San Antonio de Padua Argentina [1920s-1940s]

Description: This is a handmade envelope with photos and newspapers' and magazines' articles and clippings plus one original document. This envelope contains information on the town of Saint Anthony of Padua (or San Antonio de Padua). These lands were owned by the State until the Irish Thomas Gibson Pearson bought part of it and created a landed estate (or estancia). Another sector of the land became a salt-house in the late 19th century. In 1919, French, German, and English immigrants--Guillermo Seré, the Prack family, and Thomas Okenden—participated in the foundation of the local Golf Club. The railway, however, arrived only in 1923 when the Western Railway Company inaugurated the railway station that was consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua. Soon the little town was called by the same name. In the 1930s, plots of land around the railway station were sold and downtown Padua started to develop although very slowly. Extent of original: This is a handmade envelope with photos and newspapers' and magazines' articles and clippings plus one original document.. Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.