Catalogue description McHATTIE & CO., LTD.

The records deposited at the Institute comprise accounts, administrative, commercial and technical material and a good cross section of post 1870 publicity. The accounts include a run of wages books, 1912-1963 [TR MCH/AC5], broken only by a gap for 1940-1944, and financial statements [TR MCH/AC7] for the 1880's and for the partnership of A.W. Armstrong, W.C. Armstrong and W. Ferguson, 1911-1942. The administrative records contain a comprehensive general reference album, especially concerned with government matters, for 1921-1942 [TR MCH/AD2/1] and an inventory and valuation of the firm's implement stock on the decease of John McHattie in 1886 [TR MCH/AD5/1]. There is also a fine run of implement sales registers for 1875-1941, referring to a wide variety of manufacturers and equipment [TR MCH/AD7/1-5]. The technical records are mainly reference compilations of preserved flora [TR MCH/ET3/1-7] together with a reference album on farm seeds [TR MCH/ET3/8]. The publications, as previously mentioned, are quite comprehensive, including eleven bound albums [TR MCH/P1/A1-11] and fifty three individual advertising items [TR MCH/P2/A1-53], being divided into three categories, namely, farm seeds, garden seeds and bulbs, roses, shrubs and trees. Finally there is an album of coloured printing block proofs [TR MCH/P8/1].

TR MCH/AC ACCOUNTS

TR MCH/AC5 Wages Accounts

TR MCH/AC7 Financial Statements

TR MCH/AD ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMERCIAL RECORDS

TR MCH/AD2 General Administrative Records

TR MCH/AD5 Materials Records

TR MCH/AD7 Commercial Records

TR MCH/ET TECHNICAL RECORDS

TR MCH/ET3 General Technical Reference Records

TR MCH/P PUBLICATIONS, PROMOTIONS AND ADVERTISING RECORDS

TR MCH/P1 General Compilations

TR MCH/P2 Individual Advertising Publications

TR MCH/P8 Printing Proofs and Artworks

TR MCH/PH INTERNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS

TR MCH/PH3 Individual Prints

McHattie and Co Ltd

Material deposited on permanent loan, 16th June, 1971 T71/6

• Chester
• Horticulture
• Cultivation

Premises located at 8 Gorze Stacks, Chester.

This firm of Chester seedsmen and nurserymen came into being in 1803, according to its later publicity. The earliest item in the collection dates to 1870 when the business was that of a sole trader, John McHattie. He was joined in partnership by George McHattie soon thereafter, trading in 1872 as J. & . G. McHattie. John died in 1886 and the partnership was dissolved only to be replaced by a new partnership, styled McHattie & Co., and comprising A.W. Armstrong, an employee for some seventeen years previously, and W. Ferguson. In 1911 W.C. Armstrong was admitted to the partnership and in 1942 the limited company of McHattie & Co., Ltd., was formed, under which style the firm still trades.

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