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The microform collections of LAMP form a large pool of
historical, political, linguistic, economic and geographical
data and primary source materials that are not available
elsewhere. Information on certain parts of the collection
have been brought together here for ease of access.
This page does not represent the complete holdings of LAMP,
but is rather a representative description of some of the
items in the collection. For more details, please consult
the CRL CATALOG.
LAMP has filmed a partial set of an extremely valuable
collection of documents from the Aramayo-Francke Company,
one of the principal mining companies of the nineteenth
century and one of the "Big Three" in the twentieth
century tin mining boom. The archives, located in
Tupiza, Bolivia, span the period 1869 to 1934 and consist
of 354,000 papers of all types. This era of mining
is under-represented in archival sources. LAMP has
received 34 reels of film, for which there is a subject
index and reel guide available.
This project has been discontinued until further
notice. Contact: Dan Hazen.
The Archivo Miguens, located at the Universidad de San
Andrés in Argentina, contains information on public opinion
research made by the initiative directed by Dr. José Enrique
Miguens between 1958 and 1973. It consists of 31 folders
of approximately 792 typed pages each. The information covers
a wide spectrum of themes of interest for social scientists
and historians: attitudes in respect to privatization, perceptions
on international conflicts that affected Argentina (especially
border disputes), images of political parties, Armed Forces
and other social institutions, etc. Most of the samples
are statistically representative and of national coverage,
although also there are studies between leaders of opinion
and sectorial representatives. An significant portion of
the indicators were included more than one measurement,
with which the file offers the possibility of studying the
long-term evolution of different attitudes, perceptions
and opinions in Argentina.
LAMP holds 538 rolls of microfilm containing court documents
(processos) from Brazil's Military Supreme Court.
These proceedings document the cases of over 7,000 persons
arrested, and/or charged and/or convicted and/or executed
by the Court, between 1964-1979. The official records,
which were copied in secret, document human rights violations
by the military government in Brazil during this period.
The 12-Volume index to
the print collection has also been filmed.
LAMP Digitization Project
Centro de Documentacion e Investigacion de la Cultura
Izquierdas (CeDInCI)
Publicaciones
políticas y culturales Argentinas, c. 1917-1956
Publicaciones
políticas y culturales Argentinas, c. 1900-1950
LAMP approved funding to this archive to film periodicals,
books, pamphlets, flyers, etc., published by Argentina's
many social organizations and political groups on national
and international political movements (including Anti-fascism,
Communism, Socialism, and other leftist movements).
See a reel guide to the filmed collection. 
This filming project involved the Biblioteca Nacional de
Mexico, LAMP, and the Fideicomiso para la cultura Mexico/USA.
The Coleccion Lafragua comprises books, pamphlets, manuscripts,
maps, articles, and other documents covering 19th century
Mexican intellectual history, originally assembled by José
María Lafragua, first director of the Biblioteca
Nacional de México. This 236 reel set has preserved
the majority of the original collection. Separate bibliographies
to the collection serve as a guide to the film. Access material
through collection accession number (e.g. LAF 125).
LAMP filmed 1950-1963 of this newspaper,
which began in 1854 and was the most important newspaper
of São Paulo, expressing the opinions of the São
Paulo oligarchy. This newspaper is an excellent source for
those researching the ideology of the elites and the daily
life and behavior of the poorest populations and slaves.
The period filmed supplemented existing film for 1854-1949.
Critica is a historically important serial held
by the Biblioteca Nacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Considered one of the first modern Latin American newspapers,
Critica was extremely active in politics, especially
preparing the coup in 1930 and opposing, after that, the
same government the newspaper had fought to put in office.
Critica is a very rich source of political and
social information for historians. LAMP holds [October
1, 1914 through March 11, 1932].
LAMP has acquired the microform set of the the papers of
Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1744-1953. The 295 reel set consists
of the Gibbs family papers, the business archives of Antony
Gibbs and Sons, and the records of associated companies.
The Gibbs Archive chronicles the story of the descendants
of Antony and Dorothea Gibbs, and records the evolution
of the family business, Antony Gibbs & Sons Ltd. The
family papers offer insight into the background and life
of an upwardly mobile British family whose success is crowned
by a peerage. The business papers are not only a mine of
information about the business community in Britain, Spain,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Rhodesia, but
also provide information about Latin America, because the
company actively traded in Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil.
The Centro was founded by the City University of New York
in 1973. Its primary goal is to promote an integral analysis
of Puerto Rican society, establishing links between the
island situation and its extensions in the “barrios”
of the United States.
The vertical files of the collection house a wide range
of materials covering both Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans
in the U.S. Central to the file is the collection concerned
with Puerto Rican politics and government. The file contains
thousands of newspaper clippings, numerous pamphlets (many
of them rare), flyers, unpublished papers and reports. Periodical
publications of various political parties and groups have
been included because of their historical value and scarcity.
In the collection, some of the more unique items relate
to the Partido Socialista (195-1952), Partido Comunista
(1934- ), Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico (1922- ),
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (1946- ),
Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño (1946- ), and other
political groups.
A Subject-based reference guide
is available
Instituto de Historia de Cuba
LAMP supplied microfiche film to the Instituto de Historia
in Havana to film several 19th and 20th-century Cuban publications,
including:
LAMP has filmed this short-lived weekly journal
from Buenos Aires (May-September 1967) that reflects the
perspective of leftist Peronism.
Memorias
- Ministerial Reports from the Library of Congress
Mexican Newspapers from the 19th Century
LAMP has contributed funds to the Nettie Lee
Benson Latin American Collection to support the filming
of Mexican newspapers from the 19th century. The funds from
LAMP will support supplemental filming of titles from the
University of Connecticut Library.
El Obrero Municipal
LAMP filmed this newspaper, that was published by the Unión Obreros Municipales (the worker's union for the public employees of Buenos Aires City Government). The union was led by activists from the Socialist Party from 1916-1943. Successive years traded control between Peronist party and the Socialistas. The paper was issued monthly (with bimonthly supplements from 1944- ). Filming for this project was coordinated by CEHIPE in Argentina and includes the newspaper’s subsequent title changes:
- El obrero municipal
Buenos Aires : Unión Obreros Municipales [1917-1947]
v.1, no.1-3 (Jan-Oct 1917); v.3, no.1-v.26, no.530 (May 1919-June 1947)
- Unión Obreros Municipales
Buenos Aires : Unión Obreros Municipales, [1947]-
v.26, no.531-v.27, no.544 (July 1947-Dec 1948)
- Unión Obreros y Empleados Municipales
Buenos Aires : Unión Obreros y Empleados Municipales
v.31, no.557-v.34, no.614 (Jan 1951-Aug 1955); pt.2, v.1, no.1-v.9, no.117 (Jan 1956-Jan 1, 1967)
Paraguayan Newspapers
Approved in 1996, LAMP is filming three newspapers
donated to the University of California, Riverside, covering
the Alfredo Stroessner regime in Paraguay. These
"anti-Stroessner" papers were all published in
Asunción and are now quite rare.
- El
Pueblo (Asunción, Paraguay) November
24, 1966 - August 26, 1987.
Organo Oficial del partido Revolucionario Febrerista
- El
Radical (Asunción, Paraguay) October
1, 1970 - August 23, 1978.
Organo Oficial del partido Liberal Radical
- Sendero
(Asunción, Paraguay) July 1973 - May 9, 1986.
Organo Oficial de la Conferencia Episcopal Paraguaya
LAMP worked with the Fundacion para la Proteccion
de la Infancia Danada por los Estados de Emergencia (PIDEE)
in Santiago, Chile, to organize and preserve their case
files. PIDEE was founded during the Pinochet dictatorship
in order to address the needs of children affected by repression
-- "disappeared" parents, disrupted families,
political prisoners.
LAMP supported the
ongoing filming of 134 Latin American religion periodicals
held at the Princeton Theological Seminary. The Theological
Seminary began research-level collecting of Latin American
materials in religion and theology with intensity in the
1970's. The focus is on Protestant and Catholic religious
literature, and the emphasis is on post Vatican-II material
and the emergence of liberation theology.
Standard
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
LAMP filmed [1861-1874; 1938-1939; 1942-1959]
of the Standard, an English-language newspaper
from Buenos Aires that started up in the mid-19th century.
These dates fill in gaps of holdings in microfilm and were
filmed by the Universidad de San Andres.
LAMP has preserved this major newspaper from
Baja California. LAMP filmed this title, published
in La Paz, from December 24, 1985 through October 16, 1991.
William F. Buckley, Sr., papers, 1880-1948
See reel guide
This set originates from the archival collection at the
University of Texas at Austin. Buckley lived in Mexico
from 1908 until 1921, when he was expelled for opposition
to the Alvaro Obregon government. He was an advisor
to U.S. and European oil companies, operated a law firm,
and engaged in real estate and leasing of oil lands.
He was also founder and president of the American Association
of Mexico, through which he worked to remove restrictions
on U.S. oil and landed interests in Mexico imposed by the
Mexican Constitution of 1917.
Zona Franca was founded and edited by the Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano. It has been hailed as one of the most important literary journals from Caracas, and was read by intellectuals and the public alike.
LAMP worked with the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin to film their holdings, covering the complete run of this title from September 1964 - February 1984 (año 1, no. 1 – 3. época: año. 6: no. 37/38).
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