Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 170,775 pages of information and 248,110 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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of Strand, London, bookseller, lithographer and publisher
1795 Rudolph Ackermann set up business at 96 Strand and opened a drawing school
1796 He began to publish lithographs
1797 Business moved to 101 Strand (known as ‘The Repository of Arts’ from 1798)
1827 The ‘Repository of Arts’ at 96 Strand; business also known as Ackermann & Co.
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