Identity area
Reference code
OBS/1/2/1/1/1/11
Title
The Observer 'Miscellania'
Date(s)
- 1921-1987 (Creation)
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File
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1 file
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Archival history
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Scope and content
Assorted records of The Observer newspaper dating from between 1921 and 1987, including: inventories and invoices, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, memoranda, blank headed paper, hierarchical lists of newspaper employees at various dates, records regarding advertisement rate charges, and an alphabetised list of publishing houses. A draft copy of 'The Observer' - a printed history of the newspaper by Kenneth Harris - is also included in the file, as are a licence to use armorial bearings, and some material which relates to the 175th birthday of the newspaper.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Tristan Jones
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- Jones; Tristan (1913-1990); managing director of The Observer (Subject)
- Nicholson; Brian Thomas Graves (1930-); journalist and managing director of the Observer (Subject)
- Harris; David Kenneth (1919-2005); journalist, author and broadcaster (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- The Observer (1791-); Sunday newspaper (Subject)
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Catalogued