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P R POLAND (FURRIERS)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-142

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: P R POLAND (FURRIERS)

Date(s): 1871-1890

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units.

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

These items may relate to P R Poland and Son, furriers, who were trading at this date from Queen Victoria Street and Knightrider Street. There are references in the volume to R H Poland and E L Poland, who were partners in the firm, and many pages bear the initials 'RHP'.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Accounts ledger and cash book of an unidentified furrier, possibly P R Poland and Sons.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

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 donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library via the British Archives Council in 1965. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Furriers | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
P.R. Poland and Son | furriers

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe