Solving a Puzzle: a collection “Sao Paulo University” from the Sao Paulo Public Archive

Abstract

This article has as its objective to present a guidelines for the survey of the history of professionally trained workers, instituitions and users of the health service during the first few decades of the 20th Century in São Paulo. It highlights the importance of the documentation refering to the University of São Paulo (1911-1918), preserved by the Public Archive of Sao Paulo State, to analize the different aspects of the social life during this period, to establish a dialogue with bibliography on history of Health and Education and to raise questions about the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of São Paulo. The University, created in 1911, was a private college, and had as its proposal the students’ formation in various different teaching levels. The Univerity founded the Hospital Charity of Braz (Institute Pereira Barreto) and taught/specialized in the area of Health and students graduated in dentistry, pharmarcy and medicine, until being closed in 1918.