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William Norrie Papers

  • MS 288
  • Collection
  • 1949-1952
Material pertaining to the employment of William Norrie in the Barnagore Jute Mill Company in India between 1949 and 1952, where he was employed as a Mill Mechanic. Items relating to Mr Norrie's employment in India

Mr William Norrie

William Allan Collection

  • MS 292
  • Collection
  • 1899-1930
Copies of papers and photographs relating to Mr William Allan during his time in India working for Andrew Yule & Co. and then as mill manager in the Dalhousie and Northbrook mills.

Mr William Allan

W. S. Howe collection

  • MS 287
  • Collection
  • 1993
Photographs showing images of people in various interior settings in a British Mill Manager's residence in India.

Mr W. S. Howe

The Dundee Oral History Project

  • MS 379
  • Item
  • 2010 -
Recordings covering lives from the 1930's onwards, paperwork, biographies and some photographs of participants. Themes covered by the Project so far include the jute and textile industry (Dundee and India), the arts, academia, comics, journalism, publishing, disabilities, medicine, politics, armed services, retail, photography, sport and leisure, music and fashion. Themes also include childhood, family, education and work.

University of Dundee Archive Services

Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

  • MS 66
  • Collection
  • 1791-2003
The collection has been arranged into the following sub-fonds:
MS 66/I Thomas Bell & Sons (of Dundee) Ltd 1812-1942
MS 66/II Cox Brothers Ltd c 1791-2002
MS 66/III Gilroy Sons & Co Ltd 1849-1933
MS 66/IV J & A D Grimond Ltd 1863-1953
MS 66/V John N Kyd & Co Ltd 1850-1961
MS 66/VI Harry Walker & Sons Ltd 1847-c 1960
MS 66/VII F S Stewart Sandeman & Sons Ltd 1903-1936
MS 66/VIII John Lowson Jnr & Co Ltd 1874-1955
MS 66/IX Boase Spinning Co Ltd 1862-1987
MS 66/X Sidlaw Industries Ltd 1887-2003
MS 66/XI Miscellaneous associated, affiliated and subsidiary companies of Jute Industries Ltd
MS 66/XII Miscellaneous and Unidentified Papers 1884-c.1950

Sidlaw Industries Ltd

Photographs of Dundee in the 1970s

  • MS 313
  • Collection
  • c 1975
Six pieces of card with photographs of Dens Works, Dens Road, Claverhouse, East Port and other areas of Dundee. It is possible that these photographs were taken by a student or a member of staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. Most of the photographs relate to areas which had previously had some connection with the textile industry, suggesting they may have been taken as part of a project relating to the textile industry in Dundee

Photographs of Dundee

  • MS 346
  • Collection
  • c 1954
Photographs of Dundee and the great crash; Photographs of Dens works; Photographs of Dundee

David Clayre

Norman Soutar photographs

  • MS 253
  • Collection
  • c 1920-c 1950
Photographs relating to jute industry in India.

Norman Souter

Made-Up Textiles Association Limited

  • MS 85
  • Collection
  • 1913-1976
Minutes 1918-1976; cash books 1920-1969; journal 1913-1927; correspondence 1959-1966; photographs c.1969-1970.

Made-Up Textiles Association Limited

John Noble Collection

  • MS 294
  • Collection
  • 1950-1967
Publications relating to Jardine Henderson Limited and the operating and running of the Jute Mills, donated by Mr John Noble, , a salesman with Jardine Henderson (formerly Skinner), involved with the buying and selling of Jute.

Mr John Noble

John Morris Collection

  • MS 293
  • Collection
  • 1951-1962
Employment agreements relating to the employment of Mr John Morris with Thomas Duff & Co. in their mills in India between 1951 -1962

Mr John Morris

James Scott & Sons

  • MS 389
  • Collection
  • c1860s-c 1971
Business records including articles of assiociation, minutes of meetings, financial records and administrative papers concerning property and employees. Also bundles of miscellaneous papers including news cuttings, some legal and business papers and miscellaneous range of small artefacts, including rubber stamps.

James Scott & Sons

David Paterson Collection

  • MS 276
  • Collection
  • 1911-2013
Copies of correspondence, newspaper cuttings, film and photographs relating to Kinniston Jute Mill and to David Paterson Jnr and Snr's time in India.

David Paterson

Craiks Limited, Linen and Jute Merchants and Manufacturers, Forfar

  • MS 74
  • Collection
  • 1877-1981
Minutes 1908-1965; letter books 1909-1925; shareholding records 1908-1947; financial records 1914-1944; stock books 1877-1946; order books 1920-1944; production and technical records 1911-1962; weaving book 1951-1967; miscellaneous loose papers 1870-1975; company records from Companies Registration Office on microfiche 1908-1981.

Craiks Limited

Buist Spinning Co. Ltd. Dundee

  • MS 71
  • Collection
  • 1874-1979
Minutes 1900-1978; register of members, transfers, shares and annual summaries 1900-1978; financial papers 1874-1979; wages records 1957-1968; stock books, jute purchases and sales 1926-1979; news cuttings, mainly from the Kidderminster Shuttle, relating to the British jute industry 1900-1932.

Buist Spinning Co. Ltd

Bengal Project Collection

  • MS 298
  • Collection
  • 1993
Interviews recorded of members of the public who gave accounts of their experiences of living and working in India prior to 1960, in addition to photographs and publications donated to the project relating to life in India.

Professor Swinfen, History Department of the University of Dundee

Baxter Brothers & Co Ltd, linen and jute spinners and manufacturers, Dundee

  • MS 11
  • Collection
  • 1795-1992
Minute books 1873 1966, letter books 1898-1929, register of members 1930 1948, ledgers 1807 1815, 1853 1973, journals 1853 1955, balance books 1832 1949, miscellaneous financial records 1806 1974, wages books 1841 1959, production books 1841 1927, contract and order books 1898 1952, quotations and estimates 1850 1971, inventories and valuations 1853 1975, miscellaneous technical records 1833 c.1930, mill manager's history of flax spinning c.1866, representatives' reports 1926 1963, miscellaneous papers including genealogical notes on Baxter family 1795 1986, plans c.1820 1963 and technical drawings 1850 1957 [368], photographs 1833 1980 [145].

Baxter Brothers & Co Ltd

Alexander R. Brown Collection

  • MS 290
  • Collection
  • 1946-1963
Material pertaining to the employment of Alexander Brown, a Mill clerk for Andrew Yule and Co., who lived in Calcutta with his wife between 1946 and 1963.

Mr Alexander Brown

A. S. Cumming

  • MS 279
  • Collection
  • 1879-1956
A. S. Cumming's notebooks. 1935-1939; Textile Products. c 1935; Books. 1879-1956; Photographs. c 1953

A. S. Cumming