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- 1782-1941 (Creation)
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14 production units.
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Biographical history
Joseph Dickenson Croskey, citizen and painter-stainer, was a textile merchant and furrier, with premises successively at 19 Friday Street and 2 Mansion House Street. JD Croskey became senior partner of Brunswick and Company on the death of Christopher Brunswick. The partners in Croskey, Pook and Brunswick were JD Croskey, John Pook and Charles Brunswick.
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GB 0074 CLC/439 1782-1941 Collection 14 production units. Croskey , Joseph Dickenson , fl 1782 , textile merchant
Joseph Dickenson Croskey, citizen and painter-stainer, was a textile merchant and furrier, with premises successively at 19 Friday Street and 2 Mansion House Street. JD Croskey became senior partner of Brunswick and Company on the death of Christopher Brunswick. The partners in Croskey, Pook and Brunswick were JD Croskey, John Pook and Charles Brunswick.
The surviving business and private archives were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1965 through the agency of the Business Archives Council, and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
Records of Joseph Croskey, textile merchant, consisting mostly of financial accounts and correspondence, some relating to the business of Brunswick and Company, furriers.
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
English
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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.
Records prepared May to September 2011. Documents Business records Textile industry personnel Archives Personal archives People People by occupation Personnel Mercantile personnel Furriers Information sources Personal papers Primary documents Brunswick and Co , furriers City of London London England UK Western Europe Europe
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The surviving business and private archives were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1965 through the agency of the Business Archives Council, and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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Records of Joseph Croskey, textile merchant, consisting mostly of financial accounts and correspondence, some relating to the business of Brunswick and Company, furriers.
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Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
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Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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English
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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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.
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- English