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Collection Level Description: Record books of Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited (microfilm)

Reference: GB 0162 Micr.Afr.584
Title: Record books of Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited (microfilm)
Dates of Creation: 1908-1910
Extent: 1 reel
Name of Creator: Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited

Language of Material: eng


Administrative/Biographical History

Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited, shipping agents.

Scope and Content

Record books of Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited relating to agencies in Zanzibar and Mombasa (the books were kept in Zanzibar). Includes freight passage, launch and hire rates, particulars of cargo, summaries of contracts, notes on extraction of clove oil and some copy letters. Microfilm.

Administrative Information

Access Conditions

Bodleian reader's ticket required.

Reproduction Restrictions

No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.

Further Information

Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Listed as no. 1175 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Access Points

Smith, Mackenzie & Company Limited | shipping agents

Freight forwarders

Shipping

Zanzibar (Tanzania)

Mombasa (Kenya)

Transformation from XML to HTML by Lawrence Mielniczuk
30 January 2012
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