Memory of the World Register – Latin America and the Caribbean
The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.[1] By creating a compendium of the world’s documentary heritage—manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archive holdings[2]—the program aims to tap on its networks of experts to exchange information and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials.[3] As of 2013, 193 documentary heritages have been included in the Register, among them recordings of folk music, ancient languages and phonetics, aged remnants of religious and secular manuscripts, collective lifetime works of renowned giants of literature, science and music, copies of landmark motion pictures and short films, and accounts documenting changes in the world’s political, economic and social stage. Of these, 33 properties were nominated by countries from the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
List by country/territory
Documentary heritage[A] | Country/Territory | Custodian(s), Location(s) | Year inscribed |
Reference |
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The West India Committee collection | Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Montserrat | Sidney Martin Library | 2015 | [4] |
Documentary heritage of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata | Argentina | National Archives, Buenos Aires | 1997 | [5] |
Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1976–1983 - Archives for Truth, Justice and Memory in the struggle against State Terrorism | Argentina |
|
2007 | [6] |
The Villa Ocampo Documentation Center | Argentina, United States |
|
2017 | [7] |
Farquharson’s Journal | Bahamas | Bahamas Archives, Nassau | 2009 | [8] |
Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834 | Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom |
|
2009 | [9] |
Documentary Heritage of Enslaved Peoples of the Caribbean | Barbados | Barbados Museum and Historical Society, St. Michael | 2003 | [10] |
Federal Archives Fonds | Barbados | University of West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown | 2009 | [11] |
The Nita Barrow Collection | Barbados | University of West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown | 2009 | [12] |
Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal | Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia, United Kingdom, United States |
|
2011 | [13] |
The West Indian Commission Papers | Barbados | Sidney Martin Library | 2015 | [14] |
An African Song or Chant from Barbados | Barbados, United Kingdom | Gloucestershire Archives | 2017 | [15] |
American Colonial Music: a sample of its documentary richness | Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
|
2007 | [16] |
Documentary Fonds of Royal Audiencia Court of La Plata (RALP) | Bolivia | Archivo Nacional de Bolivia | 2011 | [17] |
Cathedral of La Plata Church Music Manuscript Collection | Bolivia | Archivo Nacional de Bolivia | 2013 | [18] |
Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara: from the originals manuscripts of its adolescence and youth to the campaign Diary in Bolivia | Bolivia, Cuba | Che Guevara Studies Center | 2013 | [19] |
The Emperor's collection: foreign and Brazilian photography in the 19th century | Brazil | Fundação Biblioteca Nacional | 2003 | [20] |
Network of information and counter information on the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985) | Brazil | National Archives of Brazil | 2011 | [21] |
Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) archives | Brazil, Ghana, Netherlands, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, United Kingdom, United States |
|
2011 | [22] |
Architectural Archive of Oscar Niemeyer | Brazil | Fundação Oscar Niemeyer para Fins Culturais | 2013 | [23] |
Documents regarding the Emperor D. Pedro II’s journeys in Brazil and abroad | Brazil | Museu Imperial | 2013 | [24] |
Antonio Carlos Gomes | Brazil, Italy |
|
2015 | [25] |
Fundo Comitê de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos para os Países do Cone Sul (CLAMOR) | Brazil, Uruguay | Centro de Documentação e Informação Científica “Prof. Casemiro dos Reis Filho” | 2015 | [26] |
The War of the Triple Alliance Iconographic and cartographic presentations | Brazil, Uruguay |
|
2015 | [27] |
Collection Educator Paulo Freire | Brazil | Instituto Paulo Freire | 2017 | [28] |
Nise da Silveira Personal Archive | Brazil | Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente | 2017 | [29] |
Human Rights Archive | Chile | Chilean National Archive, Santiago | 2003 | [30] |
Jesuits of America | Chile | Chilean National Archive, Santiago | 2003 | [31] |
Collections of printed Chilean popular poetry: Lira popular | Chile |
|
2013 | [32] |
Negros y Esclavos Archives | Colombia | Archivo General de la Nación de Colombia, Bogotá | 2005 | [33] |
Abolition of the Army in Costa Rica | Costa Rica | Dirección General del Archivo Nacional, San José | 2017 | [34] |
Central American Court of Justice | Costa Rica | Dirección General del Archivo Nacional, San José | 2017 | [35] |
“José Martí Pérez” Fonds | Cuba | Marti Study Centre, Havana | 2005 | [36] |
Original Negative of the Noticiero ICAIC Lationamericano | Cuba | Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), Havana | 2009 | [37] |
Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC) | Curacao, Suriname, Netherlands | Zeeuws Archief | 2011 | [38] |
Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636–1670) | Dominican Republic | Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo | 2009 | [39] |
Documentary Heritage on the Resistance and struggle for Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1961 | Dominican Republic |
|
2009 | [40] |
The Gaze of the Other: Documentary heritage of the Salesian apostolic vicariate in the Ecuadorian Amazon 1890-1930 | Ecuador | Comunidad salesiana, Quito | 2015 | [41] |
Ignacio Ellacuría’s Documentary Fond: Historical Reality and Liberation | El Salvador | Curia provincial Jesuitas | 2017 | [42] |
The Florid Recollection, a historical speech and natural, material, military and political account of the Reyno of Guatemala | Guatemala | General Archive of Central America | 2017 | [43] |
Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers | Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji |
|
2011 | [44] |
Odette Mennesson Rigaud holdings | Haiti | Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit | 2017 | [45] |
Collection of Mexican Codices | Mexico | National Library of Anthropology and History, Mexico City | 1997 | [46] |
Codices from the Oaxaca Valley | Mexico | National Archives, Mexico City | 1997 | [47] |
Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz | Mexico | National Archives, Mexico City | 1997 | [48] |
Los olvidados | Mexico | Filmoteca de la UNAM, Mexico | 2003 | [49] |
Biblioteca Palafoxiana | Mexico | Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla | 2005 | [50] |
Colección de Lenguas Indigenas | Mexico | University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara | 2007 | [51] |
Collection of the Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico (16th to 20th Century) | Mexico | Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi Community of Mexico, Mexico City | 2009 | [52] |
Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs from the “Maps, drawings and illustrations” of the National Archives of Mexico | Mexico | National Archives, Mexico City | 2011 | [53] |
Old fonds of the historical archive at Colegio de Vizcaínas: women's education and support in the history of the world | Mexico | Historical Archive Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola, Vizcaínas “José María Basagoiti Noriega” | 2013 | [54] |
Judicial files concerning the birth of a right: the effective remedy as a contribution of the Mexican writ of amparo to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 | Mexico | Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación | 2015 | [55] |
The Archives of negatives, publications and documents of Manuel Álvarez Bravo | Mexico | Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, S.C | 2017 | [56] |
National Literacy Crusade | Nicaragua | Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America, Managua | 2007 | [57] |
Archives of Terror | Paraguay | Center of Documentation and Archives for the Defence of Human Rights (CDyA), Asunción | 2009 | [58] |
Peruvian and South American First Editions (1584-1619) | Peru | Biblioteca Nacional del Peru | 2013 | [59] |
Travelling Registry of the Conquistadors or “Becerro Book” | Peru | Archivo General de la Nación, Lima, | 2013 | [60] |
Sir William Arthur Lewis Papers | Saint Lucia | Seely G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton | 2009 | [61] |
Route/Root to Freedom: A case study of how enslaved Africans gained their freedom on the dual national island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin | Sint Maarten | Department of Records and Information Management, Philipsburg | 2017 | [62] |
The Derek Walcott Collection | Trinidad and Tobago | University of West Indies, St. Augustine | 1997 | [63] |
Eric Williams Memorial Collection | Trinidad and Tobago | University of West Indies, St. Augustine | 1999 | [64] |
The C.L.R. James Collection | Trinidad and Tobago | University of West Indies, St. Augustine | 2005 | [65] |
Constantine Collection | Trinidad and Tobago | National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Port of Spain | 2011 | [66] |
Original records of Carlos Gardel - Horacio Loriente Collection (1913–1935) | Uruguay | Archivo General de la Nación, Montevideo | 2003 | [67] |
General Archive of the Nation - Writings of The Liberator Simón Bolívar | Venezuela | National Archives, Caracas | 1997 | [68] |
Collection of Latin American photographs of the 19th Century | Venezuela | National Library, Caracas | 1997 | [69] |
Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda’s Archives | Venezuela | Academia Nacional de La Historia, Caracas | 2007 | [70] |
Notes
^ A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.
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- "Documentary Heritage of Enslaved Peoples of the Caribbean". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Archived from the original on 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
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- "Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "The West Indian Commission Papers". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "An African Song or Chant from Barbados". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "American Colonial Music: a sample of its documentary richness | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Documentary Fonds of Royal Audiencia Court of La Plata (RALP)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Cathedral of La Plata Church Music Manuscript Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Documentary Collection "Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara: from the originals manuscripts of its adolescence and youth to the campaign Diary in Bolivia"". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "The Emperor's collection: foreign and Brazilian photography in the XIX century | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Network of information and counter information on the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) Archives | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Architectural Archive of Oscar Niemeyer". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Documents regarding the Emperor D. Pedro II's journeys in Brazil and abroad". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Antonio Carlos Gomes". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
- "Fundo Comitê de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos para os Países do Cone Sul (CLAMOR)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "The War of the Triple Alliance Iconographic and cartographic presentations". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Collection Educator Paulo Freire". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Nise da Silveira Personal Archive". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Human Rights Archive of Chile | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Jesuits of America | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Collections of printed Chilean popular poetry: Lira popular". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Negros y Esclavos Archives | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Abolition of the Army in Costa Rica". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Central American Court of Justice". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ""José Martí Pérez" Fonds | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Original Negative of the Noticiero ICAIC Lationamericano | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636-1670) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Documentary Heritage on the Resistance and Struggle for Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1961 | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "The Gaze of the Other: Documentary heritage of the Salesian apostolic vicariate in the Ecuadorian Amazon 1890-1930". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Ignacio Ellacuría's Documentary Fond: Historical Reality and Liberation". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "The Florid Recollection, a historical speech and natural, material, military and political account of the Reyno of Guatemala". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Odette Mennesson Rigaud holdings". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Collection of Mexican Codices | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Codices from the Oaxaca Valley | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Los olvidados | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Biblioteca Palafoxiana | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Colección de Lenguas Indigenas | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Collection of the Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico (16th to 20th Century) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs from the "Maps, drawings and illustrations" of the National Archives of Mexico". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Old fonds of the historical archive at Colegio de Vizcaínas: women's education and support in the history of the world". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Judicial files concerning the birth of a right: the effective remedy as a contribution of the Mexican writ of amparo to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "The Archives of negatives, publications and documents of Manuel Álvarez Bravo". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "National Literacy Crusade | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Archives of Terror | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Peruvian and South American First Editions (1584-1619)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Travelling Registry of the Conquistadors or "Becerro Book"". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Sir William Arthur Lewis Papers | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Route/Root to Freedom: A case study of how enslaved Africans gained their freedom on the dual national island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "The Derek Walcott Collection | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "The Eric Williams Collection | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "The C.L.R. James Collection | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Constantine Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Original records of Carlos Gardel – Horacio Loriente Collection (1913-1935) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "General Archive of the Nation - Writings of The Liberator Simón Bolívar | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Collection of Latin American photographs of the 19th Century | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- "Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda's Archives | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.