NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 O/460
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Date(s)	: 1880-1889
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Jennings | W E | fl 1880 | businessman Erdmann and Schanz | boot and shoe importers, Clapham Junction

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

According to the Post Office London Directory, 1889, Erdmann and Schanz were "boot and shoe importers and photo publishers".

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters from American correspondents relating to business with Britain, comprising: letter from W. E. Jennings to Gillet and Company of Elmira, New York, on notepaper of the Castle and Falcon Hotel, London E.C., about the trade in Great Britain in auger bits and about other woods in the tool and hardware trade, 1880 and letter from W. E. Jennings to Gillet and Company from the same London hotel, about the writer's efforts to collect a debt for Gillet and Company in Hamburg, and about the trade in Europe for American tools, 1880. Also letter from Erdmann and Schanz, of Clapham Junction, to Fitch and Billings, of Elmira, New York, acknowledging their request and sending photographs (as an accompanying statement, missing) for them to choose from, 1889.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Three documents.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright 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:

These documents were sent as a gift by the Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, New York. It was pointed out that their provenance was properly a United States one, not a London one, but an offer to return them was declined.

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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:
July to October 2009