The Archive of the Diocesan Curia of Nova Iguaçu (ACDNI) is the historic center of the progressive Catholic Church in Brazil throughout the military dictatorship. Throughout its lifetime, the archive has collected resources vital to the study of human rights, social movements, resistance to authoritarianism, and liberation theology. The collection is comprised of 475 linear feet (145 linear meters) of printed materials dating from 1948 to 2015. Most notably, the collection includes the institutional documentation of the Diocese as well as materials produced and received by Dom Adriano Mandarino Hypólito, the third bishop of Nova Iguaçu and one of the Church’s leaders in the struggle against the military dictatorship.
This digital collection will include 4,375 photographic prints from the archive, reflecting this important period in Ghanaian history with images of political figures and events, the processes of industrialization, and ceremonial and daily life in communities throughout Ghana following independence.
This collection includes digitized negatives created by field experts and professional photographers during research surveys between 1966 and 1990. The images document heritage buildings in various Indian states (Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, etc) that are decayed, damaged, or inaccessible. Also included are images of rare terracotta sculptures unearthed in excavations conducted at archaeological sites in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Bihar, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Karnataka, and a collection of miniature paintings commissioned by Mughal and Rajput patrons during the 16th to the 19th centuries in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
Nnamdi Azikiwe, (1904-1996) was the first president of independent Nigeria (1963–66). His personal papers include a draft of his memoirs, state papers from his presidency (1960-1966), and political material related to the Republic of Biafra. These collected papers are currently held in his family's home in Nsukka, Nigeria. This digital collection includes these materials as well as records from Azikiwe's two presidential campaigns in 1979 and 1983.
The Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara’s archive on the Aymara language and culture from the mid twentieth century to the present was collected in Bolivia, Chile and Peru. Materials include early pamphlets and newspapers, fieldwork recordings including speech and songs, fieldwork notes and transcriptions, documentation on Aymara regional variants, and teaching materials, some concerning intercultural bilingual education in Bolivia and elsewhere.
This digital collection consists of approximately 1,200 sound recordings and audio cassettes, including ballads, oral epics and storytelling recorded from 1980 to 2003. The recordings not only capture an array of unique performances and musical practices, but also the social connections that were made by performing.
The personal collection of Tomás Olivera documents the history of the Afro-Uruguayan population from 1960 to 2005. Digitization of this collection addresses the absence of Afro-Uruguayans from existing archives in Uruguay. Digitization was completed by the Archivo Sociedad en Movimientos.
The Fundacja Q Archive aims to counteract the vulnerability of ‘queer memory’ by preserving queer history, including evidence of Polish queer activism from the late 1980s until the present. This digital collection includes community heritage such as photographs, postcards, written personal memoirs, short-run printed materials, zines, personal documents, correspondence, posters as well as internal documents and official records.
This digital collection includes documents from the Interdiocese Project for the Recovery of the Historic Memory (REMHI): Never Again. This project was launched in 1994 by the Archbishop's Office for Human Rights (ODHA) of Guatemala and collected documents and testimonies related to the armed conflict in Guatemala (1960-1996). The materials include community reports, eyewitness accounts of massacres, newspaper clippings and additional press materials. These different kinds of documentation reflect a range of themes and topics, including the Communities of Population in Resistance (CPR), the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PAC), refugees and internal displacement, social violence of the internal armed conflict. The collection also includes photographs that show the first exhumations carried out in the early 1990s, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Monsignor Juan Gerardi Conedera, the Peace Process and Martyrs' Hall.