Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains only photos of the Hogar of Santa Cecilia. It was a home and school for blind children and young men and women in Villa Lynch, province of Buenos Aires. Extent of original: Handmade envelope . Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains seven photos on the catholic Home of Saint Celina that it is still in existence today as a school for homeless girls and young women at risk. It is located in the province of Buenos Aires and it was founded in 1907. Much of the content re...
Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings that inform us about the Home for old immigrants who came from Yugoslavia. They particularly arrived to Argentina from the late 19th century to mid 20th century. The Home was loc...
Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings that inform us about the Polish Home, a cultural and social institution for a selected group of the Polish community in Argentina. It was founded in 1930. Extent of original: Ha...
Description: This envelope informs us about the Hogar Úrsula Llona de Inchausti. She was married to Doming Inchausti and both of them dedicated their lives to rural activities in their land estates. After Úrsula’s death, part of her legacy went to a school and to the Home (or Hogar) still in exis...
Description: This handmade envelope contains one photo and three newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings that inform us about the Hogar Saavedra created by the Sociedad de San José (or Saint Joseph Society) that was, at the same time, founded in 1874 by Petrona Coronel de Lamar, a Catho...
Description: This handmade envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings that inform us about the Hogar of the Virgin of Pilar, a devotion that set off in the Middle Ages in Spain and grew with a strong sense of Spanish nationalism in Argentina. The Virgin of Pi...
Description: This envelope informs us about the Hogar de la Juventud, this was a Home for young women in Argentina. It was catholic and provided religious and professional education plus knowledge of languages and a place where to practice sports. This is a handmade and tampered envelope that con...
Hogar de Señoritas que sostienen la Liga de Protección [1930s]
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Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings on the Home (or Hogar) led by young and unmarried women who supported the Liga de Protección de la Juventud (or League for the Protection of Young People). It was founded in 193...
Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings that inform us about the Hogar (or Home) inspired by the charitable Miss Victoria Aguirre (1860-1927) who was considered to be a model of what single women should be in the upper...