Acts of the Havana City council (colonial period 1550-1898)

Four centuries of a city's history are revealed in the documentary series Acts of the Havana City Council (colonial period 1550-1898)/ Actas del Ayuntamiento de La Habana (período colonial 1550-1898). These are the most original, unique and old documents that are treasured in the Historical Archive of the Office of the Historian of Havana in 273 books and that served as motivation for Dr. Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring to create the Municipal Historical Archive in 1938, thus rescuing a heritage indispensable documentary for the Cuban and Latin American nations. This documentary series is divided into two groups or subseries: the original books (1550-1898) and the transcripts books (1550-1809). The former ones stand out for their richness of content and form; the second ones for recording the work of the City Council to guarantee the durability over time of this type of documentary, since they were copies made in the second half of the 19th century.