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General Archive of the Nation (Argentina)

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The headquarters cannot house the entirety of its vast collections, which include over 17 kilometres (11 mi) of shelves of documentation; the Intermediate Archive, for instance, was opened in another, nearby building. Plans were announced for the archives' transfer to the former ALEA Building, a
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The institution absorbed numerous historical archives, libraries, and other collections over the subsequent decades, and in 1957 acquired the National Print Archive, a bureau established in 1939. Its collections occupy around 14 km (9 mi) of shelf stacks, and the AGN is a member of the
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arm of the AGN assists archives and libraries nationwide and elsewhere with the classification and curation of items. This office also maintains the bulk of documentation produced by the array of
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in 1998. Construction was approved in 2012 for a new main building for the AGN, designed by Fabio Estremera, Luciana Deschamps and Javier Gavernet, and to be located on the site of the former
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Archive". In 1884 the archive's jurisdiction expanded to the entire country, being renamed "Archivo General de la Nación".
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office designed by Arturo Prins, and completed in 1920), upon the inaugural of the new Mortgage Bank building in 1950.
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Housed within the former Congress building in 1906, the AGN was relocated to its present address at 246
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Operated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the AGN is organized into five departments:
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of 1810, and of the series of fledgling governments assembled during the
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dating from 1853 to 1983, totalling over 800,000, as well as the
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The archives were established on August 28, 1821, by Governor
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Archive
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Secretariat of the Interior
argentina.gob.ar/agn
Spanish
Argentina
Secretariat of the Interior
Martín Rodríguez
Buenos Aires Province
Memory of the World Programme
UNESCO
Viceroyalty of Peru
Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata
May Revolution
Argentine War of Independence
Photographs
Witcomb Collection
art gallery
bibliography
periodicals
Paraguayan War
boundary disputes with Chile
Juan Domingo Perón
films
newsreels
Ampex
library science

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