Name of creator(s): Davison, Newman and Co | grocers and importers of West-Indian produce
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The firm of Davison, Newman and Company, grocers and importers of West-Indian produce, was founded in 1650. It was sitauted "at the sign of the three sugar loaves and crown", 14 Creechurch Lane, Leadenhall Street, London EC3. It was bought up by the West-Indian Produce Association Limited, on 1 January 1911. The registered trade name of the present firm retains the name of the original business.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Davison, Newman and Company, grocers and importers of West-Indian produce, comprising mostly accounts, correspondence, legal papers and papers relating to land in Jamaica.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
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 records were deposited by the Company and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1954. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
A history of the Company by Owen Rutter, A brief history of the firm of Messrs Davison, Newman and Company: now incorporated with the West Indian Produce Association Limited, 1938, is available in the Printed Books Section of the Guildhall Library.
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: November 2010 to January 2011.