Records and papers relating to business activity in Great Britain, 1681-1907 (inclusive).

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Records and papers relating to business activity in Great Britain, 1681-1907 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17267062

A composite collection of records and papers relating to business activity in Great Britain. Includes estate papers, 1681-1719, of the Marquis of Annandale (also including a map, 1835); microfilm of subscription book of the Bank of England, 1697; statistics of cotton manufacturing in Great Britain, 1771-1789, by Patrick Colquhoun of Glasgow; letters, tracts, and notices relating to the infancy of railways in England, primarily concerning the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, 1796-1833; letters, 1802-1806, from Barnard and Hughes, Manchester commission merchants, to American firms in regard to the importation of Sea Island and other cottons (including also letters to firms in Great Britain); unidentified manuscript, ca. 1803, containing observations on the question of enlarging the trade of British subjects between India and Europe; correspondence, deeds, agreements, and leases of Llangennech Tin Plate Works, Carmarthen, Wales, 1858-1907; and documents and correspondence regarding loans by the Bank of Saxe Meiningen to the Egyptian government, 1862-1866 (with some material running to 1884). Frühling and Göschen, merchants and bankers of London, acted as agents for the bank.

4 v., 4 boxes.

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820

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Author and businessman. From the description of Patrick Colquhoun papers, 1785-1791. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453974 Colquhoun, born in Dumbarton, Scotland, was a writer on economic and social issues, a founder of the Glascow Chamber of Commerce (1782), and a London police magistrate (1792-1818). From the description of Letter to Benjamin Walker, Esq. 21 June 1794. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338704 Patrick C...

Annandale, Marquis of.

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Barnard and Hughes.

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Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Rail-road Company

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Frühling and Göschen.

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Llangennech Tin Plate Works.

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Bank of Saxe Meiningen.

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Phelps Dodge Corporation

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Since its founding as a trading company in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps (1781-1853), the Phelps Dodge & Co. (renamed the Phelps Dodge Corporation after the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. aquired its assets in 1917) provided many of the raw materials that fueled America's early industrial expansion and helped build frontier communities of the American West. In 1881, the Phelps Dodge Corporation invested in copper mining in Arizona and continues to mine those claims today. Fro...

Phelps, James and Company.

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Bank of England.

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