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Bank of London and South America Archives
Catalogue reference: BOLSA
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This record is about the Bank of London and South America Archives dating from c1862-1956.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BOLSA
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Title (The name of the record)
- Bank of London and South America Archives
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1862-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letter books and accounting records of the Bank of London and South America and its constituent banks, c1862-1956. Letters relate especially to Uruguay from 1864, Argentina from 1865, Brazil from 1868 and Chile from 1888.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- Bank of London and South America
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1,140 volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Deposited on indefinite loan in 1969 by the Bank of London and South America, and in 1982 by Lloyds Bank International. Additional papers found in 1973 by Dr Blakemore among the papers of David Joslin.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Handlist. See also 'A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History of Latin America and the Caribbean in the British Isles', ed Peter Walne (Oxford University Press, London, 1973).
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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 Bank of London and South America was formed in October 1923 as an amalgamation of the London and Brazilian Bank and the London and River Plate Bank. They were brought together by Lloyds Bank. The amalgamation occurred to prevent the two banks competing and pushing one of them out of business, as most of their branches were in the same cities and they were carrying out the same kind of business. Lloyds retained overall control, though it was joined by other shareholders. In 1936 the Bank took over the Anglo-South American Bank, which had itself absorbed the British Bank of South America and the Commercial Bank of Spanish America. It is now a subsidiary of Lloyds Bank International.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/b1171c5e-04d5-404c-8387-838d9b0e45d6/
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Bank of London and South America Archives