Description: La Balandra is a river resort in Berisso, province of Buenos, Argentina. In Berisso, the meat packing industries such as Swift and Armour employed more than ten thousand workers from different ethnic groups, in particular, families from Yugoslavia and Poland. They used to spend their...
Description: In the North-west of the province of Córdoba, on the river Los Sauces the dam La Viña was built in the late 1930s. Luis Antonio Medina Allena was its prime advocate as he was the Director of Public Work and Services in the province of Córdoba. Fits Simmons was its engineer and built...
Description: In Argentina, dry ice was fabricated around the 1910s and, by 1930s, these small factories still produced it. Dry ice was used as a coolant and prevailed before the creation of gel. Thus, it was used for the elaboration of beer, ice-cream, and frozen meat, among other procedures. I...
Description: Flores is a neighbourhood at the center of the city of Buenos Aires. Up to the 1880s it was a rural district of the province of Buenos Aires called San José de Flores but, in 1888, it was integrated to the capital city. It was a small town of country houses that once belonged to po...
Description: In 1920, Pope Benedict XV designated Father Miguel de los Santos de Andrea as bishop due to his social work. Two years later, he founded the Federation of Catholic Employees that provided doctors’ offices and soup kitchens for the poor in the city of Buenos Aires. The main establishm...
Description: Nuestra Señora de Talavera del Esteco (a Native American term, specifically from the Tocopí ethnic group) was the name of one of the oldest city founded by Spaniards in the actual Argentine territories. Its name changed but the denomination Esteco remained. In 1566, a group of...