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Business records.

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

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the Fenwick Weavers' Society.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4702/1-3
Scope and Contents

Records of the Fenwick Weavers' Society, founded in March, 1761 to establish 'proper regulations..amongst us for the better ordering and Government of our said Trade'; the Society had a continuous existence until its dissolution in June, 1873.

Dates: 1761-1873.

Papers of the Saltire Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9393/1-1174
Scope and Contents

Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

Dates: 1936-1989, undated.

Papers of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3435
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. two minute books, 1923-1949

2. sederunt book, 1932-1949

3. lists, 1924-1949, of officer bearers.

Dates: 1923-1950.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12173
Scope and Contents

Includes titles, minutes, rentals, maps and architectural drawings. Also includes Cromartie Estate correspondence, 1887-1894.

Dates: 1823-1894 and undated.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts

Dates: 1969-1985.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11288/1-29
Scope and Contents

Includes publicity material and photographs of productions.

Dates: 1980-1993.

Papers of W and R Beveridge, Weavers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5596
Dates: 1869-1895 and undated.

Personal correspondence and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly concerning the Scout movement and other public activities; with papers relating to military service and estate papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6688/1-47
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence and papers, 1929-68, with some estate papers, 1845-1967, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, MC KBE KT (1875-1977), 2nd Baron Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth (1945-1959), and Governor of Tasmania (1959-1963). The correspondence is concerned mainly with Rowallan's activities in the Scout movement, but includes also some papers relating to his military service in both World Wars, and to his farming activities in Ayrshire. For further biographical details...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1845-1968, undated.

Records, 1833-1937, of Edinburgh cabinetmakers and chairmakers trade unions.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5436
Scope and Contents

With records, 1918-1937, of the Edinburgh United Furniture Trades’ Committee.

Dates: 1833-1937.

Records, kept by James Maclehose, of the activities of the Scottish Alliance of Employers in the Printing and Kindred Trades.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8166/[Printing] 1-623–[Binding] 1-19
Scope and Contents

Two sequences of notebooks, 'Printing' and 'Binding', containing a record compiled by Dr James MacLehose, sometime Trustee of the National Library of Scotland, of the activities of the Scottish Alliance of Employers in the Printing and Kindred Trades.

Each volume includes typescript letters, many as carbon copies, press cuttings and pamphlets all pasted in.

Dates: 1893-1943.

Records of Gall and Inglis, printers and publishers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14407
Content Description

Ledger containing publication details including print runs, size and number of pages, covering 1840s to 1890s. Also a notebook labelled 'record of publications' containing publication information compiled in 1950 from old records. Also a sheet of paper providing information about dates in the history of the business.

Dates: 1840-1974.

Records of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9416/1-64
Scope and Contents

Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.

Dates: 1786-1981

Records of Kirkliston Reading Room.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5043/1-9
Scope and Contents

The Kirkliston Reading Room was opened for the inhabitants of Kirkliston and district in 1904.

Dates: 1874-1939.

Records of Oliver and Boyd, publishers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14394
Content Description

Publication agreements, 1896-1979.

Dates: 1896-1979