Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings on the Hogar San Patricio (or Saint Patrick's Home) that was founded by the Argentine-Irish community for old men and women of Irish origin. It was and it is still funded by pri...
Description: This is a handmade envelope with two stationary envelopes of photos plus magazines' and newspapers' articles and clippings on Father José Apolinario Casas. He was the son of a Spanish immigrant and a criolla lady who became priest. In 1877, José Apolinario de Casas was the Canónigo H...
Description: This is a handmade envelope with one stationary envelope plus loose material. The documents are: newspapers' and magazines' articles and clippings on Rodolfo Moreno (1879 - 1953). He was a lawyer, politician, and journalist who worked for the University of La Plata as a professor and...
Description: This envelope contains information on La Rioja with subjects such as running water, art, cathedral, churches, library, art, buildings and streets of this very traditional Argentinean province. Extent of original: Envelope. Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Description: This envelope contains six envelopes and loose material comprising newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings, photographs, approximately fifty booklets, and engravings that show the buildings, interiors, personnel, history, banquets, galleries, workshops, repair shops, and ca...
Description: The Association of the Damas Patricias (or Aristocratic Ladies) was funded in 191o by women who descended from the national heroes of the Independence and the so called “National Organisation”--from Bartolomé Mitre’s presidency to the presidency of Roque Saenz Peña . In 1910, they w...
Description: This envelope contains almost a hundred photographs that show the cattle exhibitions in the town of San Justo in La Matanza, province of Buenos Aires--see line 122 of this document. Extent of original: Envelope. Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.
Description: This handmade envelope contains one stationary envelope with newspapers’ and magazines’ clippings and articles, small books on ranching and stockbreeding, exhibition programs, and typewritten original documents on the cattle exhibitions of San Justo of La Matanza, an agricultural reg...
Description: The lighthouse of San Juan de Salvamento, known as the Lighthouse in the End of the World is the subject of this envelope. It is located in the Isla de los Estados, in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, in Southern Patagonia. It was built in 1884 by an expedition to the Sou...
Description: This envelope informs us about the Asociación Argentina del Sufragio Femenino (Argentina Association pro Female Suffrage). Since the passing of the Ley Saenz Peña that had imposed the universal male vote, different groups of women demanded the female suffrage in Argentina. In 1932, t...