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Argentina - Buenos Aires - Kavanagh Building

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Kavanagh Building and Parque Retiro. Built in the 1930s in the Rationalist style, by the architects Gregorio S£hez, Ernesto Lagos and Luis Marde la Torre on the commission of Corina Kavanagh. Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Juan and Eva Peron at Pan American Games

Juan Peron (1895-1974), President of Argentina, and his wife Eva (Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, 1919-1952) at the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, March 1951. The President is adding the Argentine pennant to the flagpole, alongside those of all participating countries. Date: 1951

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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Ovation for General Urquiza and General Lopez 1860

A crowd of people cheer and clap as the carriages carrying general Lopez and general Urquiza ride past. They had been integral to the negotiation of the Treaty of San Jose de Flores, which reunited the state of Buenos Aires back into the Argentine Confederation. The treaty was signed 11th November 1859, but the amendments were not approved by the consitutional convention until 14th September, 1860. Date: 1860

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