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Description: | c1890.
Image shows the reverse side of a business card produced by Beck & Inchbold of Leeds for the firm of G.H. Roberts & Co., c1890. The premises, as depicted in this lithograph, were located at the junction of Toronto Street and Quebec Street in the City Centre. They were addressed in the Slater's Directory of Leeds for the year 1890 as number 10 Toronto Street. (For a photograph of the building from the 1970s see Leodis image ID 20041221_20902651). The firm of G.H. Roberts & Co. manufactured and sold clothing. The business included a hosiery factory in Tong Road, Upper Wortley and an underclothing works in St. Lukes Road, Beeston. The folded corner of the main drawing reveals a circular image of a female factory worker who is operating an early sock-making machine known as an auto knitter. These buildings are now demolished and were replaced in the 1980s by Cloth Hall Court. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | business card Toronto Street Quebec Street Roberts | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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