Description: Selling fast food at cheap prices is not an effect of modernisation as its existence may be traced to the beginning of the 20th century. The port of Buenos Aires received delicious meat from the stockbreeder interior of the pampas that was, then, sold at cheap prices. At the same, ...
Description: This Commission was in charge of the Errázuriz Palace that was bought by the Argentine state in 1930s.The palace began to be created in 1910 by the Chilean diplomat Matías Errázuriz and his wife Josefina de Alvear. Its building was interrupted during the First World War due to the s...
Description: This envelope refers to the different cultural institutes of the different ethnic groups that arrived and lived in Argentina. They founded their religious temples, their economic and commercial activities, and, of course, their cultural institutes to disseminate their activities and ...
Description: Between 1850 and 1950 more than 100.000 Arab-speaking immigrants arrived in Argentina, however, they soon intermarried with the local inhabitants. Fast and intense social and economic mobility limited Muslim identity to the home. The Hispanic-Arab Institute fostered the knowledge of...
Colonización Consejo Agrario Nacional [1930s-1940s]
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Description: In the 1930s, a law created the Consejo Agraria Nacional that intervened in the distribution of public lands with the provinces and in programs of Colonización. This institution ceased to operate and, eventually, exist with the interventions of the successive military coups. The Mini...
Description: This envelope contains information on institutes promoting the catholic cultures and the Asociación Médica de Cultura Artística (Medical Association of Artistic Culture). Extent and format of original material: This envelope contains sub-envelopes with material such as letters, a pl...
Description: This envelope contrates on the visual material, especially, photographs that recorded the production of wood in Argentina. Towards 1914, industrial crops such as peanut, tobacco, cotton, and wood were the origins of regionals industries. In the case of wood its cultivation was concen...
Description: Corn and whear were the causes of the agricultural revolution in Argentina from 1880s to 1910s. The cultivation of corn and wheat transformed the country into one of the main world producers of crops. The cattle industry gave way to two vegetables: wheat and corn and they consolidate...
Description: During the presidency of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento founded the first Escuela Normal, this means, a high school from which the student graduated as a teacher. This school functioned under the administration of teachers who came from the United States. In this envelope we are informed...
Description: This envelope includes various noteworthy persons whose last name starts with "Mo" as in the case of Diego Luis Molinari. Molinari was an Argentine historian who belonged to the Revisionist School of History. He was also a lawyer and a politician and, as such, he became part of the ...