Haynes Publishing Company Archive [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]

Description: 31,246 Nepaco folders and envelopes constitute the totality of the collection. The Haynes Publishing Company Archive constitutes the survivor of the company’s actual archive during its existence from 1904 to the late 1960s. Then, the company and its buildings, furniture, and documents vanished. In 2000, the Museo Metropolitano, a small and relatively unknown museum, bought a number of boxes on a route in the province of Buenos Aires. These boxes were placed and forgotten in one of the basement’s rooms of the museum. They were seriously re-opened, identified, listed and, partly digitised in 2011 thanks to the financial aid of the Endangered Archives Programmes of the British Library financed by Arcadia. A significant financial aid was received from the Programme of Latin American Libraries and Archives financed by the David Rockefeller Foundation and administered by Harvard University. A new project—EAP638—is helping us to save, once more, part of the archive’s pre-modern material. Extent and format of original material: Four Series: The Themed Subject Files, The Company’s Files, The Company’s Selections of their Printed Material, and Newspapers and Various Other Originals (that do not belong to the Haynes Publishing Company) 5. The Company’s Originals (or publications printed by the company).