Outro porto ou visões do subjacente. Um estudo do porto de Pelotas/RS a partir da análise e interpretação de suas imagens. Cais e praça Domingos Rodrigues (1832-1928)

Abstract

The Harbor of Pelotas is an urban facility that gives its name and characterizes the southern portion of the city. Its historical-cultural importance, referring to urban formation, is indicated in the current urban master plan. However, the region and its architectural and urban elements were left out of the properties listed in the listing of the Pelotas Historic Site as a Brazilian Cultural Heritage, carried out by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute in May 2018. The concern about the heritage value of the region of the Harbor of Pelotas, generated by this fact, stimulated the realization of this work, which aims to contribute to the understanding of this space as a significant cultural heritage for the city of Pelotas, for the State of Rio Grande do Sul and for Brazil. To this end, the work resorts to historical iconography about the object and makes a bibliographic review on acceptance, methodologies, risks and potentialities of using images as historical sources. Within the scope of the Methodological Proposition of Investigation and Critical Analysis of Photographic Sources According to a Sociocultural Approach by Boris Kossoy, based on the iconographic analysis and iconological interpretation of three historical photographs, possibilities of the object's history are pointed out from its photographs and images. The study has as a spatial cut in the public pier and Domingos Rodrigues square and a temporal cut situated between 1832 and 1928.