Resources
Americas (Outside of the U.S.)
The Americas consist of South, Central (Latin America and Caribbean collections), and North America. The U.S. section is contained on a separate Resources page. This page will contain information (resources and links) to other areas and countries. Some maps have been included from the Library of Congress (LOC) which provided access for educational and research purposes. Each map has a citation with a link to direct the user to the map.
The photograph of the rock outcrop and Rio Grande, with Sierra de San Vincente in the background. This photograph was taken in Boquillas Del Carmen, Coahila, Mexico.
Latin American and Caribbean Collections
(all sources, as of 21 September 2023)
Websites:
Latin American Collections
Benson Latin American Collection – https://www.lib.utexas.edu/about/locations/benson.
Caribbean, Amazon and the Guyana Plateau Digital Library – http://www.manioc.org/.
Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera – https://lae.princeton.edu/.
Digital Library of the Caribbean – https://dloc.com/.
Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, & Iberian (LACLI) Online Free E-resources – https://lacli.info/.
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection – https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/latin-american-pamphlet-digital-collection. (“Scarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th centuries”).
Library of Congress: Mexico: Hispanic Reading Room Country Guide – https://guides.loc.gov/mexico-country-guide.
Tulane University Libraries:
– Mesoamerican Painted Manuscripts at the Latin American Library – https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:p16313coll37.
– Mexican Incunabula (1559-1600) at the Latin American Library – https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:p16313coll15.
Slave Societies – https://www.slavesocieties.info/.
Slavery Images – http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/page/welcome .
Anguilla
Government of Anguilla The Edison L. Hughes Education & Library Complex – http://www.gov.ai/library.php.
Argentina
Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas – https://ahira.com.ar/.
Archivo Nacional de la Memoria – https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/ANM.
Archivos Histórico de los Servicos de Radiodifusión Sonora y Televisiva del Estado Nacional (RTA) Archive Prima. https://www.archivorta.com.ar/.
(audiovisual material from Argentina including radio and television broadcasts).
Biblioteca Nacional “Mariano Moreno” de la República Argentina, Colleciones Digitales – https://catalogo.bn.gov.ar/F/?func=find-m. (digital access to a growing number of books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, photos and audiovisual material of cultural and historic value).
Ministerio de Cultura – https://www.argentina.gob.ar/cultura.
Museo Moises Ville – https://museomoisesville.com.ar/resena2.htm.
Repositorio Digital Universidad Torcuato Di Tella – https://repositorio.utdt.edu/.
Bahamas
The Department of Archives, Commonwealth of The Bahamas – http://www.bahamasnationalarchives.bs/.
Barbados
Barbados National Archives (Department of Archives) – https://barbados.org/barbados-national-archives.htm.
Belize
Belize Archives and Records Service – https://archives.gov.bz/.
Boliva
Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia (ABNB) – https://www.archivoybibliotecanacionales.org.bo/abnb/index.php.
El Carocolino & Litoral (UCONN) – http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:LANBolivia. (two unique newspapers (El Caracolino and El Litoral). 1872-1878).
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection – https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/latin-american-pamphlet-digital-collection.
Brazil
Arquivo Ana Lagôa Universidade Federal de São Carlos- http://www.arqanalagoa.ufscar.br/.
Arquivo Nacional – https://www.gov.br/arquivonacional/pt-br.
Digital Archives of the Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil – https://bndigital.bn.gov.br/.
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Digital Repository – https://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/.
Researching Brazil – https://liblatam.sitehost.iu.edu/researching-brazil/index.php?go=hm .
Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands National Archives Genealogy Brochure – http://www.cina.gov.ky/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/13230574.PDF.
Explore Cayman – History of the Cayman Islands – https://www.explorecayman.com/about-cayman/history-of-the-cayman-islands.
Chile
Archivo Nacional de Chile – https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/.
Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Chile – http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/bnd/612/w3-channel.html.
Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973 – https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8.htm.
Chile Documentation Project National Security Archive – https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/latin_america/chile.htm.
Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos DIBAM – https://www.registromuseoschile.cl/663/w3-channel.html.
Hemeroteca. Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Chile – http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/bnd/630/w3-channel.html.
Memoria Chilena Biblioteca Nacional de Chile – http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-channel.html.
Memoria Viva – https://memoriaviva.com/nuevaweb/.
Columbia
Archivo General de la Nación – https://www.archivogeneral.gov.co/agn/home/.
Biblioteca Digital. Bibliioteca Nacional de Colombia – https://catalogoenlinea.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/client/es_ES/bd.
Hemeroteca Digital Histórica. Colombia – https://www.banrepcultural.org/biblioteca-virtual/colecciones-digitales/hemeroteca-historica.
Universidad Nacional de Columbia – http://www.archivo.bogota.unal.edu.co/.
Costa Rica
Archivo Nacional Costa Rica – https://www.archivonacional.go.cr/.
Biblioteca Digital. Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas. Costa Rica – https://sinabi.go.cr/biblioteca%20digital/index.aspx.
Cuba
Archivo Cuba – https://cubaarchive.org/.
University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) Digital Collections – https://www.library.miami.edu/chc/digitalcollections.html.
Curaçao
Nationaal Archief Curaçao – https://www.nationaalarchief.cw/.
Dominican Republic
Archivo General de la Nacion – https://agn.gob.do/.
Archivo Histórico de Santiago – https://archivohistorico.santiagodominicana.com/.
Ecuador
Library of the Tourism – Government of Ecuador – https://www.turismo.gob.ec/biblioteca/.
El Salvador
Gobierno de El Salvador – https://www.cultura.gob.sv/.
French Guyana
Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer for French Guyana records – http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/index.html.
Guadeloupe
Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer for Guadeloupe records – http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/en/index.html.
Guatemala
Archivo Histórico (CIRMA) – http://cirma.org.gt/glifos/index.php?title=Categor%C3%ADa:AH.
Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesomérica (CIRMA) – http://cirma.org.gt/glifos/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_principal.
Historia del Archivo General de Centroamérica que se encuentra en Guatemala – https://aprende-guatemala-com.translate.goog/cultura-guatemalteca/general/historia-del-archivo-general-de-centroamerica-que-se-encuentra-en-guatemala/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_hist=true.
Jamaica
National Library of Jamaica – https://nlj.gov.jm/digital-collections/.
Martinique
Archives Territoriales de Martinique – https://www.patrimoines-martinique.org/.
Mexico
Archivo Histórico de la UNAM – http://www.ahunam.unam.mx/.
Arizona-Sonora Documents Online – http://content.library.arizona.edu/collections/asdo/. (Archival collections relating to Sonora, Mexico, located in three Arizona repositories).
Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Mexico – https://catalogo.iib.unam.mx/.
Early Nahuatl Library – https://enl.wired-humanities.org/content/welcome-early-nahuatl-library. (Early Nahuatl-language resources (ca. 1540-1825)).
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México – https://hndm.iib.unam.mx/index.php/es/.
Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers – https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/irmn.
The Mapas Project – https://mapas.wired-humanities.org/.
Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura – https://www.inc.gob.ni/.
Panama
Archivo Nacional de Panamá – https://www.archivonacional.gob.pa/.
Biblioteca Digital Panameña – http://binal.ac.pa/binal/index.php.
University of Florida Digital Collections: Panama and the Canal – https://ufdc.ufl.edu/collections/pcm.
Biblioteca Nacional Paraquay – http://bibliotecanacional.gov.py/bibliotecadigital/.
Peru
Archivo General de la Nación – http://www.agn.gob.pe/.
Biblioteca Digital (U Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) – https://cedoc.sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/biblioteca-digital/.
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú Digital – http://bibliotecadigital.bnp.gob.pe/portal-bnp-web/#/.
Publicaciones Periódicas Peruanas (1721-2019) – https://fuenteshistoricasdelperu.com/publicaciones-periodicas-peruanas/.
Puerto Rico
Archivo Digital Nacional de Puerto Rico – https://adnpr.net/fundacion-luis-munoz-marin/.
Arquidiócesis de San Juan de Puerto Rico – https://www.arqsj.org/.
Guide to Puerto Rican Records in the National Archives, New York City – https://www.archives.gov/files/nyc/finding-aids/puerto-rican-records-guide.pdf.
Instituto de cultura puertorriqueña – https://www.archivoicp.com/.
Suriname
Nationaal Archief Suriname – https://nationaalarchief.sr/. Suriname collections at the Netherlands National Archives – https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoeken?activeTab=nts&searchTerm=suriname.
Trinidad & Tobago
National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago – http://natt.gov.tt/.
National Library of Trinidad and Tobago – https://www.nalis.gov.tt/Resources/Digital-Library .
Turks & Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos National Museum – https://www.tcmuseum.org/.
Uruguay
Archivo General de la Nación – http://www.agn.gub.uy/.
Colecciones Digitales. Biblioteca Nacional del Uruguay – http://bibliotecadigital.bibna.gub.uy:8080/jspui/.
Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay – http://www.periodicas.edu.uy/indice.php.
Universidad de la República Archivo General
Venezuela
Academia Nacional de la Historia – https://www.anhvenezuela.org.ve/.
Archivo General de la Nación – http://agn.gob.ve/.
Virgin Islands
The Division of Libraries, Archives & Museums – http://virginislandspace.org/Division%20of%20Libraries/historyarchives.html.
Territorial Archives – http://www.virginislandspubliclibraries.org/.
Virgin Islands (Danish West Indies, 1671-1917) at the Danish National Archives – https://www.virgin-islands-history.org/en/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (2006) Latin America. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006627988/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (1996) Argentina. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005631601/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (1980) Barbados. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/84694193/.
Tanner, H. S. (1846) Brazil. [S.l] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003627067/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (2009) Chile, Administrative Divisions. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009578593/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (2004) Dominican Republic. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004633434/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (2000) Guatemala. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2001624304/.
Bartholomew, J. G., Grosvenor, G. H., National Geographic Society, U. S. & Edinburgh Geographical Institute. (1911) The National Geographic Magazine map of Mexico. [Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010593157/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (1995) Panama. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/95684530/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (1991) Peru. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005631228/.
United States Central Intelligence Agency. (1983) Trinidad and Tobago. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/84694198/.
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