Latin American Studies

Includes over 7000 images from colonial-era America (South and North.) Also includes links to digitized colonial-era books.

Searchable archive of over 2000 digitized versions of ephemera created in Latin America, currently dating from 1972 to 2014. Click on Browse to browse by country.

This resource may contain content still classified by the United States Government. Individuals holding security clearances use at their own risk.
A full-text database of over 50 core collections of primary documents acquired by the George Washington University based National Security Archive. The collection has been acquired through extensive use of FOIA. Each core collection is focused on one topic, e.g. Iran-Contra, Terrorism and U.S. Policy. Each topical collection includes diverse policy documents supplemented by contextual and reference material on chronology, glossary and bibliography.

From the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Note that you can create an account and save, e-mail, and export collections of documents.

Digitized archives from a variety of topics and countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru.

The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. This repository includes Latin American projects.

This project contains digital copies of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries

Includes web archiving from Chile, Brasil, Argentina,Uruguay, Bolivia, México, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, República Dominicana, Guatemala, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

Digitized books and documents on the subjects of the history of Hispanic America and the independence of Hispanic American nations.

These are digitized rare books from Dumbarton Oaks' Pre-Columbian collections

LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content.

Digitized files and correspondence about Argentina in the early 1960s, following the overthrow of Juan Perón in 1955. Part of Archives Unbound.

This is an ever-growing collection of Argentine literary and cultural journals from the 1920s through 2008. Titles include Martin Fierro, El escarabajo de oro, El Cielo, and Crisis, along with about a dozen others.

1810-1999

A collection of 715 digitized pamphlets, principally from a donation made to Cornell University by the Bolivian bookseller, Alfredo Montalvo.

This is an online resource that contains over a million documents related to Brazil's dictatorship. In Portuguese.

This is an archive of documents chiefly produced by the US State Department that relate to the Brazilian dictatorship that began in 1964.

The Biblioteca Brasiliana holds nearly 15,000 titles, comprising 40,000 volumes: works of Brazilian (and Portuguese) literature, travel narratives, historical and literary manuscripts (including originals and typographical proofs), periodicals, scientific and instructional texts, iconography (including plates and illustrated albums) and artistic books (engravings). The digital archive has 3,000+ items.

The Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has digitized executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the first Republic in 1930.

Includes elections from 1950-present

Includes data on slave movement from Africa to America, including specifically Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Jamaica, and Angola.

Contains digitized photographs, posters, manuscripts, documents, etc., chiefly from the Pinochet era.

National Archives of Paraguay, featuring a number of links to historical, educational, and judicial information, among other things.

Legal documents and publications available, among other archived items.

Both books and regularly published periodicals are available on this website.

Documents are available from 1795 to approximately 1970.

This website covers modern cultural developments in Uruguay.

The Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital provides free online access to around 250 Venezuelan and Latin American books, ranging from recent publications to classics by authors such as Simón Bolívar.

The digital archive contains news clippings and documents compiled by Inforpress Centroamericana on the topic of Violence in Guatemala. The news stories are arranged chronologically and address the distinct types of violence prevalent in Guatemala in the years 1978 to 1982: political violence, violence generated by the internal armed conflict, and everyday violence

Contains over 10 million digital images from the late 19th century through the late 1990s.

This repository provides access to collections digitized by libraries and universities in El Salvador.

Population, fertility, and health surveys conducted by a variety of Central American institutions, maintained at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Includes some censuses. Individual registration required. En español.

Various extracts from published pieces available online.

This is a private website which contains various articles about Guatemala.

1821-1994

From the site: "The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) is a prospective panel study of health and aging in Mexico, with national and urban/rural representation."

Compiled by Donald Tremain of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Digital story-telling project, organized by US and Mexican institutions

Includes short novels and critical studies. Project by the UNAM

Glass plate negatives, photographs, and lantern slides of the Mexican Revolution taken by photographer Sabino Osuna. Includes images of Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Alvaro Obregón, Emiliano Zapata, and Pancho Villa, as well as street warfare during La Decena Trágica.

Covers Mexican history from the pre-Encounter to the 20th century. Manuscripts, codices, books, lithographs, photographs, maps and engravings are included.

A small list of digitized government documents is available here.

There are a few links here, mostly to scientific and gender-related informational resources.

Collection of thousands of migration records between Spain and Latin America. Created and maintained by the Spanish government.

Maintained by the Fundación Federico García Lorca, this site contains digitized copies of manuscripts, correspondence sent by García Lorca, and a foundation catalog.

This archive contains 285 drawings, made by students of the Escuela de Bellas Artes, between 1752-1914

This fotographic archive contains over 3,200 photographs and 2,000 negatives. The digitized images are organized into categories, such as: Madrid, Valencia, bombardeos, propaganda, Frente de Aragón, la Batalla del Ebro.

This online historical news archive includes "prensa satírica", "revistas culturales" and "prensa clandestina" from Spain.

Contains digitized guides to monuments and ancient ruins in Spain, organized by province. Solamente en castellano.

Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works (10th century-present)

Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

Includes data on slave movement from Africa to America, including specifically Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Jamaica, and Angola.

Contains thousands of digital images and texts relating to the history and culture of the Caribbean. In English, Spanish, and French.

This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women. Part of Archives Unbound.

The CHC contains digitized primary resource material from Cuban and Cuban-Americans, from a wide variety of literary, historical, and political figures.

1959-2008

Apprx. 1,850 photographs taken by journalist Deena Stryker Cuba between 1963-1964 (Duke University Libraries Digital Repository)

Search engine for various documents within the Archivo Nacional.

Searchable archive with various menus in which to refine your options.

Links to open access and restricted access databases.

This site provides links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. The materials listed are freely available to the public and were created or are hosted at an academic institution associated with SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials), either through institutional membership or through the personal membership of a staff member.

A searchable collection of finding aids to primary source material held in archives, special collections, and manuscript collections around the world. Includes historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.

LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content.

The records of Greenpeace Latin America consist of materials relating to the efforts of Greenpeace to promote environmentalism in Central and South America. Reports, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development documents, printed materials, memos, meeting minutes, and other items are contained in the collection. The collection is preserved in 15 boxes (21.5 linear feet).

James D. Theberge was the economic adviser to the United States Embassy in Argentina from 1961 to 1964 and a senior economist for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington from 1966 to 1969. From 1970 to 1975 he was director of the Latin American and Hispanic Studies Center at Georgetown University. In 1975, he was appointed Ambassador to Nicaragua by President Ford, serving two years. President Reagan appointed him Ambassador to Chile in 1982. He served three years there.

The Tomas Herran papers contain correspondence, cables, letter books, and related material dealing primarily with Colombian-U.S. relations in the period leading up to and just after the negotiation of the Hay-Herran Treaty (1903). The documents also concern Herran's duties as minister to the United States.

The Alliance for Progress Cartoon Book Program in Latin America Collection comprises a single series of material in the Ernest A. Keller papers. Keller (1897-1980), a journalist who worked for a variety of American papers as reporter and editor, came to direct the Far East Regional Production Center in Manila, a publishing house primarily for propaganda created by the USIA. From 1963 until 1967 Keller was employed with the USIA in Washington, where he was in large measure responsible for the production and printing of anti-communist cartoon books distributed in South and Central America under the auspices of the Alliance for Progress. The files from this series pertain to the production and distribution statistics for the program, which was run on a very large scale, as well as examples of cartoon books, a fotonovela, and posters produced by USIA and the Alliance for Progress.

The Internet Archive provides access to books and documents. Books published before 1923 are freely available, with some pamphlets, books, and other works published after that date also available.

The Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA) seeks to preserve and facilitate access to a wide range of ministerial and presidential documents from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Archive contains copies of the Web sites of approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies. Capture of sites began on multiple dates in 2005 and 2006, and will continue with regularly scheduled captures.