M. Johnston and Son (Pomeroy & Dungannon)
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IND.JOHN
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Fonds
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Title
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M. Johnston and Son (Pomeroy & Dungannon)
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Scope and content
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M. Johnston & Son was a General Drapers, merchant tailors, outfitters, dressmaking, millinery, boot and shoe warehouse in Pomeroy, Tyrone. The family also owned an ironmongery in Dungannon.
Detailed contents: blank receipts, advertisement flyers, various invoices (1948), ironmongery tags (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; miscellaneous newspaper clippings; book containing a cloth sample; various books and assorted items held in satchel including, “The Tailor Cutter: A Cutter's Practical Guide to Cutting all Kinds of Overcoats”, “Guide to Gent's Body: Cuts of Every Description”, “British Liveries: Guide to Cutting all Kinds of Garments”, “The Practical Arts of Graining and Marbling”, “The Art of Trying-On or Fitting”, a cardboard cut-out of the Royal Family (1925); 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 and a relief decorations book (1951).
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