How do Archival Policies Arise: The 1st Auction of National Memory and the São Paulo State Archives System (Saesp)

ABSTRACT At the beginning of September 1983, after two days of exposition of letters, documents and manuscripts of the History of Brazil, the 1st Auction of National Memory would take place at Maksoud Plaza Hotel, in São Paulo. The documents, many of them of public nature, belonged to a private collector and, on that date, could not be auctioned due to an injunction founded on the Sphan Federal Decree-Law n. 25 of 1937. The event would finally be held on September 22, 1983, which consummation would have gone unnoticed by the press. This paper, sustained on the Auction catalog, on the stories about the event published at the time and on the theoretical reflections about the historical value and the nature and characteristic of documents, aims to discuss the legality of private collections formed by documents produced by public authorities as well as the impact of such an event to the creation of São Paulo State Archives System.

摘要：1983年9月初，在巴西历史主题书信、文献与手稿展开展两日之后，首届国家记忆拍卖会原定于圣保罗市马克苏德广场酒店（Maksoud Plaza Hotel）举行。这批文献大多具有公共属性，原为私人藏家所有，却因一项援引1937年第25号Sphan联邦法令颁布的禁令，未能如期开拍。该拍卖会最终于1983年9月22日举办，但其落幕并未引发媒体关注。本文以拍卖目录、当时刊发的相关事件报道为依托，结合关于文献历史价值、本质与特征的理论思考，旨在探讨由公共机构生成的文献所构成的私人收藏的合法性，以及此次拍卖会对圣保罗州档案体系建立所产生的影响。