Description: From 1874 to the decade of the 1930s, the government conservative and the ones pertaining to the Partido Radical underwent deep anti-clerical policies. To confront this state the Catholic Club was founded in order to fight the liberal propaganda. Extent and format of original mater...
Description: The Democratic National Party (Partido Demócrata Nacional, PDN) was a conservative political party created by the elite that came to power with the 1930 military coup. Until the 1943 military coup this political power governed Argentina during what is now denominated the Infamous De...
Description: Punta Lara was a beach resort near La Plata, the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires. Before it was built, the original place was a desert on the River Plate (Río de la Plata) near a railway station. The envelope is not original and contains part of a former Nepaco folder w...
Description: The history of Punta Lara as a sea-resort was its birth including the project of being part of what was going to be the Golden Coast of the River Plate. This envelope covers its transformation from a resort of the elite to its first steps to become a massive option for the other clas...
Description: In Punta Lara exists a palace that seems to be cursed. Luis Castells who imagined it committed suicide; however, his son built it in 1910 only to end in bankruptcy. The millionaire Francisco Piria bought in the 1920s to turn it into a luxurious hotel. It became a summer camp for orph...
Description: Punta Chica is a chic neighbourhood in Northern Gran Buenos Aires. It is now one of the favourite place for residential houses and closed neighbourds (barrios cerrados). As other neibourhoods in Argentina its development started with the arrival of the railway in the 19th century. Th...
Description: In the early 1900s, the Portuguese Mutual Aid Society was created from different smaller mutual aid societies that had existed in different locations of Argentina. Its goal was to support the many Portuguese immigrants who were most of them seasonal rural workers. In these societies ...
Description: Extent and format of original material: This envelope contains newsapapers' and magazines' clippings, plus one bulletin from the Naval Centre from March and April, 1931, number 487.
Description: Federico Pinedo (1895-1971) was an Argentine lawyer, politican, historia, member of Congress, and economist. He was Minister of Economy during the Infamous Decade. He was involved in the attempted murder of Senator Lisandro de la Torre, a political adversary. Extent and format of or...
Description: This envelope is the first one on the localities of Argentina, in this case, the envelope contains information and materials on the localities of José Ingenieros and José León Suárez The former is situated in the North-West of the province of Buenos Aires. It used to be a country vil...