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RIVER PLATE TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/101-27

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: RIVER PLATE TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1865-1936

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 6 production units.

Name of creator(s): River Plate Telegraph Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company was formed in 1865 to operate a telegraphic service between Argentina and Uruguay. It was formed by John Proudfoot, a Liverpool merchant, and Matthew Gray, a Glasgow engineer. It later merged with other associated telegraph companies to form Cable and Wireless.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

River Plate Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes of board meetings, including directors' annual reports and accounts and a ledger.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1990 by Globe Investment Trust Plc as part of the records of Globe Telegraph and Trust Co Ltd and were catalogued by a member of staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

CLC/B/101-01: Globe Telegraph and Trust Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-02: Aberdeen, Ceylon and Eastern Trust Ltd;
CLC/B/101-03: Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London Trust Ltd;
CLC/B/101-04: African Direct Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-05: Associated Cable Companies;
CLC/B/101-06: British Australian Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-07: British Indian Extension Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-08: British Indian Submarine Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-09: Cable and Wireless (Holding) Ltd;
CLC/B/101-10: Cable and Wireless Ltd;
CLC/B/101-11: Cables Investment Trust Ltd;
CLC/B/101-12: China Submarine Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-13: Companhia Telegrafica Platino Brasileira;
CLC/B/101-14: Connaught Trust Ltd;
CLC/B/101-15: Deutsche See Telegraphen Gesellschaft;
CLC/B/101-16: Direct Spanish Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-17: Eastern and South African Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-18: Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-19: Eastern Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-20: Electra House Ltd;
CLC/B/101-21: Europe and Azores Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-22: Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-23: Great Western Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-24: Marseilles, Algiers and Malta Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-25: Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-26: Pacific and European Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-27: River Plate Telegraph Co Ltd;
CLC/B/101-28: Share Investment Trust;
CLC/B/101-29: Victoria Embankment Properties Ltd;
CLC/B/101-30: West African Telegraph Co Ltd.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Telegraph cables | Communication equipment
Telegraphs | Communication equipment
Telegraphy | Telecommunications
Communication industry

Personal names

Corporate names
River Plate Telegraph Co Ltd

Places
Argentina | South America
Uruguay | South America