Peru Philatelic Study Circle |
APS Affiliate Member # 258 |
EL COMERCIO, founded in 1839 in Lima is the oldest newspaper in Peru and one of the oldest Spanish-Language papers in the world. 'Almanaques' was an annual publication of them summarizing the many events and announcements in that year. The part covering the postal rates was extracted from digital copies on Google Books and displayed below per individual year from 1892 to 1922 |
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The website of Universidad Catolica de Lima has a repository of old periodicals; they can be accessed from this link |
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Correspondence between the National/American Bank Note Company, the Peruvian post office and the bank note company's agents in Lima. The correspondence between 1879 and 1893 came from the Museum of American Finance in New York. The later correspondence came from the files at the American Philatelic Research Library |