Record

Ref NoMS 466/3/2/4
Finding NumberMS 466/41/Box 8/4a
TitlePhotograph showing George Cadbury and young men from other Quaker manufacturing families
LevelItem
Date1858
DescriptionBlack and white group photograph mounted in a small folded card showing George Cadbury and a group of other young men during his business apprenticeship with the Rowntree family. The Rowntrees were another successful Quaker manufacturing family who ran a grocery business based in York. Annotations on the card state that the photograph was taken in York in 1858. The men shown in the photograph are as follows:
Back row, left to right: George Gillet and George Cadbury
Front row, left to right: Joseph Pelvin, J.S. Rowntree and Lewis Fry.
A further copy of this photograph can be found amongst Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's personal papers.
Extent1
FormatPhotograph
Related MaterialBiographical information about George Cadbury taken from I. A. Williams, 'Cadbury, George (1839-1922)', rev. Robert Fitzgerald, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32232], accessed 20th October 2009.
Physical DescriptionThis photograph is mounted inside a folded piece of card attached to the backing sheet of photograph MS 466/3/2/5 with a paperclip.
Access StatusOpen
CreatorNamePhotographer not specified
LanguageEnglish
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