Photographic Archive of the newspaper El popular

The archive El popular is one of the most significant set of photographs with historical and social value of Uruguay. It consists of El Popular newspaper’s photographic negatives (official organ of the Communist Party of Uruguay), active during 1957 until 1973, when it was raided and closed by the military dictatorship. The negatives were hidden and found 33 years later. The archive consists of approximately 50,000 negatives. So far, 37405 negatives have been numbered; these didn’t suffer high degree of deterioration due to the metal cans in which they were stored. The preservation and dissemination of this archive enables addressing fundamental social issues such as inheritance and cultural ruptures between today's youth and their parents, or the debate on gender inequalities in the past and in the present.