Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains seven photos on the catholic Home of Saint Celina that it is still in existence today as a school for homeless girls and young women at risk. It is located in the province of Buenos Aires and it was founded in 1907. Much of the content re...
Description: This handmade and tampered envelope contains photos and newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings that inform us about the Hogar (or Home) inspired by the charitable Miss Victoria Aguirre (1860-1927) who was considered to be a model of what single women should be in the upper...
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...