1900-1910 – Museum of Everyday Life

D61_002165 General Ledger

Item Reference: 002165
Category: Stationery
Format: Artefact
Description: Large leather-bound ledger, with ‘General Ledger’ indented and coloured gold along the spine. Manufactured by Eden Fisher & Company Limited, which the inner leaf label identifies as offering services as ‘manufacturing stationers and printers’ and ‘account book makers’. Lists addresses as ‘6,7, & 8 Clements Lane, Lombard Street’ and ’95, 96, 97 Fenchurch Street’. The cover features an indented design in the leather and fore-edge painting in a spiral design, that matches the pastedown and front and back endpapers. 494 pages, 482 of which are the ledger. The pages of the ledger have identical pre-printed, or drawn, tables with pink lines, though no labels. It has not been used. 15″x11″x2.5″ (height, width, depth)
Date: c. 1900
Further Information: Lombard Street is well known as a hub for banking and associated business, going back to the medieval period.
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D61_002164 Short Bills Ledger

Item Reference: 002164
Category: Stationery
Format: Artefact
Description: Rectangular short bills ledger. Manufactured by Eden Fisher & Company, which the inner leaf label lists identifies as offering services as ‘bankers’ stationers’, ‘account book manufacturers’, and ‘engravers and printers’. Lists addresses as ‘6, 7, & 8 Clements Lane, Lombard Street’ and ’96-97 Fenchurch Street’. Brown leather binding and corner covers, red textured cover. The ledger features a fore-edge painting in spiral design, that matches the pastedown and endpapers. The pages of the ledger have identical pre-printed, or drawn, tables with pink lines, though no labels. It has not been used. 8.5″x12″x2″ (height, width, depth).
Date: c. 1900
Further Information: Lombard Street is well known as a hub for banking and associated business, going back to the medieval period.
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D61_002164_1 — front of short bills ledger

D87_006695 Polygraph Drawing Stencil

Item Reference: 006695
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Polygraph drawing and designing stencil, made from metal, in original box. Made in Germany.
Date: c. 1900
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D22_006598 Needles in Envelope

Item Reference: 006598
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Seven needles of varying thickness and brands, and various uses, enclosed within a small paper envelope that at one point held 25 needles. The branded needles are John James and Sons and Milward and Sons, both based in Redditch. The envelope appears to have been repurposed as it says ’25 needles’ in blue pen, the original use for the envelope may have been to do with money or work.
Date: c. Early 1920s
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D22_001815 Wooden Plate Holder

Item Reference: 001815
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Unbranded wooden plate holder, with book opening to load the plates and two draw slides to expose plates of different sizes, with the side marked ‘1’ having an attachable reducing frame.
Date: c. 1900
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D22_001806 Kodak Film Tank in Wooden Box

Item Reference: 001806
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Kodak film tank in a wooden dark box. The tank is tin and cylindrical with a lid and has an apron and reel inside. The box is varnished wood, painted matte black inside with a wooden spool attached and one tin take-up spool, two tin turning handles, and one tin film puller to be used in the development process.
Date: 1907-1913
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Links: Explanation of use and scan of contemporary information leaflet