This digital collection is comprised of selected digitized photographic negatives from the analog photographic archive. Digitization and description of this collection is ongoing. The analog collection consists of photonegatives documenting events and people in Southern California and photographic prints documenting events and people in Southern California, the U.S., and the world. The material originates from the Los Angeles Times newspaper and includes glass negatives (ca. 1918-1932), nitrate negatives (ca. 1925-45), and safety negatives (ca. 1935-present). Also includes prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Times Orange County and San Diego bureaus.
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 collection includes 3,300 audio recordings that document Mexican social movements and indigenous cultures through the voices of social activists, peasants, native (indigenous) Mexicans, musicians, traditional physicians, and guardians of traditional culture. The original field and studio recordings were collected throughout Mexico by Ricardo Montejano between 1970 and the present. These audio recordings document political and cultural realities of Mexican people.
The material encompasses three periods of Brazilian history: the onset of the military dictatorship (1964), democratization (the 1980s) and the deepening of Brazilian democracy (from the 1990s onwards). Digital access to this collection will enrich the understanding of the deterioration of democracy in present-day Brazil.
This collection includes Mau’s Swahili poetry and sermons that reflect on education, social justice, morality and piety. The collection also includes his memoirs which reflects his thirst for knowledge and his social commitment.
The Albanian National Film Archive (AQSHF) has digitized a curated selection of materials from the photographic and graphic art collections that includes costume and set design sketches, animation slides and production stills, allowing viewers to trace the journey of Albanian visual artists.
