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Southern Cone Historical Manuscripts

Detail of a linen fragment (ca. 300 BCE) from the Egyptian Book of the Dead showing the jackal-headed Anubis holding an ankh and scepter.

Portrait of José de San Martín.

 

The Department of Special Collections houses a growing number of historical manuscript materials relating to the political, military, economic and other historical aspects of Southern Cone nations, especially Argentina. Much of this material is from the O'Grady Collection. Some of the more notable figures who are well-represented include:

In addition to those mentioned above, other figures for whom the Department holds smaller collections of papers include:

Collections in this area also include a number of official documents and soldiers' diaries, as well as an extensive collection of papers from the family of David Suffern, an Irish family that emigrated to Argentina in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Finally, the Department holds several topical collections. These include:

  • Assasination of Juan Facundo Quiroga
  • Expedition from Cadiz to Rio de la Plata
  • Alvarez de Arenales: Separation of Tarija letters
  • Period of Civil Strife, 1821-1865
  • Documents pertaining to Corrientes province

A complete, searchable database of Southern Cone historical manuscript collections is now available online. A finding aid in Word format is presently available for download.

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