M. Johnston and Son (Pomeroy & Dungannon)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.14
Level of description: Fonds
Title: M. Johnston and Son (Pomeroy & Dungannon)
Scope and content: General contents from M. Johnston & Son General Drapers, merchant tailors, outfitters, dressmaking, millinery, boot and shoe warehouse in Pomeroy Tyrone; the family also owned an ironmongers in Dungannon, as evident from the Belfast and Northern Ireland Directory for 1948 and contents in the collection. None of these businesses still exist. Contents: blank receipts, advertisement flyers, various invoices (1948), tags from the ironmongery (undated); discount table book (1953); cash and credit statement book (last filled in 1903); cash flow books; Dungannon business cash book (1958); business correspondence from James Hare Ltd. on stock, service and prices (1941); sales posters; newspaper pages (1931); newspaper cover from 1934; burnt customer informational book; book containing piece of old tailor cloth sample; books in a satchel: The Tailor Cutter: A Cutter's Practical Guide to cutting all kinds of Overcoats, and Guide to Gent's Body cuts of every description (1920s), contains a cardboard cut-out of the royal family and a newspaper fragment (1925); British Liveries: Guide to cutting all kinds of garments, book cover attached upside down; The Art of Trying-On or Fitting; various advertisement posters; Student Drawing Book (1922); women's wear magazines (1895-1910/ one from 1936); London Arts Fashions Booklet (1933); large Corona Clothes book; two volumes of The Art Decorator, containing designs in colours; a tapestries scrapbook; several Persian design prints; a relief decorations book (1951); The Practical Arts of Graining and Marbling by J. Petrie in immaculate condition (1919).