Themed Subject Files [Mid 19th century-Early 1970s]

Description: The Haynes Publishing Company published a daily newspaper plus weekly magazines that covered daily news of all sorts of fields such as sport, art, literature, radio, cinema, television, and fashion as well as other subjects. The different items may include an autographed photograph of a rising star, an original drawing of a well-known artist, or an article written by an unknown or well known writer. They referred to national, regional (Latin American), international events, persons, geographical places, themes such as mythology, legends, zoology, plants and flowers. These envelopes and folders constituting the Haynes Publishing Company's Archive were what the journalists consulted when writing an article. The Haynes Archive may have started to exist since the first publication, El Hogar, in 1904. Yet, the first photo in existence of the Archive is 1928, this is, when the newspaper El Mundo was first published. Extent of original: 226 physical Nepaco folders plus hand-made and stationary envelopes. Condition of original: The Nepaco folders contain blank pages on which the creators of the Archive, the archivists, glued an item, for example, a newspaper article or a magazine clipping, and stamped it with the name of the source, for example, the name of the newspaper or the name of the magazine, and the date. The Nepaco folders’ size are mostly legal although some may be A4 size. The brown paper envelopes are handmade and their size is, approximately, 45x35 cm. They may contain inside common, industrialised or stationary envelopes of different sizes but always smaller than their handmade container. Each item inside the envelopes are identified by its source and date, also stamped as in the case of the folders. Unfortunately, before the year 1928, there are scarce indications of these dates and sources. The dates are based on the characteristics of the items, the types of brown paper used, and the identification of the different archivists' handwritings. Most of the envelopes and folders are in regular to bad conditions. When the material was located close to the walls and ceiling of the original location in the Museo Metropolitano, their physical condition is poor.