Metadata: Collection of Apprentice Booklets (1821-1877)
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Pančevo
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив у Панчеву (Istorijski arhiv u Pančevu)
- Postal address:
- Nemanjina 7, 26 000 Pančevo, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 13 317 344
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivpancevo.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsek@panet.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 42
- Title:
- Collection of Apprentice Booklets (1821-1877)
- Title (official language):
- Збирка вандровки (1821-1977)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of the City of Pančevo
- Date(s):
- 1821/1877
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 2.4 linear metres (8 administrative books and 666 apprentice booklets)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises 666 booklets of the craftsmen and merchant's assistants from Pančevo, covering the period 1821 to 1877. The Jews who inhabited this area were mostly engaged in trade and crafts, thus the collection includes their booklets, too. The booklets were used by the apprentices and journeymen and they provided personal data, data on their apprenticeship activities and travels and data on the master craftsmen who taught them the profession.
- Archival history:
- The records of the Magistrate were transferred to the Historical Archives of Pančevo in 1951, where it was being catalogued until 1953. The group of apprentice booklets was extracted to form a separate collection.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The establishment of apprentice booklets (Wanderbuch) in Europe dates back to 1808, while the Military Border and consequently the City of Pančevo established them on 29 January 1829, by the proclamation of the Emperor Francis I. Each apprentice needed to have such a booklet. The format, content and purpose of the booklet was strictly prescribed by the circular communication of the Court Military Council of 2 April 1829. The Magistrate in Pančevo was responsible for issuing the booklets, while the permission for execution of the apprenticeship was given by the General Command. The qualification was determined by the specific department of the Crafts association, later by the Cooperative of the free crafts and the Trade Association.
- Subject terms:
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- System of arrangement:
- The booklets were catalogued by the types of craft, chronologically arranged.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids were compiled: analytical inventory; The Archival Fonds and Collections in the Archives of SFRY, SAP Vojvodina; Sremski Karlovci, 1977; Guide Through the Archival Fonds in the Historical Archives of Pančevo, Sremski Karlovci, 1973; Informational Booklet of the Historical Archives of Pančevo No. 23 (1991).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Smiljka Vučur; Historical Archives of Pančevo; 2020
