Newbery Jorge Fallecimiento [1910s-1960s]

Description: This envelope contains photographs plus newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings on Jorge Newbery. He was an aviator, sportsman, politician, engineer and Argentinean scientist who was born in 1875 and died in 1914. Although he is famous for his flying skills, Newbery is one of the best representatives of the pre-modern and agricultural Argentina. He embodies the high class man who lived in a prosperous and elegant Buenos Aires known as the South American Paris. Newbery also used to spend much of his time abroad. Above all, he was a popular idol that the lower classes admired due to his flight in airships and aircrafts as well as his successes in boxing, rowing, fencing, and diving in deep waters. The popular sectors called him “Mr. Courage” and he was the person to whom most tangos in Argentina were dedicated. He was the ultimate “cajetilla,” this is, the fine and rich young man of the upper class. Extent of original: Envelope. Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.