Description: Quines is an Argentine city in the Province of San Luis amidst the mountains named Quines and traversed by a river Quines. In 1936 a catastrophe occurred when an earthquake took the inhabitants by surprise as the probability of such a phenomenon is very low. It scarred the population...
Description: Manuel Baldomero Ugarte (1875-1951) was an Argentine writer an, politician, and diplomat. For a time he belonged to the Socialist Party, he founded and edited the newspaper La Patria and the magazine Vida de hoy (Today’s Life). From 1897 to 1930, he lived in Paris developing his His...
Description: In Argentina, the Universidades Populares were universities that promoted educated for the lower-class sectors. Most of them were created by well-known Universities, development centers founded by the immigrants, or, by neighbourhoods such as La Boca. The goal was to teach theoretica...
Description: This envelope informs us of Mariano de Vedia who was an Argentine writer, journalist, and politician. He was the director of the publication La Mañana (or The Morning), and the son of Agustín de Vedia, and grandson of the poet, politician, and journalist Carlos Villademoros who came ...
Velaz Palacio Matilde periodista argentina [1920s-1950s]
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Description: Matilde Velaz Palacios was born in Madrid in the 19th century. She arrived as a little girl and studied singing and declamation that she then reinforced with more studies in Europe. She gave lessons of declamation in Buenos Aires and offered a recitation in the Consejo Nacional de Mu...
Description: This envelope is an example of many that informs about a group of different people that have become worth noticing. In this case, two literary persons--a man and a woman. The other is a sculpter. ...
Description: This envelope informs us of Jorge Villasuso, an Argentine writer. There is no data on him as far as this research wass able to reach. He seems to have been a government official, perhaps a Sub-secretary in the 1930s. Extent and format of original material: This envelope contains two ...
Description: This envelope informs of the marriage of Adolfo Villate Ulfer from Buenos Aires and Desideria Otaño whose parents were from the province of Entre Ríos . A couple that belonged to the Argentinean elite. It consists of a useful insight into marital practices in a particular social sect...
Description: Richard Hall was a distinguished Argentine painter who specialized in portraits due to his “psychological acuteness.” He was born in Stockholm; his father was an English diplomat and his mother a French lady. He studied in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constand. He sta...
Description: The mountains characterise the province’s geography with valleys in between but scarce rivers. When the mountain’s snow melt, the water is embalmed and some water is collected for irrigation. In these oases the inhabitants have settled as in the oasis Tulum where we can find the cap...