1939 BUENOS AIRES magazine article, Argentina, color photos people history etc

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Selling are 2 magazine article from 1939:
Buenos Aires
Title: BUENOS AIRES: QUEEN OF THE RIVER OF SILVER
Author: Maynard Owen Williams
Quoting the first page “Snowdrifts behind us, tropic seas ahead, we skirt Manhattan’s mountainous silhouette, pay mental tribute to Liberty, and go rolling down to the Rio de la Plata-the River of Silver-whose queen is Buenos Aires.
Once safely in the Southern Hemisphere, we entered Rio’s majestic harbor, watched Santos pour coffee into yawning hatches, visited Montevideo’s swarming beaches and lo! we were plowing the muddy waters of the Rio de la Plata. Then journey’s end as Buenos Aires, largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, grew against the flat, fertile land.
Skyscrapers notch the sky line, many ships line the busy docks, trim sailboats ride at anchor. This unimposing and hard-won site has become a center of restless energy, an enviable trade, and an enjoyable life.
Pleasant it is, this Argentine metropolis, and pleasant it intends to be. Having started as an ugly duckling, and glorified itself by sheer courage, talent, and determination, Buenos Aires is replacing antiquated warehouses with lush new parks and opening up wide traffic lanes through congested districts.
Once a mud-walled stockade which repelled the Indians but experienced famine, the city and its suburbs now house nearly three and a half million inhabitants, one person out of every three in the Republic. As former President Sarmiento said of a city a tenth its present size, “When Buenos Aires has a cold, the whole Republic sneezes.”
Far-sighted men, seeking to curb its incongruous towers and govern its industrial fervor, point out that if Buenos Aires were to build up to the level now approved by law it could house 30,000,000 overcrowded citizens. Present efforts are to make it not bigger but better, not greater but greener.
Cartographers and heavenly bodies conspire to make the capital confusing to the stranger. Local maps, starting from the river, have east at the bottom and north at the right. The sun, swinging across the northern heavens, moves in a counterclockwise curve. Not the Big Dipper but the Southern Cross is the chief sky-mark.
Street names and statues outline the city’s history. Juan Diaz de Solis, who discovered the Mar Dulce in 1515, is honored by a plaza in the Boca, and Sebastian Gaboto, or Cabot, by a street.
Backed against a modern megalith suggesting ancient Egyptian art, Pedro de Mendoza stands with sword in hand, facing the city he founded in 1536 but could not hold. Not for many decades was Buenos Aires as populous as when his 50 grandees, 2,500 Spaniards, and 150 Germans stretched first their legs and then their famished bodies on this shore.
Facing the Casa Rosada, or Pink House, which stands where his fort was built, Don Juan de Garay surveys the site he chose when he came down from the refugee colony at Asuncion to…”
7” x 10”; 23 pages, 22 B&W photos plus map.
Title: Metropolis of the Pampas
Photos by: Luis Marden and Maynard Owen Williams
No text, just photo captions.
7” x 10”; 16 pages, 24 color photos of people and places in the Buenos Aires area.
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1939 magazine. .
39K1
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