This article aims to point out the historiographic importance of interpreting and understanding in ample way the images, the speeches and other vestiges that allow the analysis the sociabilities, representations and practical projects lived by the inhabitants of the cities of ‘Brazil caipira’, which presented transformations generated by modernity, in the threshold of the 20th century, in result of the new capitalist dynamics generated by the effect of the expansion of the coffee economy in that region.
‘Brazil caipira’; Modernity; Coffee economy