A INVENÇÃO DO ARQUIVO PESSOAL DE SANTOS DUMONT

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss how the constitution of what is known today as the Santos Dumont Personal Archive took place. This set of documents was donated to the Aeronautics Documentation Center (CENDOC), Military Organization (OM) of the Aeronautics Command (COMAER), in 2004 and consists of 2716 documentary units, 764 iconographic documents and 1.57 linear meters of textual documents, gathered by the father of Aviation until 1932, in addition to the additions selected by Brigadier Lavenère-Wanderley in the1960s. This documentary set, although not the result of the functions and activities developed by Dumont, is representative of his trajectory from a perspective. personal, since this set was accumulated from clippings now requested by Santos Dumont. At the content level, documents reflect your activities. This set has, therefore, the power of documentary representation about the life of Santos Dumont and presents documents coming from Santos Dumont's action of aggregating records about his life. The research was based on problematizing the process of constitution of the documentary set that today is considered the personal archive of Santos Dumont. In this sense, we sought, through dialogues with the archival theory, to describe the archival history of the collection, in order to compare the process of producing this archive with that of a personal archive. It is hoped, with this work, to demonstrate that, although we can not consider it, in the canonical sense of the definition, a personal archive, this is the personal archive of Santos Dumont, based on the archival history presented.

Keywords

• personal archive
• santos dumont
• constitution