Documentary collections of Ecclesiastical Archive “San Pedro y San Pablo” of Corralillo Catholic Church

Abstract

The ecclesiastical church archives in Cuba generally safeguard information sources of great antiquity, framed in the colonial period. The Catholic Church “San Pedro y San Pablo” of Corralillo custody documents dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, where is a part of the local and national memory. The archive lacks a study that identifies the documentary sources that holds and the progressive deterioration to which they are subjected. The institution lacks a diagnosis of documentary conservation designed to identify the main factors affecting the documents. Are presented as objectives of the study to identify the documentary collection of Ecclesiastical Archive “San Pedro y San Pablo” of Corralillo Catholic Church and diagnose the condition of the file collections. Is detected a progressive deterioration in documents with high heritage value which are affected by biological, chemical, environmental and physical-mechanical factors.