| Balfour, Williamson & Company Ltd |
29 boxes and 18 volumes
Records of the Chilean merchants Balfour, Williamson & Company Ltd, founded in 1851, including legal and financial papers, correspondence and photographs, c1840-1975. The collection includes some papers relating to associated companies, including Lobitos Oilfields, the Pacific Loan and Investment Company Ltd, and the Compañía Estañifera de Ocuri. The papers of the Santa Rosa Milling Company, a former Balfour Williamson subsidiary taken over by the Bank of London and South America, have a separate entry in this list.
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| Bank of London & South America Ltd |
1,140 volumes
Letter books and some accounting records, c1868-1945, of the Bank
of London & South America, which was formed in 1923 as an amalgamation
of the London & Brazilian Bank and the London & River
Plate Bank. In 1936 the Bank took over the Anglo South American
Bank , which had itself absorbed the British Bank of South
America and the Commercial Bank of Spanish America.
Draft handlist available
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| MS ADD 302 - Brown Family Papers |
1 box
A collection of miscellaneous diaries and sketches relating
to the travels in South America and other places, 1818-1866, of JosephBrown (1764-1847),
London merchant, his son Joseph Brown (1802-1874), banker
in Lima, and his daughter Ann Cox Brown (1807-1893).
Handlist available. Other papers from the same collection are held by the Greenwich
Maritime Museum and Melbourne University.
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| Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway Company Ltd |
6 boxes and 9 volumes
Minutes and financial papers of the Buenos Ayres & Pacific
Railway Company, covering the years 1883-1964. The collection includes
papers of associated companies: Argentine Transandine Holdings, Catalinas
Warehouse & Mole Company, and the Villa Maria & Rufino Railway
Ltd.
Handlist available
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275 volumes & 8 boxes
Papers, 1812-1955, of the London merchant bankers Frederick
Huth & Company, dissolved in 1936. The collection includes letter
books and account books, 1820-1904; in-letters, 1814-1850; in-letters from
French and German firms, 1855-1877; files relating to firms in Russia, 1914-1932.
Draft handlist available
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| Edward Johnston & Company Ltd |
1 box
Letter books and notes on the coffee trade, 1884-1942, from
the Santos (Brazil) coffee-exporting house, Edward Johnston & Company
Ltd .
Handlist available
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| Norris Photographs (LABA MISC) |
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1 packet
Photographs of South American railways, c1905-1910, taken by the locomotive engineer Arthur Norris (1879-1959).
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93 boxes & 25 volumes
Annual reports, legal documents, files, photographs etc, of
the Peruvian Corporation, a company founded in 1890 to run
the railways of Peru on behalf of the Peruvian bond-holders. The collection
covers the dates 1849-1956.
The collection comprises of the surviving records accumulated at the London Office of the Peruvian Corporation. The bulk of the collection is an accumulation of files, most of which are dated after 1930, with a large proportion dating from the last ten years of the Corporation's history. Of more special note is the unusual series of photograph albums, with photographs of railways, scenery, locomotives and rolling stock dating from the early years of the 20th century. It is clear that the Corporation regularly destroyed groups of non-current records, and further papers were destroyed just before the collection reached the Library, so many expected series do not appear (for example, there are very few financial records). Apart from a full series of Annual Reports and some legal documents, there is very little material relating to the Peruvian Bondholders' Committee or to the early days of the Corporation.
Handlist: The Archives of the Peruvian Corporation: a handlist, comp. J.Percival, UCL Library, Occasional Publications, 7 (London, 1980).
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Archives of the River & Mercantile Trust.
Catalogue incomplete - enquiries should be made to the Archivist.
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| Royal Mail Steam Packet Company |
10 boxes and 78 volumes
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was formed in 1839 and was the principal British shipping company serving the Caribbean and the east coast of Latin America. The collection consists of records from 1840-1958, comprising reports, accounts, minutes, cash books, agreements and other business records, and including some records of the Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company, Nelson Line, and the Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.
Handlist available
Further papers of this company are housed in the National Maritime Museum.
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| Santa Rosa Milling Company Ltd |
25 boxes & 4 volumes
Papers of the Chilean milling company, the Santa Rosa
Milling Company Ltd, in existence from 1913 to 1971. The firm was
originally a subsidiary of Balfour, Williamson & Company,
and was later taken over by the Bank of London & South America.
The collection covers the years 1913-1975, and includes minutes,
correspondence, legal and financial papers. It contains the papers of associated
companies: Cía Molinera de Concepcíon, Cía Molinera
San Cristóbal, Sociedad Molinera de Osorno, Sociedad
Arrocera 'Selecta'.
Handlist available
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| J.Henry Schroder Wagg & Company Ltd |
1 box
Records of the merchant bankers J.Henry Schroder Wagg & Company
Ltd : printed prospectuses for Latin American issues, 1853-1914.
Handlist available
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| United Railways of the Havana & Regla Warehouses |
12 boxes
Records of United Railways of the Havana & Regla Warehouses
Ltd , a company which went into voluntary liquidation in 1954 after
the purchase of its property by the Cuban government. The collection contains
records of subsidiary companies:
- Cuban Central Railways Ltd, minutes, 1907-1952
- Havana Terminal Railroad Company, minutes, 1910-1952
- Marianao & Havana Railway Company Ltd, minutes, accounts
etc, 1871-1954
- Matanzas Terminal Railway Company, minutes, 1926-1934
- Western Railway of Havana Ltd, minutes, 1892-1952
Handlist available
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| Western Telegraph Company Ltd |
14 boxes
Letter books and staff lists, 1883-1949, of the Western
Telegraph Company Ltd, which amalgamated with the Eastern
Telegraph Company in 1929 to form Cable & Wireless Ltd.
Handlist available
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Last modified 9 October 2006
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