UCSB Special Collections: Research: Latin American Resources

Latin American Resources

The Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a wide range of ethnographic, historical, literary, music, and other resources relating to Latin America, including books, serials, pamphlets, newspapers, letters, diaries, documents, photographs, and sound recordings.

Additional significant resources are found in other areas of the the UCSB University Libraries. For details, consult Research in Latin American and Iberian Studies, the library handout Latin American & Iberian Literature, and Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog. The Chicano, Latino, Hispano section of the Voice of the Shuttle website also provides useful links to relevant resources at other institutions.

The following list describes some of the more significant Special Collections holdings and gives representative examples.

Manuscript/Primary Resources:

Argentina Photograph Collection, ca. 1920s-1960s. (Bernath Mss 121).
Ashton Family World Travel Photograph Collection, 1892-1913. 2500+ b/w photographs in 53 Kodak albums, from numerous trips to far flung parts of the world, including India and Ceylon, Europe, West Indies, Latin America, the Middle East, Egypt, and the U.S. (Bernath Mss 115).
Bainton[Louis H.] Rio de Janeiro / Buenos Aires Photograph Collection, ca. 1905-1924. Two albums, loose photos, and a few letters. (Bernath Mss 114)
Brazil to England and Germany Photograph and Postcard Album, 1937. More than 40 snapshots and 50 postcards, captions in English, apparently from a British expatriate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who traveled to Brazil, then England (including Oxford) and Germany. (Bernath Mss 129).
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA). CEMA, part of UCSB Special Collections, contains more than 40 collections pertaining to Chicanos/Latinos in California, including materials relating to artists, authors, organizations, and political activists. For further details about the collections, go to the CEMA webpage at: (http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/listguides.html).
[California Mexican Government Document]. One printed document, 4 pp., establishing the first official medical practice in California. Mexico, 6 Aug. 1836. (Wyles SC 936). [California Mexican Government Document ]. Rosa, D[on] Luis de la. One printed decree, 4 pp., originating in the Ministry of Finance, detailing the articles of tax collection and distribution. Mexico [City], 6 Aug. 1845. (Wyles SC 937).
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection, 1950-1991 [bulk dates 1961-1987]. Records of an internationally renowned Santa Barbara think tank, including papers presented at CSDI-sponsored conferences and meetings on issues such as social, political, and economic change; urbanization and development; U.S. imperialism; education; journalism and the mass media; and the role of women in Latin America. (Mss 18).
Colombian Protestant Mission Photographs, 1929. 22 b/w snapshots, with inscriptions, mainly group photos, missionary families, and street scenes, most in or around Cali, Colombia. (Wyles SC 986).
Cuba / Haiti Photograph Album, ca. late 1920s. 109 b/w prints, most with captions in English, apparently compiled by an American sailor attached to the USS Wright on its visits to Cuba and Haiti during the late 1920s. Includes a number of photos of the Wright, its planes, and its officers and crew, as well as views of other naval vessels, some taken from the air. A few photos show scenes at Guantanamo Bay (including one of a baseball game). (Bernath Mss 40).
Cuban Resort Photograph Album, 1936. (Bernath Mss 107).
Cuba [Havana] Photographs, 1925. (Wyles Mss 111).
Curletti [Lauro A.] Collection, ca. 1912-1969. Scrapbook, mostly photos, from Peru. (Mss 172).
De Mille [Richard] Collection, 1959-1979. Mainly material relating to de Mille's research and writings on Carlos Castaneda. (Mss 20).
Dellenbaugh [Frederick S.] Cruise Journal, 1906. Trip to West Indies, Venezuela, and Florida. (Wyles SC 983).
Dozer [Donald Marquand] Papers, ca. 1939-1975 [bulk 1940s]. Collection of a Latin American specialist in the DRA and a UCSB faculty member. Includes typescript of book Latin America: An Interpretative History, files from Dozer’s government service in the 1940s, and newspaper clippings (mostly about Argentina). (Bernath Mss 6).
Driscoll [Thomas] Collection, 1836-1953 [bulk dates 1890-1918]. Pamphlets, intelligence reports, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and some 19^th century photographs of Brazil, from an officer in the U.S. Army's 91st Division during and after World War I. (Bernath Mss 7).
Flagg [J. Foster] Papers, late 1800s – early 1900s. Papers of an engineer and astronomer, who spent his last years in Santa Barbara. Includes three late 19^th-early 20^th century photo albums of Latin America (mainly Peru) and the West Indies. (Mss 32).
Franck [Harry Alverson] Latin America / China Travel Collection, ca. 1911-1923. (Wyles SC 975).
Gray [Ethel C.] California, Canal Zone, Cuba Photograph Album, 1935. Approx. 100 pages, recording Gray’s trip from NYC to the western U.S., including the Canal Zone and Cuba. Includes photographs, postcards, railroad timetables, hotel brochures, menus, and other ephemera. (Bernath Mss 46).
Guantanamo Bay Collection, ca. 1959-1980s. Pamphlets, newsletters, blueprints, tracts, and other materials, mainly about the U.S. Naval Base (GTMO), including items issued by the U.S. and Cuban governments. (Bernath Mss 96).
Guerrero, Lalo. Photographs, videos, correspondence, phonograph records, audio-cassettes and scrapbooks of singer, musician, and composer Guerrero, who wrote "Canción Mexicana," the unofficial Mexican National Anthem. (CEMA 24).
[Haiti]. One French military document (ADS), count of men (98) and rations (bread, fresh beef, pork, and rum), Port au Prince [Haiti], June 1795. (SC 810).
Hathaway [Charles Montgomery, Jr.] Papers, 1912-1939.Papers of an American academic and diplomat, who served in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere. (Bernath Mss 9).
Hiss [Philip Hanson] Photograph Collection, ca. early 1940s. 120+ b/w professional photographs of people and scenes in Bali , Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Eustatius, St. Martin, Saba, and Surinam. Photos from this collection appear in Hiss’ books, Bali (1941) and Netherlands America: The Dutch Territories in the West (1943). (Bernath Mss 76).
Honduras Photograph Album, ca. 1920-1925. 200+ b/w photographs of cities (San Pedro Sala, Choloma, Truxillo, Tela, Ornoa, Puerto Cortes, and La Lima), buildings, churches, haciendas, rural areas, coastal shipping facilities, railroads, bridges, mills, and sugar factories. Includes images of U.S. businessmen and Honduran workers, some related to the United Fruit Company and Cayarmel Fruit Company; many showing impact of U.S. investment on Honduras in the early 1920s. (Bernath Mss 91).
Hussey [Roland D.] Collection, 1943-1946. Files acquired with Hussey’s book collection, including research and analysis reports from the Office of Strategic Services, mainly relating to the Sinarquista Movement in Mexico during World War II. (Bernath Mss 16).
Keller Latin America Diary, 1895. Manuscript pocket diary of U.S. citizen [?] Keller,traveling by steamship, with numerous stops at ports from Valparaiso, Chile, to Panama and Colon, recording impressions of shipboard life, fellow passengers, sights and customs observed along the way, sometimes interspersed with prejudicial comments. (SC 852).
Mexican Manuscripts Collection, 1776-1837. Documents relating to institutions and property in the State of Puebla, Mexico. (Bernath Mss 13).
Mexican Revolution / U.S. Navy Picture Postcard Collectio, ca. 1915. Ten b/w postcards documenting U.S. Navy actions, mainly of the U.S.S. Maryland along the west coast of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, including Matazlan and Tuxedina Bay, and several photos of torpedoes being fired at Mexican ships. (Wyles SC 948).
Mitchell [John J.] Collection, ca. 1828-1945. Includes registrations of cattle brands for San Vicente, in Baja California, 1828-1836. (Mss 83).
Monaghan [Jay] Collection, ca. 1840s-1980 [bulk dates 1930s-1970s]. Includes files re Lincoln and American West scholar Monaghan’s book, Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849. (Wyles Mss 20).
Nistal-Moret [Benjamin] Collection, ca. 1829-1979, 1993. Biographical material and research files re Nistal-Moret’s Esclavos Profugos y Cimarrones, Puerto Rico, 1770-1870, including documents from Puerto Rico, primarily pertaining to identification and registration of slaves and the apprehension of fugitives. (Wyles Mss 78).
Panama and Southwest U.S. Photograph Collection, ca. early 1900s. 31 b/w images, including snapshots of Canal Zone, 1909; unidentified mounted albumen prints of apparently a Southwest town and inhabitants (signs are in English); and two of a boy on horseback. (Wyles Mss 132).
Panama Canal Photographs. Two panoramic b/w photos. (Wyles SC 958; Wyles SC 960).
Panama Canal Picture Postcard Collection, ca. 1908-1910. 77 picture postcards, most in color with printed captions. (Wyles SC 627).
Panama Canal/ Southwest U.S. / Europe Photograph Album, 1926. 250+ b/w snapshots, apparently of a family’s 1926 travels, including the Panama Canal (ships and locks). (Bernath 71).
[Panama Canal]. U.S.S. Sharon Victory in the Pacific Photograph Album, 1945-1946. Includes post-WWII photos of Manila (showing war damage), Shanghai, and Panama Canal. (Bernath Mss 57).
Payne [Owen Street] Papers, ca. 1838-1943. Essays by Payne, primarily concerning the rise of Nazi Germany, World War II, Argentina and other parts of Latin America. (Bernath Mss 14).
Peruvian Political Printed Ephemera Collection, ca. 1912-1996. Newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, flyers, broadsides. (Bernath Mss 116).
Peterson [John D.] Papers, 1960s. Correspondence, interviews, newspapers and other primary resource materials re Peterson’s dissertation research in Brazilian history. (Bernath Mss 15).
Powell [Philip W.] Collection, ca. 1500s-1980. Correspondence, research files, and writings of a UCSB faculty member and Latin American specialist. Includes copies of late16th – early 17^th century documents from Spanish and Latin American archives. (FACP 18).
Siddell [Robert] Collection, ca. 1903-1922. Includes more than 200 picture postcards from a 1909 trip to South America (Guyana – then British, Dutch, and French Guiana) and the West Indies (Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Martinique, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Virgin Islands – then the Danish West Indies), as well as other places. (Mss 110).
South American Photograph Album, 1909. (Bernath Mss 117).
Spanish-American War in Cuba Photographs, ca. 1899. 11 mounted b/w photographs. (Wyles SC 977).
Spanish American War Photograph Collection, ca. 1898-1901. 20 stereoviews and cabinet cards, mainly Cuba and Philippines. (Wyles Mss 131)
Stereoscopic Views, ca. 1877-1913. About 600 views from more than 30 countries, including Mexico, and subjects such as the Spanish American War. (Mss 121).
Stevenson, Fernald & Co. Cuban Correspondence, 1884. Ten letters (ALS) from Cuban firms to Stevenson, re sugar and molasses trade. Bernath Collection. (Wyles SC 968).
Storke [Charles A., II] Collection, ca. 1911-1990s. Includes financial material and photographs of a Santa Barbara newspaperman and businessman who spent several years in Mexico City around the 1950s-1960s. (SBHC Mss 38).
Stuart [Granville] Uruguay Photographs, 1894-1896. 8 b/w albumen cabinet size and larger photographs assembled by Montana cattleman Granville Stuart while he was ambassador to Uruguay. Includes images of Uruguayan officers, Montivideo scenes, and the U.S.S. iron warship “Newark”, moored off Montivideo in 1894. (Wyles SC 987).
Thomas [Norman] Photograph Collection, 1948-1964 [bulk 1958-1964]. Several thousand b/w prints and negatives, taken by photojournalist Norman Thomas, who was based in New Orleans in the late 1950s to early 1960s. The largest number of photos are from Mexico, with British Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Panama also represented. Included are many images of people in everyday life, street and market scenes, factories, events and parades, and overhead views of villages and cities. (Bernath Mss 97).
Touton [Rush D.] Tobacco Collection, ca. 1924-1981 [bulk dates 1930-1960]. Includes material on tobacco industry in Puerto Rico and Sumatra; many photographs, mainly b/w and in U.S. (Bernath Mss 112).
Tremaine [Katharine W.] Collection, ca. 1937-1997. Papers of a Montecito philanthropist, who donated funds to a number of causes with a Latin American focus in the 1980s and 1990s, including groups such as the Central American Refugee Network (CARNET – Washington, DC), Comite de Unidad Campesina [CAC] Guatemala (Philadelphia, PA), Instituto Biodinamico (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Instituto Puertorriqueño de Derechos Civiles (Rio Piedras, PR), and the Nicaraguan Association of Biologists and Ecologists (Managua, Nicaragua). The grantee files include information about the work of those groups. (SBHC Mss 43).
United States Squadron in the Pacific Ocean, Quarterly Return of Receipts, 1837-1838. One bound volume, with figures for food, clothing, and miscellaneous stores such as anchors and cables, while at Callao Castle [Peru] and Valparaiso [Argentina]. (Wyles Mss 68).
[Uruguay]. Carte de Visite Album, 1869. Family portraits and portraits of people in circus or theatrical costumes. (PA SC 10).
U. S. Navy in Nicaragua and Panama Photograph Album, ca. 1930. (Bernath Mss 130).Vera Cruz, Mexico Photograph Collection, 1914. 30 b/w photos of the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 1914, including picture postcards and panoramas, with images of U.S. troops, ships and sailors, Vera Cruz Harbor, Vera Cruz street scenes and prisoners. (Bernath Mss 32).
West Indies Photograph Album, 1937. 33 b/w photos of street scenes and countryside in Martinique, Barbados, St. Georges (Grenada), Caracas (Venezuela), Curacao, Cartagena (Colombia), Panama, Trinidad, and St. Thomas (Virgin Islands). (SC 837).
Wharton [Robert S.] Brazilian Correspondence, 1868. One lengthy letter, with sketches, from a former Civil War Union officer and traveler, describing life among Confederate expatriates who have settled in remote sections of the Brazilian countryside. (Wyles SC 964).
Wilson [W. G.] South America Cruise Photograph Album, 1930. (Bernath Mss 128).
Winslow [Charles F.] Photograph Collection, 1860s-1870s. 29 cartes de visite, with inscriptions, of Dr. Charles F. Winslow and others, many from Lima, Peru. (Wyles SC 985).

Printed Materials:

Special Collections’ printed Latin America holdings include books, diaries, journals, serials, government reports, maps, pamphlets, flyers, and other printed material relating to a wide range of topics, countries, and time periods. These are cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog. The following categories include some representative examples from the collection.

Books, Book Arts, and Printing in Latin America. Works on printing and papermaking, as well as fine and small press items. Also, limited editions by Latin American book artists. Mainly from the Skofield Printers Collection.
Grases, Pedro. Historia de la imprenta en Venezuela has el fin de la Primera Republica, 1812 (1967).
Iguíniz, Juan Bautista. La imprenta en la Nueva España (1938).
Johnson, Julie Greer. The Book in the Americas: The Role of Books and Printing in the
Development of Culture and Society in Colonial Latin America (1988).
McMurtrie, Douglas C. A Preliminary Check List of Published Materials relating to the History of Printing in Latin America (1942).
Mexico. Congreso. Biblioteca. Documentos para la historia de la tipografia Americana (1936).
Rocket Four. Making Artist Books Today … [includes section on Arte Dos Grafico, Bogota, Colombia] (1999).
Szewczyk, David M. 39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book (1989).
Thompson, Lawrence Sidney. Printing in Colonial Spanish America (1962).
Von Hagen. The Aztec and Maya Papermakers (1944).
Wagner, Henry Raup. Sixteenth-century Mexican Imprints (1925).
Woodbridge, Hensley Charles. Printing in Colonial Spanish America (1976).
Wroth, Lawrence C. Some Reflections on the Book Arts in Early Mexico (1945).
Historical and Ethnographic Material. Diaries, essays, government reports, histories, journals, speeches, travelers’ accounts, and other materials, including contemporaneous accounts, as well as later works.

California (early period under Spanish and Mexican control, to 1846; mainly later examinations of the era).
Atherton, Faxon Dean. The California Diary …1836-1839 (1964).
Bandini, José. A Description of California in 1828 (1951).
Chapman, Charles Edward. A History of California: The Spanish Period (1939).
Cowan, Robert Ernest. The Spanish Press of California, 1833-1845 (1931).
Documentary Evidence for the Spanish Missions of Alta California (1991).
Figueroa, José. The Manifesto [to Mexican Republic] (1855).
Hutchinson, Cecil Alan. Frontier Settlement in Mexican California … (1969).
Jackson, Robert H. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization … (1995).
Philips, George Harwood. Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849 (1993).
Portillo, Alvaro del. Descubrimientos y exploraciones en las costas de California (1947).
Rowland, Leon. Los Fundadores …the First Families of California … (1951).
Santos, Robert L. A Bibliography of Early California and Neighboring Territory through 1846… (1992, 2002).
Wagner, Henry Raup. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Discoverer of the Coast of California (1941).
Whytock, Emily. Franciscan Missions of California (1969).

Colonial Spanish/Portuguese America (16^th-early 19^th centuries)

Acosta, José de. Historia natural y moral de las Indias… (1792).
Breckenridge, H. M. Voyage to Buenos Ayres… (1820).
Brito, João Rodrigues de. Cartas economico-politicas sobre a agricultura, e commercio da Bahia… (1821).
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de. The History of Paraguay… (1769).
Cortés, Hernán. Historia de Nueva-España… (1770).
Frézier, Amédée François. A Voyage to the South-Sea, and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru (1717).
Gage, Thomas. A Survey of the Spanish-West-Indies (1702).
Hall, Basil. Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico… (1824).
Koster, Henry. Travels in Brazil (1817).
Señor. Don Tomas de Ochagavia, agente de negocios en esta Corte y poderaviente de D. Diego Gutierrez de los Rios … [Cartagena, Colombia history] (1700)
Skinner, Joseph. The Present State of Peru… (1805).
Solís, Antonio de. Historia de la conquista de Mexico (1691).
Southey, Robert. History of Brazil (1810).
Stevenson, William Bennet. Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years Residence in South America (1829).
Tamayo de Vargas, Tomás. Restauracion de la ciudad del Salvador…Brasil (1628).
Ulloa, Antonio. A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces… (1806).
Vega, Garcilaso de la. The Royal Commentaries of Peru… (1688).
Wafer, Lionel. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America…(1704).
Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. History of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres (1807).

Mesoamerican Indigenous Cultures. Ethnographic, historical, linguistic, and other material, some contemporaneous and other more recent examinations. Early histories and travelers’ accounts also oftentimes include relevant information.

Codices - Facsimile editions of pre-Columbian manuscript volumes held in repositories around the work, including the multi-volume Codices Mexicanos.
Coe, Michael D. The Maya Scribe and His World (1973).
Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l’Amerique…avec un vocabulaire Caraibe (1665).

Nineteenth-Twentieth Century Latin America (contemporaneous and more recent first-hand accounts and examination of historical, economic, political, and social developments in Latin American countries, and U.S. foreign policy; most from Bernath and Wyles collections)

Dosal, Paul J. Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 (1993).
Dunn, Ballard S. Brazil, the Home for Southerners (1866).
Immerman, Richard H. The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention (1982).
Jamison, James Carson. With Walker in Nicaragua (1909).
Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Correspondencia diplomatica relativa a las invasions del territorio mexicano (1878).
Page, Thomas Jefferson. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay… (1859).
Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Conquest of Peru: with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas (1847).
Restrepo, José Manuel. Historia de la revolución de la República de Colombia (1827).
Ryckman, Lucile Damon. Paid in Full: The Story of Harold Ryckman, Missionary Pioneer to Paraguay and Brazil (1979).
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants… (1868).
Smyth, William. Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon… (1836)
Wall, Bernhardt. Following Franklin D. Roosevelt to Argentina in 1936 (1937).
Wise, Henry Augustus. Los Gringos: An Inside View of Mexico and California with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia (1850)

Panama Canal (including early accounts of the Isthmus and ways of crossing it; most from the Wyles Collection).

Fabens, Joseph W. A Story of Life on the Isthmus (1853).
Griswold, C. D. The Isthmus of Panama, and What I Saw There (1852).
Hand Sketches of the Panama-Canal (1910?).
Hastead, Murat. Pictorial History of America’s New Possessions: The Isthmian Canals… (1899).
Kimball, William Wirt. Special Intelligence Report on the Progress of the Work on the Panama Canal during the Year 1885 (1886).
Letts, John M. A Pictorial View of California: Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes (1853).
Otis, F. N. Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad (1862).
The Panama Canal: The World’s Greatest Engineering Feat (19??).
Pim, Bedford. The Gate of the Pacific (1863).
Tomes, Robert. Panama in 1855: an Account of the Panama Rail-road… (1855).

Spanish-American War (mainly from the U.S. perspective; most from the Wyles Collection).

California Club. War Poems … (1898).
Cartoons of the War of 1898 with Spain (1898).
Davis, Richard Harding. Cuba in War Time [illustrated by Frederic Remington], (1897).
Johnson, Edward Augustus. History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War (1899).
Keeler, Frank. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1898: The Journal of Frank Keeler (1967?).
Mendoza y Vizcaino, Enrique. Historia de la Guerra Hispano-Americana (1898).
Photographic History of the Spanish-American War (1898).
Russell, Henry B. An Illustrated History of Our War with Spain (1898).
Stratemeyer, Edward. A Young Volunteer in Cuba… (1898).
Watterson, Henry. History of the Spanish-American War, Embracing a Complete Review of Our Relations with Spain (1898).
White, Trumbull. Our War with Spain for Cuba’s Freedom… (1898).
Witherbee, Sidney A. Spanish-American War Songs: A Complete Collection of Newspaper Verse… (1898).

U.S. -Mexican War (mainly items from the U.S. perspective; most from the Wyles Collection)

Frost, John. Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican War… (1849).
Parker, Theodore. A Sermon of War… (1846).
Porter, Charles T. Review of the Mexican War, Embracing the Causes of the War, the Responsibility of its Commencement, the Purposes of the American Government in Its Prosecution, Its Benefits and Its Evils (1849).
Scribner, Benjamin Franklin. Camp Life of a Volunteer (1847).
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs. Our Army on the Rio Grande… (1846).
United States. Navy Dept. Reports and Despatches Exhibiting the Operations of the United States Naval Forces, during the War with Mexico (1848?).
United States. President (Polk). Messages of the President of the United States, with the Correspondence, therewith Communicated, between the Secretary of War and Other Officers of the Government, on the Subject of the Mexican War (1848).
United States. War Dept. Report of the Secretary of War: Showing the Number of Troops in the Service of the United States in Mexico since the Commencement of the War… (1848).
Willard, Emma. Last Leaves of American History: Comprising Histories of the Mexican War and California (1849).
Literature. First, signed, limited, and other rare editions of Latin American novelists, poets, and essayists such as Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Garbriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, and José Maria Vargas Vila. Also, journals and newspapers, as well as collections of 19^th century Mexican almanacs and Colombian novels.

Maps and Atlases. Early examples, some loose or disbound and cataloged individually, but many others contained within histories, travelers’ accounts, and other printed works. Also, works about cartography and cartographers. Examples include:
Battles of Mexico [map] (1848).
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. [Ten maps from v.2 of the author’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum – incl. Peru, Paraguay, Chile], 1648.
Central America II: Including Texas, California, and the Northern States of Mexico (1842).
Johnson’s Central America [map] (1867?).
Lemaire, Jacques. Freti Magellanici [Tierra del Fuego] (1622?).
Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the West Indies, with Central America; Showing All the Routes to California… (1854).
[United States and Northern Mexico Map showing Finished, Unfinished, and Proposed Railways] (1830?).
Religion. Mainly mid to latter 20^th century books, serials, pamphlets, and some organization files, largely from Mexico, Peru, and the Caribbean, with items relating to subjects such as Maachu Pichu, Virgin of Guadelupe, and Voodoo. Most of the material is from the American Religions Collection, which documents non-mainstream religious groups and movements.

Sound Recordings:

Hundreds of 78 rpm recordings of early-mid 20^th century Latin American music, much of it Mexican, with some Cuban and other, including works by Miguel Aceves Mejia, Manuel S. Acuña, Ramón Armengod, Manuelita Arriola, Jacinto Capella, Xavier Cugat, Noe Fajardo, Galantes, Carlos Gardel, Adelina Garcia, Eva Garza, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Guizar, Hotel Nacional (Havana) Orquesta, José Alfredo Jiménez, José Mardones, Ramon Márquez, Noro Morales, Jorge Negrete, Panchos, Perez Prado, Lucha Reyes, Elvira Rios, Tito Rodgriguez, Fernando Rosas, Tecolines, Tres Ases, Trio Calaveras, and Pedro Vargas. Also works such as: Indian Music of Mexico (principally instrumentalists of the Zapotec, Otomi, Yaqui, Tlaxcalan, and Maya, 1940s).

Latin American Resources

Manuscript/Primary Resources:

Printed Materials:

Panama Canal (including early accounts of the Isthmus and ways of crossing it; most from the Wyles Collection).

Spanish-American War (mainly from the U.S. perspective; most from the Wyles Collection).

U.S. -Mexican War (mainly items from the U.S. perspective; most from the Wyles Collection)

Sound Recordings: