| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
JSS.3.6.2.2
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| scb_order_with |
JSS Box 279 (2 boxes)
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| callnumber |
JSS/3/6/2/2
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| callnumber_txt |
JSS/3/6/2/2
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| callnumber-sort |
JSS/3/6/2/2
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
JSSIII 6/2/2
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| prefix_number |
2
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| scb_previous_numbers |
JSSIII 6/9
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| title |
Eastern Accounts
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| scb_date_creation |
1937
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| scb_level |
File
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| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
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| scb_extent |
2 boxes
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| format |
Archive
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| description |
8 folders of routine annual account sheets:
Box 1: Hong Kong and Canton Wharfs accounts: Canton Line Working accounts; Shanghai Ledger Balances; Estimated profit and loss as at 30 June 1937
Box 1:Ledger Balances: Balances for year ending 31 Dec 1937
Box 1: Shanghai Accounts: statements for year ending 31 Dec 1937 including a long covering letter from Butterfield & Swire Shanghai to John Swire & Sons describing the effects of the war in China on China Navigation Company finances and damage to ships; list of names and salaries of staff, 1:3:30; Passenger with smallpox, 1:3:47; 1:3:61 Statement of bad debts Jan/Dec 1937; spare ship gear held, 1:3:94-101; statements of foreign staff salaries and leave expenses for 1937 throughout
Box 1: CNCo Agency Working: Working accounts additional to the outport balances
Box 2: Shore Properties: Working accounts for full year. Also covers Chinese wages; costs of housing refugees; cost of painting a 25,000 sq.ft Union flag on a godown's roof
Box 2: Outport Ledger Balances: Balances for half year Jan-Jun 1937
Box 2: Hong Kong Ledger Balances: estimated profit and loss accounts as at 30 June 1937.
Box 2: Hong Kong Accounts: Accounts sheets for year ending 31 Dec 1937, including earnings and Disbursements of FATSHAN. Also mentions impact of Sino-Japanese hostilities upon migration and rice trade
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| scb_copyright |
Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
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| scb_use_restrictions |
Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| scb_finding_aids |
Paper handlist available
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
JSS
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| hierarchy_sequence |
JSS.003.006.002.002
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