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R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5661-5673

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

Date(s): 1880-1944

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 13 volumes

Name of creator(s): R Woollatt and J Boyd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The pharmacy, at 20 Fore Street, Taunton, Somerset was run by R Woollatt until 1906, and thereafter by J Boyd.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Prescription books, account books, ledgers, and note book of chemists R Woollatt and J Boyd, 1880-1944.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Pharmaceutical chemists | Chemists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Pharmacists | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Prescription drugs | Drugs | Pharmacology
Pharmaceutical preparations

Personal names

Corporate names

Places