He Trade Bulletin was published without interruptions from the 16 of August of 1838 until August 1917 and his life ran parallel to the rise and economic prosperity of the port and city of Santander..
Among the large provincial periodicals only the Official Gazette of the Province of Santander, which was published for the first time in the same printing press on the day 1 October 1933 and whose header remained until the year 1983, surpassed the commercial newspaper Santanderino in longevity; long survivals that surpass the also historical social reason of the printing press J. Martínez, the printer for so many decades of the two aforementioned newspapers.
He Trade Bulletin It constitutes the most important economic newspaper printed in Santander during the 19th century. To facilitate its consultation and analysis of its content, the existing funds in different institutions have been digitized.. In total, have been digitized 15.279 copies published since 1848 a 1916 y, all of them, They are accessible through the digital newspaper archive of the Center for Montañeses Studies.
The bound volumes of the Bulletin of Commerce
reproduced here and preserved today come from the
Library of the Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria.
The printer Pedro A. Martinez Ruiz (1792-1858) start publishing the Trade Bulletin in August 1838. As of January 1857, his son, José María Martínez Díaz (1820-1908) is appointed responsible editor of the newsletter. Y, one year later, Upon the death of his father, he took over the printing press and directed the newspaper for the next few years. 50 years, in addition to being its owner. In the last years of Trade Bulletin, Alfredo Corpas Martínez (1870-1928), grandson of José María Martínez, will serve as director from April 1908 until his disappearance in August 1917.
He Trade Bulletin nace, and is shaped over time, as the main economic newspaper in Santander and one of the most influential in Cantabrian society. The bulletin is the salmon press of the time focused on analyzing current economic events., first local, and later, national and international. Multiple issues are addressed in its pages., whether financial issues, budgetary, related to stock market prices, prices in wholesale markets, or the debate on economic policy issues and the analysis of the thriving sectors of the Cantabrian economy. This newspaper is a formidable source of information and potentially, a database with which to quantify maritime traffic analyzed in a long perspective. The port of Santander is one of the key points in the Spanish port network of the second half of the 19th century.
In the regulations of merchant ports of 1852 consider it of general interest, together with Barcelona, Málaga, Palma, Sevilla, Valencia and Vigo, being one of the first to have a rail connection with Madrid in 1866.
It is worth noting, as a curiosity, that he Trade Bulletin was renamed Santander Commerce Bulletin between January 1848 and the 6 October 1852. two days later, he 8 October, The newspaper resumed its old name Trade Bulletin until 1917.
Technological advances and the massive use of the Internet have encouraged us to complete the digitalization of the Trade Bulletin and the subsequent transformation of the images into a format recognizable by a word processor (OCR). It is not only about preserving this newspaper of high historical value, but also to have a tool that makes it possible to automatically search for information by keywords., facilitating global accessibility to this newspaper source.
The University of Cantabria, The Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria and the Botín Foundation signed in 2011 an agreement with the purpose of digitizing the Trade Bulletin preserved in the library of the Chamber of Commerce within an ambitious project called "The Ontology of the Cultural Heritage of Cantabria". The result was the conversion to a PDF format of the 24.488 pages of the 6.666 newsletters published between January 1857 and December 1880.
years later, Work is resumed to advance the digitalization of the Trade Bulletin. With the collaboration of the Cantabria Chamber of Commerce, the bulletins are transferred to the Historical Archive of Banco Santander (Solar) where the scanning operation is restarted, this time, in high resolution of the copies of the newsletter from January 1881 until December 1903, plus five months of the years 1914 a 1916. This work was possible thanks to the generous efforts of Iñigo del Mazo Durango, Guillermo Mercapide Argüello, María del Mar Reina González and Miguel Ángel Bringas Gutiérrez. In addition to having the help, from the archivist of Banco Santander, José Antonio Gutiérrez Sebares. Completing the digitization of the 7.075 newsletters -28.299 pages- printed between 1881 y 1916.
More recently, it has been possible to expand the collection of Trade Bulletin with the funds cataloged in the Municipal Library of Santander (1848, 1849, 1850, 1854, 1856, 1857 y 1908) and the numbers of the year 1865 kindly lent by the Jusué Mendicouague family for digitization.
The Digital Newspaper Library of the National Library of Spain has among its titles the Trade Bulletin published from 1849 a 1852 and of 1866 a 1876 which allows you to consult the years on the internet 1851 y 1852 (in blue).
In summary, the digitized copies of the Trade Bulletin reach the amount of 14.978 which are equivalent to 56.803 pages. If to these figures we add, the materials accessible through the Digital Newspaper Library website, The number rises to 15.279 newsletters with 57.405 pages. In total, have been digitized 55 years of Trade Bulletin for the period of 1848 a 1908, unaccounted for 1914, 1915 y 1916, that represent the 70 % of the 80 years of life of the Santander newspaper (1838-1917).
This enormous wealth of information is available to all those interested in consulting it on the web portal of the newspaper archive of the Center for Montañeses Studies thanks to Virgilio Fernández Acebo. On this page, volumes can be downloaded from Trade Bulletin, year by year, in PDF format, while a search engine allows, in a simple way, navigate and locate the textual and quantitative content published in 57.405 pages (in red). He Trade Bulletin constitutes a very important part of the newspaper heritage of Cantabria, Therefore, expanding this collection of digitized materials must become an objective to pursue in the coming years. (in black).
Publisher's announcement at its second location in Santander, bordering the land of Menéndez Pelayo and the property that would eventually house the Santander Municipal Library and Museum.
First page of the issue 2 January 1849. For this date and until 6 October 1852 The copies still retain the title of Santander Commerce Bulletin. The next copy, of the 8 October will appear as a Trade Bulletin, which suggests the relevance acquired by the publication, that from Santander and its port left for its readers in Spain, Europe and America. At this date it was still published with only two pages. Unless there are more stages that we have not been able to consult, was the 234 of 1866, of the 15 October, the first four-page issue that would later be published until its extinction (The original to which the image corresponds belongs to the collection of the National Library).
Calendar of the Trade Bulletin, 1838-1917: Years identified in 2026.
| 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 |
| 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 |
| 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 |
| 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
| 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 |
| 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 |
| 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 |
| 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 |
| 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 |
| 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 |
AVAILABILITY OF ORIGINALS AND DOWNLOADS OF COLLECTIONS TODAY KNOWN. |
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a) LIBRARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF CANTABRIA [Digitization 2018-2025]:
b) DIGITAL NEWSPAPER LIBRARY OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SPAIN: 1849-1852, 1866-1876 /
c) SANTANDER MUNICIPAL LIBRARY: 1848, 1849, 1850, 1854, 1856, (See your numbers in SLPC) / 1905.03.22, 1906.09.25, 1906.12.31, 1907.01.01 y 08.07, 1908 / 1914 (See numbers in SLPC);
d) CENTRAL LIBRARY OF CANTABRIA: 1911.11.01-1911.12.01 / 1912 / 1913, (Check your numbering than SLPC). [Acronym SLPC: Cantabria Public Reading System].
e) JUSUÉ DE SANTANDER COLLECTION / 1865 / (ASCAGEN Location 2024)
LITERATURE (1917) “A casualty” The Watchtower. morning diary, 13 September 1917. Santander. (1917) “The Trade Bulletin” The Cantabrian, 14 September 1917. Santander. (1917) “The Trade Bulletin” The Cantabrian People, 15 September 1917. Santander. (1943) “The Santander of a hundred years ago” The Monday Sheet, 27 September 1943. Santander. Bringas Gutierrez, M. A. (2026) "He Trade Bulletin and the port of Santander, 1838-1917” in Guijarro González, S. (coord.) History of Cantabria: new topics and lines of research, p. 229-243. Santander. Bringas Gutierrez, M. A. (2025) «José María Martínez and the Trade Bulletin, 1838-1917». Conference at the Ateneo de Santander. Santander, 25 October 2025. Bringas Gutierrez, M. A. (2025) “Commercial traffic through the port of Santander, 1880-1900”. Participation in the PortAda International Seminar. University of Barcelona. Barcelona, 3 y 4 March 2025. Bringas Gutierrez, M. A. (2025) “The Commerce Bulletin a new source to measure the commercial traffic of the port of Santander, 1837-1916”. Communication to XIV International Congress of the Spanish Association of Economic History. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 21 al 24 January 2025. Bringas Gutierrez, M. A. (2024) “Opening to the Indies: from free trade to expansion” Communication to the III Meeting of the History of Cantabria. Santander, 18 al 24 November 2024. Bringas Gutierrez, M. A. (2023) «The Santander Commerce Bulletin, 1849-1916: a historical source, new possibilities». Conference at the Center for Montañeses Studies. Santander, 4 September 2023. Being brought, M. A., Small, I. y Mercapide, G. (2022) “The commercial flows of the port of Santander: a research project based on the Commerce Bulletin, 1849-1914”. Communication to VII International Meeting on the Governance of Atlantic Ports (14th-21st centuries). Atlantic ports and their global connections. University of Cantabria. Santander, 27 al 28 October 2022. Being brought, M. A., Small, I., Mercapide, G. and Hole, A. (2018) “The digitization of the Santander Commerce Bulletin, 1839-1916: a teaching tool” in Heredero de Pablos, M. I., Bongers Chicano, A. and Corchuelo Martínez-Azúa, B. (eds.) 10th Economics Teaching Conference, p. 100-101. Badajoz. Egaña Martínez, A. (2023) The Trade Bulletin: a source to analyze the commercial activity of the port of Santander, 1881-1891. Final Degree Project. University of Cantabria. Santander. Perez Gutierrez, S. (2021) A database from the Santander Commerce Bulletin of 1887. Final Degree Project. University of Cantabria. Santander. Sainz River, J. (1917) «Eighty years of the life of Santander. The Trade Bulletin», The Watchtower. morning diary, 14 September 1917. Santander. Sainz River, J. (1934) "The newspapers of my childhood" The Voice of Cantabria, 27 March 1934. Santander. Sainz River, J. (1960) «Origins and a little history of the press in Santander» Monday Sheet, 3 May 1960. Santander. Rodriguez Mayor, L. (1960) «Twenty-five years of press and journalists from Santander» Monday Sheet, 3 May 1960. Santander. Simon Cabarga, J. (1966) «Old Santander newspaper. The Trade Bulletin» Monday Sheet, 3 December 1966. Santander. Simon Cabarga, J. (1982) History of the Santander press. Santander.
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of 29 April 1916, in the final stage. Aesthetic stability is evident
from the long-standing publication.
INFORMATION FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
SANTANDER INDUSTRY AND NAVIGATION
MOUNTAIN ECONOMY
MINUTE BOOK 1886-1949 FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
First page of the Book of Minutes of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Santander (1886-1949).
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