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.
The archive of the Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP) includes flyers and posters that document the CCP's organization, its national congresses, efforts to incorporate women's groups, correspondence with foreign human rights organizations and political parties. The collection also includes a collection of denunciations by rural people and details from the organization’s support of indigenous communities' efforts to defend their land and autonomy. The archive provides insight into the history of Peru in the 20th Century, including the growth of the radical left, organization of major strikes, and the impact of Shining Path on peasant and indigenous peoples.
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.
This digital collection focuses on photographs from multiple collections held at the Archivo Histórico de Tijuana, including materials from the Colección Guadalupe Kirarte Domínguez. Images in the collection document people, buildings, political activism and public events as well as the City’s administrative office.
James Arkatov was born in 1920 in Odessa, Russia and raised in San Francisco, where his father, Alexander Arkatov, owned a photography salon. In 1938, he was invited by Fritz Feiner to join the Pittsburgh Symphony. Later, he joined the San Francisco Symphony with Pierre Monteux, and went on to be principal cellist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Fabien Sevitzky. Arkatov returned to California in 1946 as a studio musician and was later appointed principal cellist of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1956, he married Salome Ramras Arkatov.
In 1968, he founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) and was its first principal cellist. According to LACO: "The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the recording industry’s most gifted musicians. The Orchestra’s artistic founder, cellist James Arkatov, envisioned an ensemble that would allow these conservatory-trained players to balance studio work and teaching with pure artistic collaboration at the highest level."
Arkatov began photographing musicians when he was with the Pittsburgh Symphony. In 1990, he published his first book of photography, Masters of Music: Great Artists at Work. In 1998, he published his second book, Artists: The Creative Personality.
In May 2015, the Arkatovs donated James' photographs of world music performers to the Ethnomusicology Archive. Many of these photos highlight UCLA Ethnomusicology's famous World Music Ensembles. https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/ensembles/ James Arkatov died May 11, 2019 at age 98.
