Contains monthly accounts for transactions with other firms in the trade relating instrument cases, etc. Only later in the ledger it becomes clear that the word cases has been left out. The prices are such that the earlier entries have to be cases as well. Ledger could be from a supplier to Boosey & Hawkes [?] which could possibly have been taken over.
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Hawkins Wai Wai Ondiais at Gunnis strip landing
object | ARC/GUP/002/372
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Receipt
object | ARC/HMG/CM/009/001/F56/298
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Black and white negative of people relaxing on covered dock on water, with sailboat in background
object | ARC/GUP/005/042
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Houses on the main road, Igarra
object | ARC/HMG/RS/STANFIELD/003/004
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