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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consulate-General, Houston: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FO 1118
What's it about?
FO 1118
This series contains records produced by the consulate-General in Houston, Texas.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1118
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consulate-General, Houston: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1962-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records produced by the consulate-General in Houston, Texas.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Consulate-General, Houston, United States of America, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Consulate-General, Houston, United States of America, 1939-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series began in 1939
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting the development of UK consular relations with the United States.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The UK's consular offices in Texas were moved from Galveston to Houston in 1939.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15768/
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