Railway prints and the problem of the itinerary of objects for historical research

The features of the railway companies established in Argentina at the end of the 19th century implied an unprecedented production and consumption of printed objects. The aim of this paper is to explore their material aspects and the practices involved in the different aspects related to written material culture. To this end, we will work with a specific corpus, the Books of Distances, in order to study their contexts of production and consumption, as well as the itineraries of the objects in archives and public libraries. This corpus will be examined from a historical methodological perspective while focusing on its materiality, discussing the concept of ephemera from the perspective of graphic culture and archival studies.