IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 WTC
Held at: University College London
Title: Western Telegraph Company Records
Date(s): 1883-1949
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 14 boxes
Name of creator(s): Western Telegraph Company Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This company operated services over most of Latin America, including Brazil. It absorbed a number of smaller companies. In 1929 the Western Telegraph Company and the Eastern Telegraph Company amalgamated to form Cable and Wireless Ltd.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Western Telegraph Company, comprising letter books, 1883-1949; staff lists including European staff books, 1910-1930, and Rio staff list, 1899.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
. Full catalogue available online. 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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Cable and Wireless in 1965.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: 1999; updated July 2018