The main objective of the work is to investigate the wide topic of archives from a geographical perspective. The archive, as we have known and studied, has represented for long the place of physical preservation of the stories and memories of the communities and individuals, easily measurable in its breadth and in its ability to collect, inventory and census materials of different nature. The opportunity of access now easily to the archives from different places carry out matters that can be interpreted according to a geographical point of view, such as the credibility of sources, the search for new spaces of interpretation of visual representations, the use of archival material for the territorial research.