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ARNOLD FAMILY {DRUGGISTS}


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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Apprenticeship indenture | Apprenticeship records | Documents | Information sources
Family archives | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Highway robbery | Crime

Personal names
Arnold | family | druggists of Barbican | London

Corporate names

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