Microform Collection

Title: Despatches from United States consuls in Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, 1853-1898
Call Number: MICROFILM 5801
Description: 1 microfilm reel ;
Publisher: Washington: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1969.

Subject(s):

United States. Consulate (Padang, Indonesia),
Diplomatic and consular service,
American--Indonesia--Padang--Sources,
Indonesia--Foreign relations--United States--Sources,
United States--Foreign relations--Indonesia--Sources.

Country: United States, Indonesia, Netherlands
Language: English
Publication type: Correspondence, memoranda
Time period: 1854-1897

Notes: On the single roll of this microfilm publication are reproduced 2 volumes that contain mainly despatches with enclosures, addressed to the Department of State by U.S., consular officials at Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, between August 23, 1853, and April 20, 1898. The despatches with a few exceptions are arranged in chronological order. At the beginning of each roll are reproduced selected pages from 14 State Department registers of correspondence that constitute a register of despatches from Padang between January 18, 1854, and December 23, 1897. Interspersed throughout the series are such documents as occasional memoranda prepared by other State Department officials and communications from private citizens of the United States.

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