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Brazil

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Coleção de Literatura de Cordel

 Collection
Identifier: BENSON-MS Cordel
Abstract

Collection of literatura de cordel publications from Brazil.

Dates: 1900 - 2025

Jonathan Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-34
Abstract

This collection of documents, collected and compiled by Jonathan Brown, contains archival materials and previously classified correspondence from numerous institutional and presidential archives and libraries concerning Latin American history and politics.

Dates: 1949-2015; Majority of material found within 1958-1971

Jonathan Williams and Kisla Jiménez Collection of Cordel Woodblock Prints and Folhetos

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-60
Abstract

This collection consists of Cordéis and woodcut prints from Brazil and includes over twenty pamphlets and nearly one hundred woodcut prints from between the years 1986-2014. The works of illustrators such as José Francisco Borges and Abraão Batista are represented on both the Cordéis and the woodcut prints.

Dates: 1986-2014

Judith Bettelheim Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-41
Abstract

The professional papers of art historian Dr. Judith Bettelheim.

Dates: 1976-2013

Latin American Zines & Graphic Fiction Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-032
Abstract

Collection of comics and fanzines produced by artists and writers in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Dates: 1972-2025; Majority of material found within 2010-2025

Miscellaneous Printed Material at the Benson Latin American Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-046
Abstract

This artificial collection describes various individual publications or small groups of printed material that have been accessioned into the Benson Latin American Collection over the years.

Dates: 1922; 1932; 1955-1957; 1967; circa 1974-1997; 2001; 2005-2006; 2008-2009; 2012; 2018; 2025

Stephen Fierros Collection of Latin American Sheet Music

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-16
Abstract

Collection of 20th century sheet music from well-known composers of Argentina and Brazil. Other countries included are Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The majority of the collection is of music for piano solos.

Dates: 1897-2009

Terrence Kaufman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-40
Abstract This collection represents fifty years of linguistic research carried out by Terrence Kaufman, a linguistic anthropologist on languages of the Americas, especially Mexico and Guatemala. Materials include Kaufman’s compiled archival and library research and his vast amount of original field work, including his independent research on Huasteca Nahuatl, Huastec (Maya), and other Mayan languages of Mexico and Guatemala, and two large research projects he directed, the Proyecto Lingüístico...
Dates: 1960-2010

The Peoples of the Pirá-Paraná Collection of Stephen Hugh-Jones and Christine Hugh-Jones

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-30
Abstract

This collection consists of audiocassette and open reel audiotape recordings of the Tukanoan-speaking people of Southeastern Colombia.

Dates: 1968-1996

Tony Gleaton Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-38
Abstract

Photographs documenting the African Diaspora in Mexico, Central and South America by American photographer Tony Gleaton. Twenty-four of Gleaton's photographs were exhibited at LLILAS Benson as Tengo Casi 500 Años: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central and South America in February-April 2013.

Dates: 2013