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ROBERT HOWDEN LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/190

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ROBERT HOWDEN LIMITED

Date(s): 1862-1946

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 33 production units.

Name of creator(s): Robert Howden Ltd | pharmacist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Robert Howden Limited, pharmacist, traded at 78 Gracechurch Street until 1898, then at 28 Gracechurch Street (1898-1918), and 11 Fenchurch Street (1918-67), and from 1967 as Robert Howden (Southend) Limited at 17-19 Southchurch Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Robert Howden Limited, pharmacist, comprising prescription books and a ledger.

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 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 company's surviving archives were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1988 and 1992 and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Drug prescriptions | Pharmacology
Pharmacists | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Pharmacy x Pharmacology
Personnel

Personal names

Corporate names
Robert Howden Ltd | pharmacist

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe