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.