ARNOLD FAMILY {DRUGGISTS}

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 F/ARN
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ARNOLD FAMILY {DRUGGISTS}
Date(s)	: 1800-1845
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres (8 documents).
Name of creator(s)	: Arnold | family | druggists of Barbican, London

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Messrs J. and J. Arnold were druggists [dispensers of medicinal drugs] based at No. 59, Barbican, London.

A footpad was a highwayman who robbed on foot.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection of nineteenth-century papers relating to the Arnold family comprises bills for schooling, apprenticeship indentures, and printed material including notice of attack on Mr Arnold by a footpad, with details of reward, and religious circulars.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Bills (F/ARN/001-002); apprenticeship indentures (F/ARN/003-004), and printed material (F/ARN/005-008).

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:

Records deposited in 1955.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

"A Barbican Druggist of the early 1800s" by Laurence Dopson, published in The Chemist and Druggist, 26 January 1957, is based on this collection.

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:
Records prepared May to September 2011.