Significant historiographic chronicle of inscriptions of patrimonial identification in Tampico, Tamaulipas

Abstract

The built heritage located in the historic center of the city of Tampico, declared a heritage zone of historic and artistic monuments in 1990, was built between 1890 and 1930 from the Porfiriato period, considered the time of the oil boom. In that sense, the architectural and visual history of the city is compromised in its construction with a landscape built as a consequence of the social needs and consumption of merchandise; companies and industry, which were determinants of that historical moment and gave a representative cultural meaning. This study considers particularly those historical buildings that contain on their facade’s inscriptions, names, numbers or symbols, as a historiographic narrative of the visual and discursive meaning named identification inscriptions. The contribution of a formal study for the defragmented narrativity of the graphic historicity with its own inscribed characteristics of the culture of Tampico, which, due to the affectations caused by diverse factors, put at risk its permanence and veracity in a structural and formal way, becomes important. This is how the contextual historiographic narrative contributes to point out the inscriptional graphic value.