Abstract
This article introduces the report of the research project developed with the Terms of Alignments and Surveys (1724-1891), an extensive collection of primary sources that belong to the Municipal Historical Archive of Salvador (AHMS), aiming to definitively preserve the documentary records of the old City Council. Due to the precarious state of preservation of this material, the work, carried on with simple - but efficient - technical resources, was subdivided into three stages: on the spot analysis of the documents, collection of their digital photographs and, finally, a complete diplomatic paleographic transcription. At the end, with the donation to the AHMS of a printed version of all transcribed documents and a set of media containing the aforesaid photographs, we hope we may add to a better understanding of our city’s urban evolution, as well as different and varied aspects of its society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Keywords:
Salvador; history; urbanism; paleography; diplomatics