Cultur invites you to a historical exhibition on how Yucatan opened up to national and international markets from Progreso

Mérida, Yucatán, October 5, 2023. Cultur will present at the Meteorite Museum the exhibition "Brief tour of the history of the emergence of the point on the coast called Progreso as a commercial port of Yucatan", through historical documents that are protected in the General Archive of the State of Yucatan (AGEY), dating from 1863 to 1951.

It also has the collaboration of the Autonomous University of Yucatan and the Pedro Guerra Photo Library.

The exhibition, which will be mounted in a room that is next to the museum box office, will be inaugurated next Wednesday 11, at 10 in the morning, and will remain open to the public until Monday, November 13. Admission will be completely free.

Those who are interested in observing this wonderful collection of documents and images, can do so in the referred period, from 11 in the morning to 7 at night.

The objective of the presentation is to present a graphic testimony of the emergence and development of Progreso as a commercial port for the export and import of local goods at the national and international levels.

In short, the commercial integration of Yucatan and Mexico to the world market from the port of Progreso.

Some of the documents that will be exhibited

• Correspondence of the Ministry of Justice, Development and Public Instruction with the governor of Yucatán on the approval of the deeds entered into by the government with Mr. Edwin Robinson for the construction and operation of the railroad from Mérida to Progreso. 1863.

• Executive Branch Fund; Governance Series; Box 213, Vol. 163, Exp. 43

• The Finance and Commerce Commission of Congress approves the transfer of the Sisal Maritime Customs to the point of the coast called Progreso. 1870.

• State Congress Fund; Opinions Series; Box 1, Vol. 1, Exp. 54

• General Register of the inhabitants of the city of Progreso and its commissioners, prepared by the city council in 1879. It contains the names of the people, sex, ages, marital status, profession and if they know how to write. It registers a total of1685 inhabitants divided into 810 men and 875 women.

• Executive Branch Fund; Census and Register Series; Box 339, Vol. 289, Exp. 5

• Contract between C. General Manuel González Cosío, Secretary of Communications and Public Works and the representative of C. Rafael Otero Dondé, on the construction of a pier in the port of Progreso. 1891

• Railway Museum Fund; Subfund United Railways of Yucatan; History Series; Box 1, Exp. 5

• Liquidation to the construction company of the fiscal dock of Progreso, 1903.

• Railway Museum Fund; Subfund United Railways of Yucatan; Correspondence Series; Box 178, Exp. 1

• Report of the Department of Statistics of the Regulatory Commission of the Henequen Market on the export of henequen in the port of Progreso made by the different agencies of the institution in August 1917.

• Executive Branch Fund; Henequen Market Regulatory Commission Section; Correspondence Series; box17, vol. 17, exp. 9

• The State Congress revalidates the concession granted to Mr. Aguado and Mr. Carbonell of the port of Progreso not to pay taxes for the coal they import for the electric lighting of the city of Progreso. 1925

• State Congress Fund; Opinions Series; Box 14, Vol. 14, Exp. 6

• Plan representing the report of Nicolás Escalante, director of Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán, S.A., to build a reinforced concrete pier in the port of Progreso.

• Notarial File 2. Book N° 816, YEAR 1907, Protocol, Notary Maximiano CaNTO, pp. 1707-1719.

Personalities at the inauguration

The inauguration will be attended by the host, Mauricio Díaz Montalvo, general director of Cultur; Rodrigo Isaías González Sozaya Director of AGEY; Julián Zacarias Curi, Mayor of the City Council of Progreso; Erik José Rihani González, local deputy of the IX District with head in Progreso.

Mtro. Pedro Juan Bermúdez Solís chronicler of Progreso; M. in C. Carlos Estrada Pinto, rector of the UADY; Dra., Rocío Cortes Campos Director of the Faculty of Anthropological Sciences of the UADY; Mtra. Mcad. Cinthya E. Cruz Castro, coordinator of the Pedro Guerra Photo Library; L.H. Ricardo Pat Chan In charge of dissemination and research of the Pedro Guerra Photo Library.

Publicado por: Cultur