IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-028
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BLOSSOM, Thomas (fl 1808-1826)
Date(s): 1808-1826
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Blossom | Thomas | fl 1808-1826 | coachbuilder
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Blossom was a coachbuilder who later worked in the Windward Islands for the London Missionary Society first as a carpenter, then from 1823 attempting to establish the manufacture of cotton.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Account book of Thomas Blossom, coachbuilder, including costs and a detailed list of each stage of his work on repairing and building coaches and carriages of (named) gentry, 1809-14; summary entries of coach work, 1808-9; and Blossom's note of cargoes received at Tahiti and Eimeo (Windward Islands, French Polynesia) from the London Missionary Society, 1821-6.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
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 Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.