Library Guides: Art &amp; Architecture: Latin America &amp; the Caribbean: Find Primary Sources Online

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This section includes select databases, portals and websites for discovering primary sources online.

SALALM Digital Primary Resources
A database of open access digitized collections of primary sources for Latin American and Caribbean history. Searchable by country, format, and genre. Expand the Tablaeu window for easier navigation:

Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano (BDPI)
A gateway to digitized books, manuscripts, images, musical scores, newspapers, magazines, and sound recordings from the national libraries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay. Allows you to search all the libraries' collections at once and then links you out to that library's webpage.
LANIC - Art
The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas at Austin was an important directory of resources for Latin America Studies research. While still useful, please note these pages have not been updated since 2015.
LANIC - Architecture
The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas at Austin was an important directory of resources for Latin America Studies research. While still useful, please note these pages have not been updated since 2015.

ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art
This digital archive includes primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. Countries featured: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Latino USA.
posts (MoMA)
The Museum of Modern Art's online portal devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. It includes interviews with artists, curators and historiographical essays.
Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive
Aims to preserve for researchers the personal and official websites belonging to notable contemporary Latin American and Caribbean artists, artists’ collectives, artists’ groups, galleries, museums, and related entities in order to assure the continuing availability of the important content they contain.

Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas
Digitizations of magazines and periodicals representing key moments in the development of cultural journalism in Argentina, accompanied by indices and brief critical essays and articles.
Argentine Theater & Literary Periodicals
This unique collection housed at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin) is dedicated to a type of small-format periodical, containing plays, short novels and other literary texts, which used to be very popular in the Río de la Plata region during the first half of the 20th century. Besides the well-known and widely-published titles La novela semanal (1917-54), La escena (1918-33) and Bambalinas (1918-34), the collection includes numerous periodicals with a more limited circulation.

Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira
This digital archive provides access to nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers housed at the National Library in Brazil, such as "Correio Braziliense," "Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro," "Diário Carioca," and "Correio da Manhã"
Revista Acrópole
The Architecture and Urban Studies Faculty at the University of São Paulo digitized the complete run of the architecture magazine Acrópole, which was published in São Paulo between 1938 and 1971.

Hermeroteca Digital Nacional de Mexico
Portal to the Digital Newspaper Collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico. Contains a searchable database of millions of pages of digitised newspapers from the early 18th to the early 20th century
Género en México: Fuentes para su historia
Compilation of 19th- and 20th-century digital primary sources for the study of gender in México, including the magazines El álbum de la mujer and Año internacional de la mujer.
Prensa Obrera Collection
Collection of Mexican penny press publications dating from the early 20th century at the University of Texas at Austin. A rich font of political news and commentary. Of particular interest are political cartoons and drawings, including dozens by José Guadalupe Posada.

Colección Digital Puertorriqueña - Revistas
Selection of late 19th- and early 20th-century Puerto Rican periodicals, including women's literary magazines.

Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay
Archive of Uruguayan newspapers from 1800 to 1999. Searchable by title and chronology.

Palante
Palante (1970 - 1976) was a bilingual newspaper published by the Young Lords Party in New York City. Palante focused on the Puerto Rican independence movement, the oppression of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in the United States, and global struggles for liberation.
Independent Voices
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes Latino series.

Chicago Latino/a Artists Studies Project
Thirty-nine interviews conducted by Marc Zimmerman and members of the Chicago Latino/a Artists Studies Project (CLASP) with Latino artists in the Chicago, Illinois area for the Latin American Cultural Activities and Studies Arena (LACASA) in Chicago, Illinois and supporting interviews and supporting documentation and images (2004-2017).
El Museo del Barrio
New York’s leading Latino cultural institution, welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American cultures. Their richness is represented in El Museo’s wide-ranging collections and exhibitions, complemented by film, literary, visual and performing arts series, cultural celebrations, and educational programs.
Frank Espada Photographs
Selections from Frank Espada’s Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project (1979-1981).
Latino Cultures in the US (Google Arts and Culture)
Digital collections of Latino art, culture, and history. A collaboration between Google and about 50 institutions (Smithsonian Latino Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, California State Archives, Miami Dade College, and more). The collection features more than 2,500 pieces of art through 90 exhibits.

Art Sales Catalogues Online This link opens in a new window
Offers easy access to scanned historical art sales catalogues for the period 1600 to 1900. Lugt's Répertoire online database has been included in this publication and serves as the "entrance gate" to the catalogues.