This digital collection includes popular songs, oral traditions and record broadcasts in vernacular languages from the station's creation in 1988 through the 2000s. The collection is augmented by robust metadata created by a team of Cultural Mediators who conducted field work across Mali to engage communities. The memories of performers, singers and musicians enrich the digitized recordings now available.
This digital collection focuses on photographs from multiple collections held at the Archivo Histórico de Tijuana, including materials from the Colección Guadalupe Kirarte Domínguez. Images in the collection document people, buildings, political activism and public events as well as the City’s administrative office.
Throughout the twentieth century, thousands of original written manuscripts were authored by one of Frevo's most notable contributors - Captain Zuzinha and his band. This collection of manuscripts represents the first formal record of Frevo’s creation and documents of the birth of frevo as a vibrant cultural expression.
The collection includes books and periodicals associated with Bengali Muslim intellectuals including M. Abdur Rahman, Abdul Jabbar, Abdul Bari and Abdul Aziz Al Amman as well as back-issues of Neda-e-Islam, a monthly religious magazine affiliated with the Furfura Sharif Sufi reform movement, manuscripts and print materials belonging to Acharya Mahananda Haldar, the preeminent Matua theologian and historian, and all available back-issues of the Bangla local news-weekly, Birbhum-Barta (circa 1905-1984).
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.
This collection includes videos from 396 film containers from the collection of the news program “El Mundo al Día,” a daily news broadcast that aired from 1954 to 1996 on the first television channel of the Dominican Republic. El Mundo al Dia covered socio-political activities that occurred across the country under the final years of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina dictatorship from 1956 to 1961, the political periods of the Consejos de Estado (Council of States) from 1961 to 1962, the Triunvirato government from 1963 to 1966 until the election of president Joaquín Balaguer. The 12 year regime of Balaguer (1966 to 1978) was marked by persecutions and political assassinations, but was also a time of great development of public works such as schools, dumps, roads and housing projects. The archive also includes materials that document the government of Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1978-1982), marked by his suicide in 1982, 43 days before the end of his term, and president Salvador Jorge Blanco, remembered because of the hundreds of deaths caused by the uprising of “La Poblada de Abril de 1984” against his government.
The Afghanistan Center at Kabul University (ACKU) has digitized 5000 images from the Dupree collection, including images from the 1950's until the early 2000’s. The digital collection reflects cultural heritage, architecture, landscape, and art. The images offers insight into Afghanistan’s developments in politics, culture, history, and geography over a span of fifty years.
The Universidade Federal do Oeste do Para (UFOPA) in Brazil has digitized the archive of the Court of Justice located in the city of Óbidos, Brazil in the Lower Amazon region. The first part of the collection documents criminal trials regarding theft, threat, aggression, murder, sexual harassment, prisoner runaway, and more. The other part of the collection, the civil trials, covers a wide variety of subjects, such as inheritance inventories, guardianship of orphans, emancipation of minors, acknowledgment of paternity, bankruptcies of commercial establishments, disputes for land, labor court trials (rubber industry, big infrastructure projects), acquisitions of land by prescription as consequence of authoritarian projects for Amazonia, and more. A particular point of cultural interest in this collection is the series of documentation on trials regarding land disputes. This part of the collection reflects the support of local people for creating protected areas including indigenous lands, territories of descendants of African slaves, and ecological conservation units for people of historical traditions. This content can help reconstitute chains of ownership of lands to better identify instances of land grabbing. These court records also document the daily lives of Amazonian civilians in a time of restricted individual rights as well as the modernization of Amazonia by authoritarian projects.
