Description: This is a handmade envelope with eight stationary envelopes of photos plus magazines and newspapers' articles and clippings. This particular envelope shows the Rural Exhibition of 1939. Extent of original: Handmade envelope . Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Description: This is a handmade envelope with six stationary envelopes of photos plus magazines' and newspapers' articles and clippings. This particular envelope shows the Rural Exhibition of 1941. Extent of original: Handmade envelope . Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Description: This is a handmade envelope with eleven stationary envelopes of photos plus magazines' and newspapers' articles and clippings. This particular envelope shows the Rural Exhibition of 1942. Extent of original: Handmade envelope . Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Expedicionarios Desierto al Centro Militar Asociación [1920s-1950s]
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Description: This envelope informs us about the Association created to celebrate the so called heroes of the campaigns against the Native-American population in Argentina. Many of these military men were honoured and celebrated by the Association. The latter also kept documents, manuscripts, book...
Description: This is a handmade envelope with three stationary envelopes with photos, engravings, and magazines' and newspapers' articles and clippings on Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1868-1942). He was a politician who came from one of the richest and most aristocratic families in Argentina. How...
Description: This is a handmade envelope with photos and a few newspapers' and magazines' articles and clippings that inform us of the existence and widespread practice in Buenos Aires of the public baths in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. The public baths r...
Description: This envelope informs us of the once very popular rosquillas that constituted ring-shaped pastries particularly consumed by the middle and lower classes in Argentina. The activities of cooking and selling them constituted an informal job for women with low economic resources. They co...
Description: This is a handmade envelope with photos of different houses of Argentina particularly in the period prior to the year 1943. Extent of original: Handmade envelope . Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Barranqueras Puerto de Argentina (Chaco) [1920s-1940s]
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Description: This envelope informs us of the port and locality of Barranqueras in the south-eastern coast of the province of Chaco on the small river of Barranqueras, a branch of the Paraná River. In the 16th century, the Spaniards met a warrior ethnic group, the empeñes, and the abipones whoo ha...
Description: This is a handmade envelope with photos plus newspapers' and magazines' articles and clippings on Agustín Scaricabarozzi who was a politician of the Unión Cívica Radical and was elected deputy in 1918 and, later on, Mayor of the administrative district of Pilar from 1922 to 1923. Ex...