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PUTNAM AND JAMES, ACTON {BUTCHERS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2551

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PUTNAM AND JAMES, ACTON {BUTCHERS}

Date(s): 1878-1903

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.5 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Putnam and James | butchers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

According to the Kelly's Directory for Acton, an Albert Putnam, butcher, worked at 86A Church Street, Acton, W3.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Putnam and James, butchers, 1878-1903, including three daily order books for the butcher's shop, giving names, addresses, order placed and weight; bills and estimates for work to be done.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Three items plus enclosures; arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Volumes given to the Archive by Dr and Mrs T. Harper Smith of Acton 3 February 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

For an account of the records and of the shop to which they belonged see the article in "Acton Historian".

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bills | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Butchers | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
Putnam and James | butchers

Places