The Adventures of the Municipal and Notary Collection of Vassouras/RJ - 1972-2003. 2021
Document Centers, archival, access, research.
The work aims to understand the path taken by the documentary sets of municipal, notary and parochial funds accumulated throughout the history of Vassouras. For this, it was essential to follow the chain of events that led to the Creation of the Historical Documentation Center of Vassouras linked to Severino Sombra University in 1987. In order to understand the context that enabled the creation of the HDC, it was necessary to go back to the creation of the History course at the USS in 1972. A few years after the creation of the course, work began on surveying the primary sources of the city of Vassouras. The transformations in Brazilian archival historiography from the 1960s were crucial for these archival funds to gain visibility. The theme also invites a reflection on the importance of the archive for the historian and to understand the material structure of the archive, as a space for preservation and access to information.