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Foreign Office: Consulate, Valparaiso, Chile: General Correspondence
Catalogue reference: FO 596
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FO 596
This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate in Valparaiso, Chile. Includes papers relating to the Shackleton expedition.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 596
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate, Valparaiso, Chile: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1871-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate in Valparaiso, Chile. Includes papers relating to the Shackleton expedition.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Valparaiso, Chile, 1823-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 127 files and volumes
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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
- Americas
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- There were no archives for 1940-1941 which qualified for preservation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7897/
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