🐕 c. 1920 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Street Life What you’re seeing:
A quiet cobblestone street in San Telmo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) around 1920. A horse-drawn cart trundles past low plastered houses, laundry hangs from iron balconies, and afternoon light falls between the walls. Where is this?
San Telmo sits just south of the historic center of Buenos Aires, close to the port and Plaza de Mayo. By 1920 it was one of the city’s oldest barrios, with narrow colonial streets, inner courtyards and many immigrant families living in subdivided houses. When is this set?
Around 1920, in the years just after World War I. Electric trams and early cars already existed elsewhere in Buenos Aires, but horse carts like this still handled deliveries in older residential streets. Who lived on streets like this?
Mostly working-class and lower-middle-class residents: Italian and Spanish immigrants, local criollo families, and small shopkeepers. Many lived in conventillos (tenement houses) with sh...