El Santander Trade Bulletin -reduced title years later, as we will see, Trade Bulletin– It is the oldest periodical publication of Cantabria among those of a private nature, only preceded in time by the Official Gazette of the Province of Santander, which was published under that title between 1833 and 1892. The first issue of the Trade Bulletin came to light, as highlighted by your editor Jose Maria Martinez, coinciding with the inaugural lighting of the Cabo Mayor lighthouse, the 15 of august 1839, maintaining trajectory until the year 1916, although we have not been able to access any of its latest copies, whose location we are still busy. from C.E.M.. We will be grateful to all the external collaborations that help us to complete the series of the Trade Bulletin.
Its simple format, first of a two-sided sheet -28 by 40 cm in the specimens sampled- that half way through would double to four pages, Contrasts with what is of world historical significance is a newspaper that collects all the freights and scales of all the captains, cargoes and ships that dropped anchor in the port of Santander for almost a century; Similar commendatory expressions can be said of the usefulness of specific data on products and merchandise prices to study the economy linked to the port and the city of Santander, In addition to much other precious information, spanning everything imaginable between solar and tidal ephemeris, essential utility in the daily life of the city and port of the time, even the news about dangers and events of the Carlist wars or the latest episodes of the final decades of the Spanish empire.
The known history of the Boletín de Comercio covers the 77 years between 1839 and 1916, and the Chamber of Commerce collection begins in 1857, and concludes his systematics of complete years in 1903 (47 years old, with some additional loose copies preserved from the last years of edition). It is about, although incomplete, of an important collection that in itself surpasses the 60 % of the volumes of this journal, that from the Centro de Estudios Montañeses we make available to the world of the fast-paced investigation of contemporary history, even for the traditional and bourgeois city of Santander in which we sometimes forget - the Trade Bulletin reminds us- which constituted one of the important industrial centers of the Spanish XIX. To the recounted digitized copies must be added those of the National Library, that offers the pdf of 15 years between 1919-1952 and 1966-1976. These collections available and consultable in digital version total, in round numbers, the 80 % of our commercial newspaper. Other numbers -qualitatively less relevant because they are already in these two main collections and in smaller quantities, They are found in the newspaper archives of the Santander Municipal Library and in the Central de Cantabria. In both cases, the task of contrasting their specimens with the two previously mentioned collections is pending., although we present the global relationship of the same elaborated from the pre-inventory that can be elaborated from the public reading system of Cantabria (SLPC). A previous estimate gives us some 85.000 information pages in the numbers of verified conservation, figure that includes the collections already digitized and those found only in paper format.
The bound volumes of the Boletín de Comercio reproduced here and preserved in the Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria.
Although some of its numbers have been made available to the public in digital format from the National Library of Spain and some years can be consulted in local public libraries, the fact that its main collection is in the library of the Santander Chamber of Commerce, closed for over a decade, turn this collection of digitalizations into an ambitious documentation, essential to unravel the details of the economy of this territory dependent on Santander, provincial capital in the constitutional period, and its port.
For the thematic affinities and neighborhood in the library of the Chamber of Commerce, The magazine is provided as a complement to the Trade Bulletin Mountain Economy published by the Chamber of Commerce itself, Santander Industry and Navigation. The minute book of the meetings of the Chamber itself for the year is preserved. 1886, with interesting complementary information to which we are gathering around this page.
The bulk of this information, which we had been trying to access from the Center for Mountain Studies for a long time, was scanned and transferred for its preparation and public dissemination from our web resources by Miguel Ángel Bringas. To him and his collaborators Iñigo del Mazo and Guillermo Mercapide, as well as Elvira Lastra, that she was a Chamber librarian and informed us of the existence of the scans, Researchers and readers interested in this invaluable information should be grateful..
It is also appropriate to mention here -for the almost unknown general public- an already old idea of digitization of documentary funds initiated more than a decade ago in the framework of an ambitious projection called Heritage ontologyCultural onion of Cantabria, agreed between the Botín Foundation, the University of Cantabria and the Chamber of Commerce, carrying out then a first and disappeared partial digitization of the collection (1866-1904) and that even today are handled only by some individuals. We will try to investigate these terms in case said digitizations have additional information to the one disseminated here and could complement it., either for the specific publication that concerns us now or for any other of high documentary interest for Cantabria.
Before going to the download area we will make a couple of basic comments. The first refers to the large volume of some of these documents derived from the original scans.; we recommend its download for flexible management from specific software (Acrobat or relatives); sometimes the size can exceed the Gb, what could be noticed in the download times. the second comment, only hinted at in preceding lines, is that we are still waiting to locate new issues of the Trade Bulletin that have not been located until now, for subsequent digitization and dissemination, mainly from the founding stage and the final years in the second decade of the 20th century, although there are also minor gaps in the most complete series preserved in the Chamber of Commerce, between the years
1857-1903. We suggest consulting the classic Historia de la Prensa Santanderina, de José Simón Cabarga, to access other interesting information about this important newspaper. As an example of academic exploitation -in addition to the various dissemination works of this outstanding source signed by M. A. Being brought- We put as an example of documentary use the study and TFG of Silvia Pérez Gutiérrez entitled A database from the Santander Trade Bulletin of 1887. We hope we are not mistaken in predicting that having convenient access to this important resource, Soon we will see new publications on the economy and the history of the convulsive 19th century in Spain., key to the knowledge of the history of Cantabria.
Publisher's announcement at its second location in Santander, adjoining the lands of Menéndez Pelayo and the estate that would end up housing the Municipal Library and Museum of Santander.
DIGITAL DOWNLOADS AND AVAILABILITY OF PRINTED COPIES OF THE COLLECTIONS FROM THE SANTANDER TRADE BULLETIN |
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SANTANDER MUNICIPAL LIBRARY: 1848-1850, 1856, on paper, Ver numbers in SLPC / DIGITAL NEWSPAPER LIBRARY OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SPAIN: LIBRARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF CANTABRIA [digitization 2018-2023]: SANTANDER MUNICIPAL LIBRARY: 1905.03.22, 1906.09.25, 1906.12.31, 1907.01.01 and 08.07, 1908 / 1914 on paper: See numbers in SLPC]; CENTRAL LIBRARY OF CANTABRIA: 1911.11.01-1911.12.01 / 1912 / 1913, on paper: See numbers in SLPC.
Acronyms used: SLPC= Cantabria Public Reading System
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of the long-running publication.
MOUNTAIN ECONOMY
MINUTE BOOK 1886-1949, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
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The. F. Acebo, 13 March 2023
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