Cultura Instituto de [1930s-1960s]

Description: This envelope refers to the different cultural institutes of the different ethnic groups that arrived and lived in Argentina. They founded their religious temples, their economic and commercial activities, and, of course, their cultural institutes to disseminate their activities and identities in this country. The Greek community in our country is the largest in the world alongside the one in Brazil that arrived during the 20th century. They established themselves in the neighbourhoods of La Boca and Palermo. Most of them worked in jobs related with the sea and candy industries. The Greek immigrants founded schools, temples, plus philanthropic and cultural institutes. The Irish community in Argentina is the sixth one in the world although many of them were registered as English; the Irish immigrants arrived massively for the first time in the 1830s in Argentina. They established themselves in the country where they came to be owners of big extensions of lands. They founded many institutions such as the Ladies of Saint Joseph, the Saint Patrick’s Home (a home for elderly men and woman--see EAP375--, the Saint Brigida Alumni Association, the Fahy Institute, many social clubs and churches, as well as well-known cultural centers such as the Argentine Center of Irish Culture. The Institute of Hispanic Culture was created in Spain under the dictatorship of Franco to emphasise the role of the Spaniards as the moral and cultural guardians of their former colonies in South America. Extent and format of original material: This envelope contains photos, memoirs and institutional balances, newspapers' and magazines' clippings, loose pages of a former Nepaco folder, a bulletins of the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Institute of Hispanic Culture), of the Irish-Argentine cultural centre, and the Greek-Argentine Cultural Institute.