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LONDON SHIPPING EXCHANGE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/021-2

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONDON SHIPPING EXCHANGE

Date(s): 1892-1903

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 26 production units.

Name of creator(s): London Shipping Exchange | 1892-1903

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The London Shipping Exchange was based at Billiter Street. It was registered in 1892, but merged with the Baltic Committee and the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange (later known as the Baltic Exchange) in 1903.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the London Shipping Exchange, including financial accounts such as cash books, ledgers, and registers of shares; letter books; members' registers; and papers concerning the liquidation of the Exchange.

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 Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section by the Baltic Exchange in 1994. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section 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
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Exchanges | Financial markets | Investment | Finance
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Shipping | Maritime transport | Transport
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names
London Shipping Exchange | 1892-1903

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