These records comprise compilations of London signs, 1649-1767, of advertisements by goldsmiths, 1666-1731, and list of city stage-coach and carrier services, 1749.

Brochure advertising cart lamps which accord with bye-laws, 1897-1898.

Records of Stephen Green Limited, patent medicine manufacturer, 1780-1930. The records relate to proprietorship of the recipe for "Doctor Johnson's Golden Ointment" including legal documents and legal case papers; and records relating to the manufacture and sale of the ointment including financial accounts, order books, correspondence, sales summaries, testimonials, advertising, legislation involving patent medicines and history of the ointment. Also various family and estate records.

Records of Whiffen and Son Ltd, manufacturing chemists, 1752-1972, including history of the company; articles of partnership and other contracts and agreements; legal documents relating to property; correspondence; circulars; financial accounts; papers relating to shares and shareholders; stock records; newspaper cuttings; photographs; staff wages books and pensions papers; records relating to staff associations and sports clubs including minute books; reports on chemical manufacture, laboratory notebooks and chemical analyses; papers relating to sales; papers relating to imports and foreign suppliers; advertisements; registers of product labels; samples of packaging; rules, regulations and legislation regarding factories and safety measures; papers regarding the Second World War including war damage to factories and papers relating to staff on active duty.

Also records of Saint Amand Manufacturing Company Limited including ledgers, letter books and journals.

Records of Smith Kendon Limited, 1826-1987. The collection mainly comprises the papers of Donald Smith and his capacity as Managing Director and Chairman of Smith Kendon Limited, including papers relating to the formation of the business such as articles of partnership and certificates of registration; deeds and other legal documents relating to property owned by the company; insurance policies; inventories; correspondence; minutes of meetings; Donald Smith's business diaries; sales figures; financial accounts; papers relating to stock and stock control; papers relating to sales; papers relating to products including recipe books; advertising; reports; staff records and papers relating to the Second World War.

Advertisement label, pasted on cloth, for Nathaniel Gladman, trunkmaker, 17--.

Papers of individual members of staff at Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers of chairman E W Giffard; papers of managing director H L Grimston; papers of Company solicitor R Whitmarsh Gray, including legal papers and press cuttings; papers of head brewer J B Binnie, including photographs, posters, advertisements, invitations, cards and programmes; and papers of head brewer Charles Collard, including brewing books.

Public Relations records for Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including copies of "The Development and Growth of Courage's Brewery, 1787-1932" by GN Hardinge; and printing blocks showing staff, public houses and advertisements.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including precis of news reports about the brewing industry; examples of advertising including a gramophone record; papers relating to public houses; and publicity department correspondence and subject files relating to various events, company activities and aspects of the brewing industry.

Records of Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, relating to advertising, memorabilia and personal records, including substantial albums and guard books with Whitbread and Company advertising and labelling from 1935 through to 1980, newscuttings book of adverts commissioned (1921-1996), photographs of premises (1930-1979) and correspondence relating to advertising campaigns. Also included are published histories of the Company from both the nineteenth and twentieth century. This collection also includes the Whitbread Archivist's research files on public houses in the London area, subsidary companies and individuals associated with Whitbread and Company.

Records of Whitbread International Limited, a subsidiary company of Whibread and Company Limited, brewers. Records include ledgers detailing Whitbread exports and ship stocks from the 1920s through to the 1970s along with advertising from the launch of various Whitbread products abroad most notably that of Mackeson Stout and Whitbread Premium Draught Beer.

Records of Crosse and Blackwell Limited, food manufacturers, 1830-2003. The records include business agreements; correspondence; published histories; financial records; papers relating to shareholders; papers relating to production including agreements, ledgers, notebooks, reports, and labels; price lists; papers relating to staff organisations and staff photographs; property records including inventories, leases and photographs; papers relating to advertising including newscuttings, publications, adverts, correspondence and photographs.

Also papers of subsidiary companies including British Vinegars Ltd, Elizabeth Lazenby Ltd, James Kellier and Sons and Allards Wharf Ltd.

Advertisement of John Besford, supplier of patterns and drawings for needlework and netting silk, dated to the 19th century.

Records of Longman and Broderip, organ and piano makers, consisting of an advertisement on the inside front cover of an edition of "Virgil's Works", 1787.

Sales particulars, 1834-1947, for the following properties:

• 35 and 36 Foley Street, Regent Street, Saint Marylebone
• 5-storey building, Buckingham Street, Strand, Westminster; with plan and elevation.
• 16 and 17 Kings Parade, Kings Road, Chelsea.
• Estate in Frederick Street, Hampstead Road, Saint Pancras, including a brewery; with plan.
• Suite of chambers, Albany, Piccadilly, Westminster.
• 133 Barnsbury Road, Islington; house and shop.
• 6 Holford Place, Pentonville, Finsbury.
• 2 Pont Street, Belgravia, Westminster.
• 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 Malden Crescent, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras and adjacent land; with plan.
• The Queen's Arms, Weston Street, Southwark, with adjoining building land. Land and vaults at Maze Street and Saint Thomas Street, Southwark; with plan.
• 6 Euston Square, Saint Pancras with stabling in Seymour Row.
• 110 and 116 High Street, Poplar. Houses and shops; with plan.
• Building estate, Clifton Road, New Cross, Deptford; with plan.
• 166, 168 and 170 Park Road, Crouch End.
• Building land at Chapel Road, Church Road, Mitcham.
• 5, 7, 10, 12 and 14 Linscott Road, Lower Clapton, Hackney.
• 126 and 127 High Street, Whitechapel, Stepney. Bank, office and warehouse premises.
• Pedrail Transport Works on the corner of Wyfold Rd, and Kingwood Road, Fulham.
• 40-46 and 60-72 (even) Bowland Road, Clapham, formerly Crescent Road, Clapham, Wandsworth.
• 26-40 (even) Balham New Road, Balham, Wandsworth.
• 311-321 (odd) York Road, 254-260 (even) York Road, Lambeth, 61-63 (odd) Battersea Park Rd, Battersea.
• 'Collingtree' 68 Norbury Crescent, Norbury.
• 93 Finchley Road, Hampstead.
• 31 and 35-53 (odd) Pendle Road, 35-41 (odd) Penrith Road, 30 and 32 Parklands Road, Streatham, Wandsworth.
• Property known as 'Clarence Cinema', Hackney in Mare Street at the junction of Clarence Road and Lower Clapton Road, Hackney; with plan.
• 'Neilgherry' 77 Stanhope Avenue, Finchley.
• 8 Balham Hill, Balham, Wandsworth; with plan.
• 11 Motcomb Street, Belgrave Sq., Westminster; corner shop premises.
• Details of forthcoming auction sales.
• Royal Parcel Mail Yard, 11-29 Seward Street, Goswell Road, Finsbury; stabling and cottages; with plan.
• 129, 131 and 133 Mare Street, Hackney; with plan.
• Building site at 11-29 (odd) Seward Street, Goswell Road, Finsbury; with plan.
• 21 Culmore Road, 123 and 125 Asylum Rd 18, 20 and 22 Marmont Road, Peckham, Camberwell.
• 10 St James Street, Bedford Row, Westminster; with plan and photograph
• 1 Fleming Road, Walworth, Southwark.
• Site and premises and 10 houses 65, 66, 67 and 68 George Street, and 80, 82, 86, 88, 90 and 92 Euston Street, at Euston, Saint Pancras; with plan.
• 41 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea.
• 'Clarence House' Mare Street, Hackney.
• 'Villa Bellevue' 23 Umfreville Road, Green Lanes, Harringey.
• 127 Fortess Road, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras; shop premises.
• 'The Poplars' 159 Upper Brockley Road, Brockley, Lewisham; houses and garages; with plan.
• 1 and 3 Bannockburn Road, Plumstead 139 Maxey Road, Plumstead, 13 and 15 Abbey Grove, Abbey Wood.