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Collapse MS 3147 - Boulton and Watt Collection - 1761 - 1977MS 3147 - Boulton and Watt Collection - 1761 - 1977
Expand 1 - Records of Boulton & Watt and Successor Firms - 1766 - 19191 - Records of Boulton & Watt and Successor Firms - 1766 - 1919
Expand 2 - Legal Records - 1766 - 18512 - Legal Records - 1766 - 1851
Expand 3 - Correspondence and Papers - 1769 - 18953 - Correspondence and Papers - 1769 - 1895
Expand 4 - PRODUCTION RECORDS - 1774 - 18954 - PRODUCTION RECORDS - 1774 - 1895
Expand 5 - DRAWINGS - MAIN SERIES - 1775 - 19045 - DRAWINGS - MAIN SERIES - 1775 - 1904
Expand 6 - DRAWINGS - "AVERY" PORTFOLIOS - 1815 - 19036 - DRAWINGS - "AVERY" PORTFOLIOS - 1815 - 1903
Expand 7 - DRAWINGS - 'SCIENCE MUSEUM' PORTFOLIOS - 1797 - 19197 - DRAWINGS - 'SCIENCE MUSEUM' PORTFOLIOS - 1797 - 1919
Expand 8 - Staff and Employment Records - 1784-18888 - Staff and Employment Records - 1784-1888
Expand 9 - Premises Records - 1783-18949 - Premises Records - 1783-1894
Expand 10 - MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED MATERIAL - 1776 - 189610 - MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED MATERIAL - 1776 - 1896
Collapse 11 - Miscellaneous Non-Engineering Business Material - 1761-c.185011 - Miscellaneous Non-Engineering Business Material - 1761-c.1850
1 - Two indentures of employees to James Watt – James Dunshie and John McLean - 03 December 1761
Expand 2 - Miscellaneous private letters of James Watt - 1768 - 17692 - Miscellaneous private letters of James Watt - 1768 - 1769
3 - Letters, in French, from Jean de Luc to James Watt - December 1782 - 17 August 1797
4 - James Watt’s correspondence and papers about dephlogisticated air - 1783 - 1784
Expand 5 - Matthew Boulton, incoming general business letters - December 1783 - February 17845 - Matthew Boulton, incoming general business letters - December 1783 - February 1784
6 - Remarks on silver – standards for silver plate etc. - 1787
7 - Copies of Supplement to the Description of a Pneumatic Apparatus for preparing Factitious Airs; containing a description of a Simplified Apparatus and a Portable Apparatus, James Watt, Birmingham - 1796
8 - Packet of miscellaneous plates, drawings and sketches of James Watt’s pneumatic apparatus - 1796
9 - “The Soho Volunteers letter” – letter from Lieutenant-General Grinfield to the Office Commanding the Corps of Volunteers, Soho, returning thanks for their services - 05 August 1798
10 - Letter from Gregory Watt to William Withering Jr. with Withering’s note on Gregory Watt’s death - 20 August 1804
11 - Press copies – mineralogy of Cornwall, remarks on maps of Scotland, Ireland etc. (27 pages) - 1797 - 1819
12 - Scrapbook of sketches, engravings of buildings, series of portraits of society figures of 1774 etc. - 1774
13 - Small sketches of an engine house, house facades for Soho House [?] - nd.
14 - Annual Reports and lists of subscribers - 1801 - 1805
15 - Blank out-patient and in-patient certificates - 1805 - 1806
16 - Engraving of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of John Ash, M.D., founder of and first physician to the General Hospital - nd.
17 - Annual Reports and lists of subscribers - 1803 - 1806
18 - Printed letters by William Russell, James Keir and an “inhabitant of Birmingham” about the Birmingham Riots - July 1791
19 - Abstract of title to the Dadney estate, Bridstow, Herefordshire, property of Mr. George Mynd, deceased - 1712 - 1796
20 - Printed sheet – “The following Solemn Musical Service was sung at the Funeral of Matthew Boulton, Esq. August 24, 1809” - August 24 1809
21 - Keys to James Pearson’s counting house, Soho Manufactory, and James Watt’s tomb, Handsworth Church - nd.
22 - General Board of Health – Minutes of Instructions for the use of Local Boards of Health, with reference to the Powers and Duties of such Boards and of their Officers - 1850s
23 - Volume of cream coloured ‘blotting paper’ with blue paper cover and printed title of ‘The Drying Book’ pasted on the front - nd. [1820s]
Expand 12 - RECORDS OF THE BOULTON, WATT & CO. LONDON OFFICE - 1818 - 188512 - RECORDS OF THE BOULTON, WATT & CO. LONDON OFFICE - 1818 - 1885
Expand 12 - Records of the Boulton Watt & Co. London Office - 1818-188512 - Records of the Boulton Watt & Co. London Office - 1818-1885
Expand 13 - LONDON OFFICE LETTERS OF ADVICE - 1828 - 183713 - LONDON OFFICE LETTERS OF ADVICE - 1828 - 1837
Expand 14 - London Office Financial Records - 1835-188314 - London Office Financial Records - 1835-1883
Expand 15 - LONDON OFFICE SURVEY OF STEAM POWER IN THE NORTH EAST, 1835 - 183515 - LONDON OFFICE SURVEY OF STEAM POWER IN THE NORTH EAST, 1835 - 1835
16 - London Office Miscellaneous Papers - 1817-1881
Expand 17-20 - Records of James Watt & Co - 1779 - 185117-20 - Records of James Watt & Co - 1779 - 1851
18 - James Watt & Co. Legal Records - 1779-1780
Expand 21-25 - Records of French Walls Iron & Steel Works - 1816 - 186621-25 - Records of French Walls Iron & Steel Works - 1816 - 1866
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26 - M.R.Boulton, J. Watt & Co. Financial and Legal Records - 1804 - 1836
26-30 - Records of M. R. Boulton J. Watt & Co. - 1771-1840
Expand 27 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Correspondence - 1816-184027 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Correspondence - 1816-1840
Expand 28 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of William and Charlotte Matthews - 1771-183028 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of William and Charlotte Matthews - 1771-1830
Expand 29 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of Joseph Taylor and Taylor Campbell & Bowden - 1804-181329 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of Joseph Taylor and Taylor Campbell & Bowden - 1804-1813
Expand 30 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of John Woodward - 1803-181230 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of John Woodward - 1803-1812
31 - Material added by George Tangye - 1857 -1915
32 - Material added by Birmingham Library - 1784 - 1977
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