Sources for the approach of a decade (¿or more?) of argentine Physical Education The library of César S. Vásquez preserved in the Centro de Documentación Histórica. ISEF N° 1 “Dr. Enrique Romero Brest”

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to disseminate the existence of the personal library of César S. Vásquez preserved in the Centro de Documentación Histórica belonging to the ISEF N°. 1 “Dr. Enrique Romero Brest”. There will be a tour of its arrival in this repository, how it is organized and the ways of accessing it. Some documents that this personal archive treasures with the intention of making an approach to new lines of investigation will also be detailed. In particular, the focus will be on the documentary compilations made by Vásquez and especially on a document that compiles a large number of newspaper clippings that cover his entire tenure as head of the Dirección General de Educación Física from 1938 to 1947. For his part, the approaching a set of personal documents for the historicization of institutional issues, presents a challenge and an incentive, given the nature of these primary sources, as a complement to the abundant academic production generated to date linked to this government entity and its various initiatives. In the same way, these materials contain valuable information about the different institutions through which this character passed his professional life, an aspect that invites the investigation of said entities in particular, as well as the possible relationships between them and the Dirección General that regulated national Physical Education for almost a decade.