Spanish and Latin American literature: Microforms

The Audio/Visual Center houses microform material, such as microfilm, and fiche. The A/V Center also has microfilm and fiche readers, including a digital Canon reader. These resources are valuable and unique for research, and are not to be overlooked  in any field of study.

Collections of particular interest in Spanish Studies

The Spanish Civil War collection
Approximately 3000 rare pamphlets, printed between 1931 and 1939. Includes items relating to the Falange and Republican parties, titles published by Germans in Spanish, literary pamphlets by García Lorca, Miguel Hernández and others, patriotic songs. Filmed from the Herbert Rutledge Southworth collection of the University of California, San Diego Library. Guide includes name, title, and subject indexes.
Libraries Service Center:  Film no. 3340

Spanish Rare Books of the Golden Age (1472-1700)
Access to hundreds of rare books. Strongest in literature and history of the 16th and 17th centuries. Index of printers; alphabetical inventory by author or title. Compiled from the holdings at the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Guide in A/V.
Libraries Service Center:  Film no. 3287

The Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
Approximately 3,200 plays in editions and some manuscripts from 17th through the mid-19th centuries. It is based on the Comedia collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library. Indices by Title and Author in A/V.
Libraries Service Center:  Film no. 3278

Women's movement in Cuba 1898-1958
Works by feminists about feminists, works by men about the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that discuss the condition of women. Author and Subject indices. From the Stoner collection on Cuban feminism. Author/Subject index in A/V.
Libraries Service Center:  Film no. 3026

Medina's Biblioteca Hispano-Americana
Microfilm of books recorded in José Toribio Medina's Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810). Medina created a chronological listing of works printed in Spain about Latin America, and works printed in Latin America, beginning with the letters of Columbus. Guide in the Stacks (Call number: Z 1601 .M4).
Libraries Service Center:  Film no. 206

Spanish plays on microcard, 16th century to the present
Over 6000 Spanish plays. Listed alphabetically by author, then title. Access to hard-to-find works. Index on D Level: PJ1103.9 .T5
Libraries Service Center:  Microcard

Escritoras Españolas
Books written by women, 16th to 19th centuries. Includes religious works, drama, novels, poetry, didactic literature. Microfiche of titles in the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Guide in A/V.
Libraries Service Center:  Microfiche C no. 2727

Colonial Latin American Manuscripts and Transcripts
Spanish and Portuguese documents (1492-1843) relating to the conquest, discovery and colonization of the New World. Name, Title, and Chronological indices in A/V. From the Rich Collection, held in the New York Public Library.
Libraries Service Center:  Film no. 3281

Interdisciplinary Collections
 
The Great Exhibition of 1851

Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations. Prospectuses of the exhibits from the influential London exhibition of 1851, providing insight into the design,
technological innovation, and business activities of the Victorian era. Essential source for study of material culture.

Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3319 Guide in A/V

The Eighteenth Century

Primarily focuses on British studies, but useful for Continental research as well. Based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), consists of approximately 200,000 items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701-1800. Contains reproductions of books, broadsides, pamphlets, etc.

Libraries Service Center: Film no. E 204  Guide in A/V (loose leaf notebook), Author, Title, and Subject access.
 

European women's periodicals
Rare and important titles: Political, professional and popular periodicals written for and by women across Europe. List of titles included.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3619

 
Women advising women

Again, primarily British in scope. Material by women for women, primarily 18th century in scope. Part 1: Early women's journals, c1700-1832. -- Part
2: Advice books, manuals, almanacs and journals, c1625-1837. -- Parts 3-4: The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832. -- Part 5: Women's writing and advice,
c1450-1720.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 162  Printed guides in A/V

 
History of Women

Primary source materials, selected from the world’s most important library holdings through 1920. The most comprehensive microfilm collection ever assembled on the subject. Includes one section on "The social and cultural construction of girls."
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. A .H57

 
Black Death

Sources concerning the European Plague, 1470-1822, from Germany, France, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Central Europe. Rare printed sources from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel; including treatises giving suggestions, instructions, and advice; short accounts of the sufferings of individual cities, towns, or villages; recipes for treatment; notes on experiments; and historical observations looking at the origins, causes, and effects of The Plague.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 308  Guide in A/V.


The Nineteenth Century

Planned to be a 30 year publishing program to reproduce on microfiche "a significant proportion of English-language works first published between 1801 and 1900." Consists of the General Collection, and five special collections: Women writers; Children's literature; Publishing, the book trade and the diffusion of  knowledge; Linguistics; and Visual arts and architecture.

Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2799   User manual and index on CD-ROM  (Comp File 83) provides for searching the bibliographic records contained in the microfiche collection by keywords - author, title, etc.

The History of the Cinema, 1895-1940

Includes 1,253 books and pamphlets on the cinema, published 1895-1940 in English and European languages. From the Museum of Modern Art, NY. 
Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2913  Handlist of titles in A/V

 
Russian Revolutionary Literature

The intellectual basis of the revolutionary movement can be studied in the writings of the major figures - Bakunin, Chernyshevskii, Tkachev, Plekhanov, Kropotkin, Chernov, Martov, Trotsky, Lenin and others. The collection also abounds in the anonymous and ephemeral pieces distributed among the workers and
peasants. All the various groups and intellectual persuasions are represented, from the early anarchists and populists on up to the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Lenin’s Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Most of the material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but a few
legally-issued publications of major authors are also in the collection.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3182

 
The Inquisitions : manuscripts of the Spanish, Portuguese and French Inquisitions.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3616 


Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature

Early literature of political economics, encompassing a complete world-view. Includes the well-known works used in studying the history of economics and business, as well as unusual and exceedingly rare items. Sections on: Colonies, Commerce, Social Conditions, Trades & Manufacturers.
 
Libraries Service Center: Each part has a separate call number. Catalog on CD-ROM. Comp File 2833
 

Archives of the Destruction: A Photographic Record of the Holocaust

The most comprehensive pictorial record available of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Provides excellent background material as well as visual
corroboration for those studying the historical roots of Nazi anti-Semitism and Jewish resistance during this period.
 
Libraries Service Center: Micro- fiche C no. 2902