Catalogue description Records of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society

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Reference: 680 POL
Title: Records of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society
Description:

Records presented by the Royal Institution.

 

The Liverpool Polytechnic Society was established on 23 October, 1838, for the encouragement of the useful arts and of inventions. After initially meeting at the Medical Institution, the Society met in the Royal Institution, Colquitt St. The minimum annual subscription was, at first, ten shillings.

 

The Society was dissolved for lack of funds and because it was felt to have outlived its usefulness, in 1898.

 

Summary

 

1. Minute books, 3 vols., 1838 - 1895

 

2. Council Minute books, 2 vols., 1839 - 1898

 

3. Members "Visitors" Books, 2 vols., 1870 - 1898

 

4. MS Subscription lists of members, 9 items, 1863 - 1866, 1870 - 1871, 1873

 

5. Annual Reports, 14 items, 1861 - 1862, 1866, 1870 - 1873, 1876, 1878 - 1881

 

6. Printed notices, 8 docs., 1864 - 1869, 1878

 

7. Miscellaneous printed records, 2 items, n.d.
Date: 1838 - 1898
Held by: Liverpool Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Liverpool Polytechnic Society
Physical description: 7 vols., 33 docs
Subjects:
  • Liverpool
Unpublished finding aids:

Old nos.:

 

Hq 811 - 813

 

Hf 257 - 259
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