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COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/056

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA

Date(s): 1915-1953

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 45 production units.

Name of creator(s): Commonwealth Bank of Australia

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The London branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia was based at 36-38 New Broad Street (1913-31); and subsequently at 8 Old Jewry (1931-).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia London office, including ledgers, financial accounts and registers.

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:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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
Bankers | Bank employees | Business people | People by occupation | People
Banking | Occupations
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Overseas banks | Banks | Financial institutions | Finance
Banking x Banks

Personal names

Corporate names
Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Places
Australia | Oceania
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe