The Illustrated Album of the County of Rio Preto (1927-1929): showroom and epiphany of education in the São Paulo State

Abstract:

The objective of the present paper was to examine the representations of education disseminated in the extension of 479 texts and 1935 iconographies that integrate the 1093 pages of the Álbum Ilustrado da Comarca de Rio Preto (1927-1929). For that, based on the principles of Cultural History and Discourse Analysis, we carried out an examination of the social process of production of this artifact and the materiality of the spellings of educational nature that compose it. Thus, an effort of verbal-visual exaltation of popular and official instruction as sign of progress was verified, in an enunciative diligence that fixed the typographical object investigated as support and, at one time, as the incarnation of the civilizing and educational projects that their artificers sought to participate in.

Keywords:
history of education; press; imagetic culture; public school.