Custodial history: The documents have been produced by the high school based on their educational activities.
Author(s)/Creator(s): The Alejandro Álvarez Jofré Bicentennial Lyceum was founded in the city of Ovalle by Supreme Decree on July 20, 1885. Born as the “Ovalle Men's Lyceum” it is the second secondary establishment built in the Coquimbo region. Its initial orientation is related to the need to train emerging social groups in the area - public employees and medium-sized agricultural owners -, derived from the boom in nitrate in the north of the country. Between 1920 and 1944 female students joined the establishment - retaking it in 1993 - and years later a boarding school was built to receive children from the interior valleys of the area. Currently, it serves a majority vulnerable population, coming from rural peasant households, from urban employees and workers. Source: mime.mineduc.cl http://wwwfs.mineduc.cl/Archivos/infoescuelas/documentos/704/ProyectoEducativo704.pdf.
Arrangement: Between 2017 and 2018, a project made by the School Archives Program and the Heritage, Archive and Memory Team (EPAM) of the University of La Serena, prepared a documentary cadastre of the liceo´s archive in which series were provisionally identified. Currently there is no classification scheme.
This collection contains the following 4 series.
- EAP1065/7/1: Correspondencia Enviada, 1886-1911
- EAP1065/7/2: Correspondencia Recibida, 1886-1917
- EAP1065/7/3: Materia Tratada, 1911-1912
- EAP1065/7/4: Indice Apoderados, 1911-1917.
