IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/28
Held at: Wellcome Library
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
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 AND 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.
Physical characteristics:
The bindings and covers of these volumes are in a very damaged state.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
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
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2009