Description: Herminia Brumana (1897-1954) was daughter of an Italian immigrant in Argentina and dedicated herself to be a writer and a journalist. She also worked to foster national education. She published essays, short stories, and theatrical works. She also founded a magazine in his native tow...
Description: San Antonio de los Cobres (Saint Anthony of Copper) is a town in the province of Salta. The nearby Sierra del Cobre gave it its name due to the copper mines in existence. The train is and was part of the Santa-Antofagasta railway branch. Extent and format of original material: Envelope
Description: The Señor de Sumalao is dark Christ in a painting from Cuzco created in the beginning of the 17th century. It was being taken to the province of San Juan since Peru when the mule refused to advance. This was interpreted as divine will and the painting remained in Sumalao. Extent an...
Description: We decided to inclunde this folder given the subject as the original groups in Argentina were kept in their traditional enclave. Their situation will not improve until a fair distribution of the land takes place in the country because their presence threaten the fair distribution of ...
Italo Argentina Colonización Compañía [1920s-1930s]
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Description: In the Patagonian region, the Compañía Ítalo-Argentina de Colonización (the Italian-Argentine Colonisation Company) purchased lands in order to build cities. The lands were bought to Manuel Zorrila and the company divided it in various plot and sold to Italian families. Italian inves...
Description: The Sociedad Italia Unita (the United Italian Society) was one of the first centers of general education created by the Italian immigrants in the 1870s. It was part of the Italian pedagogic commission summing up 1800 educational associations that were scarcely enough given the number...
Description: José Ingenieros (1877 – 1925) was an Argentine philosopher that followed the ideas of Positivism as developed by Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. He was born in Italy-in the city of Palermo—and was an Italian immigrant who studied medicine thus enhancing the role of ...
Description: It is the Argentine most important sea-side resort. During the last decades of the 19th century the railways arrived and tourism started to flourish catering the upper class from Buenos Aires. Duringthe 1930s and definetly by the 1940s, both the middle sector and the working class s...