Reference NumberARC-0558CreatorSargood, Son and Ewen LimitedDescriptionThis collection includes letterbooks, ledgers, correspondence, legal papers, wage books, memoranda, scrapbooks, photographs, office and company instruction booklets, advertising ephemera, company histories, papers relating to Sir F.T. Sargood, and photographs.
An album kept by Christchurch Branch Manager S.L. Partridge (Silvanus Loxdale Partridge) contains many photographs of West Coast general stores in 1936.
Only a small part of the overall Sargood collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographySargood, Son and Ewen were a firm of warehousemen and manufacturers based in Dunedin, originally established in 1861 as a branch of the Australian firm Sargood, King and Sargood. Their manufacturing activities including the operation of clothing and footwear factories. They also owned the Onehunga Woollen Mills in Auckland.
Sargood, Son and Ewen Limited, Sargood, Son and Ewen Limited : Records. Hocken Digital Collections, accessed 09/09/2024, https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/60885