Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor Records
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0103 MS ADD 8 |
Held at | : University College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll › |
Full title | : Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor Records |
Date(s) | : 1854-1888 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 volumes and 1 file |
Name of creator(s) | : Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor | Spitalfields |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The soup kitchen first operated in 1853 and was founded to relieve Jewish poor in Spitalfields, London, taking on premises and providing rations to local recipients.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute books of meetings of donors to the Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor, Spitalfields, London, 1854-1872, with minutes of Finance Committee meetings, 1858-1871; correspondence and papers, 1857-1888, including printed accounts, 1857-1858, 1869-1872, 1883-1884, letters, 1871, 1887, and printed notices of meetings, 1888.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Finding aids:
Catalogued in Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), p 113.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Deposited with the Mocatta Library at University College London by F W Samuel in 1932.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Mocatta Library (subsequently the Jewish Studies Library) of University College London.
Allied Materials
Related material:
London Metropolitan Archives hold records, 1872-1980, including minutes, financial and distribution records, of Food for the Jewish Poor, Spitalfields (Ref: Acc 2942).
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley 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:
May 2001
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