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Business records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records generated by a commercial or industrial enterprise.

Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:

Records of the Society of Master Printers of Scotland and its predecessor and associated bodies.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8291/1-78
Scope and Contents Other bodies include: the Edinburgh branch of the Master Printers Association, the Scottish Newspaper Proprietors` Association, and the Edinburgh branch of the Young Master Printers Association.The Edinburgh Printing and Kindred Trades Employers’ Association was formed in April 1917 by the amalgamation of The Edinburgh Master Printers Association, The Edinburgh and Leith Master Lithographers Association, The Edinburgh and District Jobbing Printers and the Association of Master...
Dates: Circa 1920-circa 1970.

Staff employment records., 1944-1971

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13328/1533-1535
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series of business papers contains records that provide evidence of the administrative, production, legal, and business operations of John Murray, publishers. Records include manuscript and publication books, financial papers, staff employment and pension records, and legal papers.

Dates: 1944-1971

Surviving office books of the fishing, fish curing, and shipping enterprise of the Richardson family of Pitfour; with two ledgers of Pitfour estate and some Richardson family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20801-20987
Scope and Contents The firm of John Richardson and Company, of Perth, was already well established by 1760 with a wide business, chiefly in salmon, both locally and throughout Europe. The books consist of letter books and various account books, and show the whole process from the acquisition of the fish to its sale either raw at home or pickled as far afield as Italy and Spain. The salmon business was precarious, and to offset losses Richardson frequently entered into partnership with local merchants, notably...
Dates: 1760-1820.

Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-208
Scope and Contents The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1624-1972.