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University of the Arts London: London College of Fashion

Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' General Friendly Society


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 2159 TOAGFP

Held at: University of the Arts London: London College of Fashion

Title: Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' General Friendly Society

Date(s): 1893-1993

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 files

Name of creator(s): Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' Mutual Association
Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' General Friendly Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' Mutual Association was established in 1893 for the relief of poverty and distress of employees working in a department of a tailoring or outfitting establishment, qualified teachers of the trade and their dependants. In 1972 the Association became known as the General Friendly Society. The Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' Mutual Association Benevolent Fund was established in 1970 by trust deed. The Society was dissolved in 1978, and the benevolent fund was merged in 1993 with the Tailors' Benevolent Institute, a trust fund to 'relieve either generally or individually persons who are or have been journeyman tailors or tailoresses'.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' Mutual Association, later Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' General Friendly Society, 1893-1993, comprising minutes of the Committee and general meetings, 1973-1977, 1989-1993; balance sheets, 1894-1978; rules of the Association, 1893-[1964]; publicity leaflets, 1950s-1970s; benevolent fund accounts, 1981-1992; accounts and papers relating to the dissolution of the Society, 1977-1978; correspondence relating to the future and dissolution of the Society, 1976-1978; correspondence relating to the merger of the Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' Mutual Association Benevolent Fund with the Tailors' Benevolent Institute, 1993.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the collection is by appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying is permitted although photographs may be taken at the discretion of the Head of Learning Resources.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

The records are uncatalogued.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the London College of Fashion by C H R Garner, Secretary of the Master Tailors' Benevolent Association.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: July 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Associations | Organizations
Clothing | Textiles
Insurance | Finance
Labour movements | Labour relations
Retail | Markets | Trade
Tailors | Occupations

Personal names

Corporate names
Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' General Friendly Society
Tailors' and Outfitters' Assistants' Mutual Association
Tailors' Benevolent Institute

Places