Latin American Studies: Locating Primary Sources

Many primary sources including letters, diaries, travel accounts, and government documents are available in book and microfilm form. Some of these are available through the Knox College Libraries, but you can also access older texts online through HathiTrust or borrow them via I-Share and Interlibrary Loan.

To find printed primary sources in the online catalog, try a subject search for [COUNTRY]+[TOPIC]+Sources.

 

For example:

Argentina History Sources (in HathiTrust) (in I-Share)

Cuba "Foreign Relations" Sources (in HathiTrust) (in I-Share)

Mexico Travel Sources (in HathiTrust) (in I-Share)

Mexico Conquest Sources (in HathiTrust) (in I-Share)

General Collections

Endangered Archives (Americas)

• EAP060 Diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba
• EAP295 Digitising the endangered archives of Grenada
• EAP345 A survey of the endangered archives of St Vincent, West Indies, during the slavery era
• EAP165 Rescue of two photographic collections of rapidly changing cultures in rural Guatemala dating from the 1890s through to the 1930s
• EAP207 'Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue project of Native Peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina - major project
• EAP298 Preserving endangered ethnographic audiovisual materials of expressive culture in Peru
• EAP333 Collecting and preserving parish archives in an Andean diocese
• EAP375 The transition from a traditional to a modern society: recovering Argentinean and Latin American history through an emblematic publishing company
• EAP503 Creating a digital archive of a circum-Caribbean trading entrepôt: notarial records from La Guajira
• EAP507 Preservation and digitisation of the archival material in the Historical Archive of the San Marcos National University, 1551-1920

General

• Digital Library of Latin American Heritage

A growing collection featuring digitized documents, maps, newspapers, sound recordings, and other items from the national libraries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay.

Argentina

• 'Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue project of Native Peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina
• The transition from a traditional to a modern society: recovering Argentinean and Latin American history through an emblematic publishing company

 

Caribbean (non-Cuba)

• Digitising the endangered archives of Grenada
• A survey of the endangered archives of St Vincent, West Indies, during the slavery era
• Creating a digital archive of a circum-Caribbean trading entrepôt: notarial records from La Guajira

 

Cuba

• Diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba

 

Colombia

• Creating a digital archive of a circum-Caribbean trading entrepôt: notarial records from La Guajira

 

Guatemala

• Rescue of two photographic collections of rapidly changing cultures in rural Guatemala dating from the 1890s through to the 1930s

 

Mexico

• José Guadalupe Posada engravings

Peru

• Preserving endangered ethnographic audiovisual materials of expressive culture in Peru
• Collecting and preserving parish archives in an Andean diocese
• Preservation and digitisation of the archival material in the Historical Archive of the San Marcos National University, 1551-1920