Royal Exchange of Sydney records

MLMSS 11186/Boxes 1-9
MLMSS 11186/Box 10X
MLMSS 11186/Volumes 11X-29X
R 2394

fonds

1851-2001

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects, Ephemera

9616405

4.91 metres of textual material (9 boxes and 1 outsize box, 19 outsize volumes) includes photographs
2 objects

MLMSS 11186
Comprises the records of the Royal Exchange of Sydney (formerly known as Sydney Exchange Company) and contains minute books (including half-yearly reports and news clippings, 1857-1964), cash books (1851-1891), letter books (1857-1910), visitor books (1898-1941, 1967-1996), share transfer registers (1853-1962), ledgers (1854-1890), and an act and certificate of incorporation (1853, 1969). Also included are a memorandum and articles of association (1961-1976), analysis book (1978-1986), liquor purchases register NSW, correspondence, trading reports, agreements, financial and membership records, news clippings, press releases, newsletters, menus and publication proofs of 'Mercury's Rod - The Royal Exchange' (c. 1993-2001).

There is also a photograph album (1987), an undated photograph, two wooden commemorative plaques (1853, 1857), a bound souvenir of the unveiling of the Statue of Commerce at the Sydney Exchange (1900), two prints of the Royal Exchange building (mounted on card and frames removed), a piece of carpet and other ephemera.

Box 8 and Box 10X include photographs.

OBJECTS:

R 2394

Timber plaque: ‘His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, K.H. Governor of New South Wales who set the foundation stone of the Royal Exchange – 25th August, 1853.’

Timber plaque: ‘His Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, K.C.B. Governor of New South Wales who declared The Royal Exchange open on 30th December 1857.’

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