2-634-658 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Chartered Bank & Royal Exchange on Cleve St, Calcutta', c1900. Chartered Bank & Royal Exchange on Clive St, Calcutta, India. The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (The Chartered Bank) originated in London in 1853 by James Wilson (1805-1860), by a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria. The bank was influential in the development of British colonial trade throughout the East of Suez, in 1858, it opened its first branch in Calcutta. [The Commercial Union, Calcutta, c1900]