Hume Hermanos
Hume Hermanos was a civil engineering company created in Buenos Aires, by Bertram and Albert Hume in 1908. It had different names until 1968 when it was winded up. The firm was connected with an older family business, with the same name, founded in 1882 by Alexander and Washington Hume, uncles of Albert and Bertram. It is also linked to another family company called Alexander Hume, Scott y Hume. Among its main works the most remarkable are railways, roads, factories, railway stations and quarries exploitation. The collection is mainly composed by written documents with a large amount of sketches, budgets, drawings, and cost evaluations. There is also business correspondence. The photographs represent a valuable part of the collection. Though the firm existed between 1908 and 1968 there are material exceeding that period. Through the Endangered Archives Programme from the British Library; Colecciones Especiales y Archivos developed a digitization project of the entire collection.
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Copiadores de Correspondencia Comercial, 1884-1965
Libros copiadores de cartas.
Documentos Profesionales, 1944-1981
Documentación y correspondencia relacionada con la inscripción de los hermanos Hume y la empresa, en el Consejo Profesional de Ingeniería.
Documentos Técnicos y Proyectos, 1916-1981
Notas de trabajos sobre técnicas y materiales.
Fotografías, ca.1893-1940
Fotografías en papel y placas de vidrio estereográficas
Legales y Correspondencia, 1944-1977
Contiene principalmente documentos legales relacionados con la disolución de Hume Hermanos, Empresa Constructora SRL.
Memorias de la Empresa y la Familia, 1976-1985
Materiales producidos luego del cierre de la empresa.
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- 1536 Glass plate -- Photograph
- 1535 Placa de vidrio -- Fotografía
- 95 Hume Hermanos S.R.L. -- Finance -...
- 86 Paisajes -- Fotografías.
- 84 Landscapes -- Photographs.
- 83 Construction industry -- Argentin...
- 83 Hume Hermanos S.R.L. --Finanzas -...
- 83 Industria de la construcción -- A...
- 79 Reinforced concrete construction ...
- 76 Puentes ferroviarios -- Diseño y ...
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