IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 F/ARN
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ARNOLD FAMILY {DRUGGISTS}
Date(s): 1800-1845
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres (8 documents).
Name of creator(s): Arnold | family | druggists of Barbican, London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Messrs J. and J. Arnold were druggists [dispensers of medicinal drugs] based at No. 59, Barbican, London.
A footpad was a highwayman who robbed on foot.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This collection of nineteenth-century papers relating to the Arnold family comprises bills for schooling, apprenticeship indentures, and printed material including notice of attack on Mr Arnold by a footpad, with details of reward, and religious circulars.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Bills (F/ARN/001-002); apprenticeship indentures (F/ARN/003-004), and printed material (F/ARN/005-008).
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
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:
Records deposited in 1955.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
"A Barbican Druggist of the early 1800s" by Laurence Dopson, published in The Chemist and Druggist, 26 January 1957, is based on this collection.
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: Records prepared May to September 2011.