Metadata: Ukmerge (Vilkomir) General Сrafts Council, Kaunas governorate
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno Regioninis Valstybės Archyvas
- Postal address:
- Maironio g. 28B, 44249 Kaunas
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- I-557
- Title:
- Ukmerge (Vilkomir) General Сrafts Council, Kaunas governorate
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Ukmergės (Vilkomiro) bendroji amatų valdyba
- Creator/accumulator:
- Vilkomir (Ukmerge) General Сrafts Council
- Date(s):
- 1856/1893
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 40 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection of the Vilkomir (Ukmerge) General Сrafts Council in Kovno (Kaunas) Governorate includes: record books of sentences; protocols and resolutions of craftsmens' guilds; lists of masters; financial documents, petitions, reports, orders, etc. A file dated 1878 consists of a book of protocols of the Jewish shoemakers’ guild (inventory 1, file 30). The collection also contains a book with records of journeymen of the Jewish shoemakers’ guild, (inventory 1, file 31) a book of this guild’s pupils for 1885, and the accounting documents of the guild (inventory 1, file 33). In addition, the collection contains materials from the late 1880s of the Christian-Jewish saddle-bronze-tinsmith guild including lists of the foremen, the journeymen, the guild’s protocols, the income and expenditure documents.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The General Crafts Council was subordinate to a municipal council (the Duma) and a magistrate. The scope of its activities included: 1) taking care of sick craftsmen; 2) protecting the interests of various industries; 3) supervising admission to and withdrawal from membership in artisans’ guilds; 4) teaching artisans’ children and caring for the orphans of artisans; 5) controlling the quality of work and quality of the workshops; 6) levying taxes from artisans and supervise their duties; 7) adjudicating minor disputes among the artisans; 8) managing the craftsmen’s finances; 9) issuing passports to artisans; 10) judging juvenile artisans for petty violations. At the end of the 19th century the General Craft Council lost its former importance as a result of the erosion of the estates boundaries among the urban population in the Russian Empire.
- Finding aids:
- Detailed inventories are available for free online access on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019