Recortes

Toute lettre ou toute correspondance a le pouvoir d’intriguer, d’éveiller la curiosité, d’embarrasser autant que de saisir ou de capter par ce qu’elle porte de mystère et d’implicite. Là réside, sans doute, la part de séduction exercée par les lettres sur le lecteur, mais aussi la résistance qu’elles opposent à un usage immédiat. La trace porte en elle l’idée de sens caché à déchiffrer, une sorte d’esthétique du caché. Ouvrir une correspondance, c’est déjà participer de l’idée ou de l’illusion que le caché est plus instructif que le visible ou l’apparent.

(DAUPHIN, Cécile, « Les correspondances comme objet historique », Sociétés & Représentations 1/2002 (n° 13), p. 43-50. Disponível em: <www.cairn.info/revue-societes-et-representations-2002-1-page-43.htm> Acesso em: 11/05/2015.

Recortes

Records are also produced because of societal customs and traditions. Document forms have been around for a long time, and the forms not only mirror the functions they are meant to perform but they also reflect social conventions and traditions. There are events dictating the creation of a document, if one is to be socially responsible. The death of a friend, for example,  requires the writing of a letter of condolence, even if today we might scribble the letter in to a prepackaged greeting card or send in via electronic mail, short-hand approaches indicating that the societal customs and traditions are always evolving, even if slowly. Every document we examine, from a letter to a check or receipt to various legal forms, are the result of generations and even centuries of development. We instantly recognize the intent of a document by its form. […] Even if we cannot read the language of the document, we can usually guess its purpose (if not its specifics) by the form and structure of the information.

COX, J. Richard. Personal archives and a new achival calling. redings, reflections and ruminations. Duluth, Minnesota: Litwin Books, LLC, 2008, p. 140

Devocionáro Completo a Maria Santíssima

Coisas de Antigamente

Porto Alegre, década de 1920

O Exemplo. Jornal do Povo. Porto Alegre, 26 dez 1920, nº 50.

O Exemplo. Jornal do Povo. Porto Alegre, 26 dez 1920, nº 50.

O Exemplo. Jornal do Povo. Porto Alegre, 26 dez 1920, nº 50.

O Exemplo. Jornal do Povo. Porto Alegre, 26 dez 1920, nº 50.

O Exemplo. Jornal do Povo. Porto Alegre, 25 set 1924, nº 80.