Waterfront

Downtown Girl

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July 16th 2007
I completed Museum Quest 2007 today with a visit to Museo de la Inmigración. Here they display all sorts of things from the history of European immigration to Argentina. There is traditional clothing from the different countries who immigrated, ship logs, and video archives. It´s striking to me how similar it is to immigration to the US during the same time period (1880´s to about 1920). It ma ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more