IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-014
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HARRISONS AND CROSFIELD: BRANCH RECORDS (JAPAN)
Date(s): 1917
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 production units.
Name of creator(s): Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd | traders in tea, coffee, rubber, timber, chemicals, and other agricultural products
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A branch was opened in Kobe in 1917 as a buying agency for Japanese goods for Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary companies. In 1923 Harrisons and Crosfield acquired Davis and Company. Davis and Company's former partners, W. Lane and W Jarmain ran the branch's "D" department separately. A new company, Harrisons, Davis and Co was formed in 1926. See also the records of Jarmain, Davis and Company, CLC/B/112-090; Ms 37900-1.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Japanese branch of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, comprising correspondence with the head office.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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:
The records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.