CRL/LAMP Brazilian Government Documents Digitization Project

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¹Author: The author is the person who issued the report, usually the provincial president or vice-president.   Enter any part of the author's name. (Example: Mello will find Miguel de Souza Mello e Alvim, among others.)  A search including more than one name will return only reports that includes all names entered in the search.   Due to variations in spelling, different variations of names may have be to tried.  The authors of supplemental departmental reports are not included.

²Province: There are no reports from Piaui.

³Subject: The subject list is based on the subjects developed by Ann Hartness for the Subject Guide to Statistics in the Presidential Reports of the Brazilian Provinces, 1830-1889.  Additional subject headings were added based on common chapter headings found in the reports.  A thesaurus of the variations found in chapter headings and the assigned subjects for these variations can be found at Subject Thesaurus.

⁴Year: Entering one year will search only for that year.

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