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In 1976, the government of Mexico acquires the Casasola Archive, a photo collection of great historical and artistic value for the country, especially for its record of the revolutionary movement of 1910. That same year, the collection was given to the National Institute of Anthropology and History and on November 20th was placed in the former convent of San Francisco in Pachuca, Hidalgo, which had been previously restored and adapted to the needs of the newly created archive.
It protects the most important photographic collection of the country with over one million photographic pieces that cover more than 170 years of photography in Mexico. The photographic material covers different stages of the technique and photographic art, as well as an extensive horizon of disciplines that had in photography a basic working tool, such as archeology, anthropology, architecture, urbanism, sociology, economics, ecology, health, astronomy and, of course, history.
It’s currently the activity center of the National System of Photo Libraries (SINAFO) in its tasks of coordination and implementation of working programs of the photographic archives that belong to INAH and other institutions that are members of the system.