Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Mexico | 8,477 issues | Sep 16, 1881 - Nov 15, 1914

Mexico | 1,047 issues | Aug 1, 1880 - Dec 26, 1929

Mexico | 34 issues | Sep 3, 1899 - May 19, 1900

Mexico | 38 issues | Jul 1, 1879 - Oct 31, 1889

Mexico | 127 issues | May 19, 1910 - Dec 26, 1912

Mexico | 1,374 issues | Sep 15, 1871 - Oct 12, 1876

Mexico | 7,147 issues | Nov 9, 1889 - Dec 31, 1914

Mexico | 34 issues | May 1, 1887 - Dec 25, 1887

Mexico | 60 issues | Jul 22, 1893 - Sep 16, 1894

New York, USA | 248 issues | Jan 2, 1962 - Apr 29, 1963

New York, USA | 689 issues | May 2, 1963 - Jun 21, 1968

Mexico | 469 issues | Jul 1, 1884 - Dec 31, 1885

Mexico | 3,784 issues | Apr 1, 1890 - Dec 31, 1918

Mexico | 4,423 issues | Sep 26, 1900 - Aug 22, 1914

Mexico | 1,960 issues | May 13, 1865 - Dec 31, 1886

Mexico | 2,777 issues | Nov 13, 1886 - Oct 15, 1896

Mexico | 967 issues | Jun 25,1893 - Oct 15, 1896

Columbia | 21,397 issues | Feb 2, 1911 - Mar 31, 2007.

Mexico | 5,194 issues | Nov 16, 1848 - Dec 7, 1901

Brazil | 18,167 issues | Apr 8, 1891 - Dec 31, 1999

Costa Rica | 9,480 issues | Nov 13, 1945 - Dec 31, 1991

Los Angeles, USA | 23,971 issues | Mar 8, 1891 - Sep 30, 2008

Mexico | 1,915 issues | Dec 26, 1857 - Mar 31, 1867

The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton University’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. LOC partners retain all rights to their materials and provide access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

This site hosts a database of listings that provide links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, the listings may be searched by country, genre/format, hosting institution, and collection title.

The Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP) is a project to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web." Typically, this content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers. Browsing through, there are documents from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

LANE is formed by a group of academic and research libraries in the northeastern United States committed to building and maintaining Latin American studies collections. Includes links to primary source collections.

The Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA) is a digital archive containing copies of the web sites of approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Exhibits and digital collections on literature, government & military, and history & culture

Over 8,000 Documents of 20th and 21st⁠-⁠century art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and among US Latino communities

Scarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pamphlets, posters, and other campaign literature issued primarily by political parties in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and El Salvador (722 digital objects)

AILLA is a digital language archive of recordings, texts, and other multimedia materials in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America. Anyone with an Internet connection who navigates the AILLA website. Anonymous Users can browse and read the metadata in AILLA, but they cannot access any of the media files. To gain access to the media files, the anonymous user must create a free account and log in.

The Presidential Messages database contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina.

The Brazil Directory of Archives (DIBRARQ) brings together institutions and people who keep and promote access to the documents they hold.

Descriptions and links to Cuban Heritage Collection digital collections with digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection.

A digital archive that includes photographs, interviews, artifacts, and related materials to explore the experiences of tens of thousands of citizens who have left Cuba in small boats, homemade rafts and other unusual craft during the rafter crisis of 1994.

A product of broad international collaboration, these digitized documents from the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (AHPN) aim to facilitate scholarly and legal research into a vast cache of historical documentation. The discovery of the National Police Historical Archive in 2005 opened an extensive and timely resource for the study of Guatemalan history and human rights in the region, spanning a broad array of topics from Guatemala's armed conflict between 1960 and 1996 to the sexually transmitted disease experiments performed at the behest of the United States government in the 1940s. This site currently includes over 10 million scanned images of documents from the National Police Historical Archive. This digital archive mirrors and extends the physical archive that remains preserved in Guatemala as an important historical patrimony of the Guatemalan people.

The AGN is the house of historical memory of Mexico and the leading and advisory body in document management and archives administration. The AGN is the institution in charge of preserving and disseminating the documentary heritage of the nation that accounts for the historical development of our country and that provides evidence of the most momentous events that have marked our journey as a society. Their blog contains interesting stories and reprints of documents from the archives.

A freely available archive of primary documents from Mexico from the 15th Century to the present.

!Zapatistas! contains the full, English language text of every communique published (along with several that were not published, as well as many interviews, letters, and essays) from the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) from December 31, 1993 through June 12, 1994.

This collection of prints, posters, and mural stencils was created by a collective of young Mexican artists that formed during the state of Oaxaca's 2006 teachers strike. Themes include land rights, political prisoners, government corruption, political violence, police brutality, violence against women, art exhibitions, nationalization of agriculture and oil.

The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.

Collection of era photographs, documents, and oral history interviews (Digital Public Library of America)

The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.

Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement

The FBI investigation of Mr. Chavez and his organization based on allegations in 1965 that he and others within the organization had communist affiliations.

A broad collection consisting of books, magazines, maps, photos, drawings, etc.

The Delis Negrón digital archive captures the life and legacy of the Puerto Rican writer born in 1901, who was also director, editor, poet, writer, English professor and activist throughout his residency in south Texas and Mexico City during the twentieth century.

Puerto Rico was a colony of Spain for the period covered by most of the documents included in this collection (until the Spanish- American War of 1898). Under Spanish rule the civil courts of Puerto Rico fell under territorial jurisdiction. The island was divided into judicial districts corresponding to the major municipal areas (e.g., Aquadilla, Arecibo, Mayaguez). The collection consists of civil court case records from the Appellate Court “Corte de Primera Instancia” and some verbal trials "juicios verbales."

The Centro Library and Archives is a treasured place where researchers, academics, teachers, students, genealogists, filmmakers, and the community at large find primary (historical documents) and secondary sources about the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora. The Digital Collections provide access to photographs, documents, artifacts, art, maps, oral histories, moving image and audio clips, and other digitized or born digital material pertaining to stateside Puerto Ricans.

A database featuring photographs and documents that capture the history of Latino and Chicana/o people and culture in Southern California. Features the arts, labor and immigration.