Research Guides: HIST 317: Rio de Janeiro, Past and Present (HC): Primary Sources

Source Collections in Tripod

Some online collections are available through Tripod. See the History Primary Sources Page for a full listing.

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
This is a digitized collection of 4000+ pamphlets held at the Oliveira Lima Library, Catholic University of America, published chiefly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The pamphlets cover Brazilian and Portuguese history, politics, literature, and other subjects in the form of speeches, flyers, decrees, sermons, poems, and plays. Includes some texts in English and Spanish as well as many in Portuguese.

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
Contains full text declassified U.S. government documents obtained by the National Security Archive covering world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions, 1945-early 2000s. Also includes glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs.
Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series I (1639-1800).
Early American Imprints: Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series II (1801-1819). Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Offers full-text access to English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 including books, pamphlets, almanacs, Bibles and treatises. Subjects covered include history, geography, fine arts, medicine, science, literature, language, religion, philosophy and law. Significant collections of women writers, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare are also included.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Full text versions of books, magazines, and other materials published in the 19th century. This is a collection in development. Materials now in the database cover Asia and the West, British politics and society, high and popular culture in Britain, European literature, Maps and travel literature, Photography, Religion and spirituality, Science, technology and medicine, Women's transnational networks..

Adam Matthew Explorer
Relavent collections include "Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969"

Important Source Collections available Open Access on the Web

Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil - Acervo Digital
This digital collection provides full text access to many documents.
Brasil: Nunca Mais
Collection of over 900, 000 pages concerning torture practices by the military dictatorship in Brazil between 1964 through 1985.
Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira
This digital archive provides access to nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers housed at the National Library in Brazil.
Latin American Travelogues (Brown University)
Full text versions of travel accounts written in the 16th through 19th centuries. See the section on Brazil for a list of online texts.
Pan American World Airways Records
See brochures, reports, magazines and other material concerning Rio de Janeiro. Made available by the University of Miami.
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Browse the collection of materials on Brazil or search for names or topics. Scholars at Vanderbilt University have brought together documents from public and church archives from four countries in the Americas.
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Includes data, images, and analysis of more than 35, 000 slave voyages to the Americas from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Sponsored by Emory University.

Major 19th C. Magazine Collections

History Commons (formerly Accessible Archives)
Contains full-text primary resource materials in American history including newspapers, magazines, and genealogical records originally only offered on microfilm. Covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
American Broadsides & Ephemera: Series I
Offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides (1820-1900) and 15,000 pieces of ephemera (1760 -1900) from the American Antiquarian Society collection. Subjects range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Material types include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.
American Periodicals Series Online
Search through 1,800 magazines and journals published in the United States between 1740-1940. Includes early scientific publications, trade journals, popular magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, and journals such as Puck, The Dial, and McClure's.
Eight Centuries
Includes over seventy seminal as well as lesser known contemporary indexes to English-language publishing prior to 1930. Access is by genre: 1. Multi-title Periodical Indexes (e.g., Poole's, Legal, Religion, Scientific Papers, etc.); 2. Book Indexes; 3. Newspaper Indexes; 4. Complete Individual Periodical Indexes (e.g., Harper's, Atlantic Monthly,etc.); 5. US Patents; Hansard's; US and UK Historical Government Documents