INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH MEMORIAL

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/227-103
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH MEMORIAL
Date(s)	: 1896-1897
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: International Submarine Telegraph Memorial

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This appears to have been a fund set up to provide memorials to submarine telegraphy and its pioneers. John Denison-Pender, son of John Pender, founder of the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies Group, was a member. For further details of telegraph companies founded by Pender, see the history of the Globe Telegraph and Trust Company, reference CLC/B/101.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Executive committee meeting minutes of the International Submarine Telegraph Memorial.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

Globe Telegraph and Trust Company and sub-fonds, reference CLC/B/101.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
January to May 2011.