This digital collection consists of approximately 1,200 sound recordings and audio cassettes, including ballads, oral epics and storytelling recorded from 1980 to 2003. The recordings not only capture an array of unique performances and musical practices, but also the social connections that were made by performing.
The Women Against Violence Against Women(WAVAW) Collection is a mixture of papers and organizational records, publications, ephemera and audio-visual materials collected by organization member Dani Adams (national office in Los Angeles). Of particular interest are the internal memos and complete run of national newsletters produced by the Los Angeles Chapter for national chapter distribution and slides and scripts from the WAVAW slide show, the presentation that chapter members showed to audiences nationwide. There is also extensive coverage of WAVAW's actions against the film "Snuff" and the Rolling Stones's "Black and Blue" advertising campaign and national boycott of Warner Communications, Inc. (WCI).
The personal collection of Tomás Olivera documents the history of the Afro-Uruguayan population from 1960 to 2005. Digitization of this collection addresses the absence of Afro-Uruguayans from existing archives in Uruguay. Digitization was completed by the Archivo Sociedad en Movimientos.
The Fundacja Q Archive aims to counteract the vulnerability of ‘queer memory’ by preserving queer history, including evidence of Polish queer activism from the late 1980s until the present. This digital collection includes community heritage such as photographs, postcards, written personal memoirs, short-run printed materials, zines, personal documents, correspondence, posters as well as internal documents and official records.
This digital collection is comprised of selected digitized photographic negatives from the analog photographic archive. Digitization and description of this collection is ongoing. The analog collection consists of photonegatives documenting events and people in Southern California and photographic prints documenting events and people in Southern California, the U.S., and the world. The material originates from the Los Angeles Times newspaper and includes glass negatives (ca. 1918-1932), nitrate negatives (ca. 1925-45), and safety negatives (ca. 1935-present). Also includes prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Times Orange County and San Diego bureaus.
This digital collection includes documents from the Interdiocese Project for the Recovery of the Historic Memory (REMHI): Never Again. This project was launched in 1994 by the Archbishop's Office for Human Rights (ODHA) of Guatemala and collected documents and testimonies related to the armed conflict in Guatemala (1960-1996). The materials include community reports, eyewitness accounts of massacres, newspaper clippings and additional press materials. These different kinds of documentation reflect a range of themes and topics, including the Communities of Population in Resistance (CPR), the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PAC), refugees and internal displacement, social violence of the internal armed conflict. The collection also includes photographs that show the first exhumations carried out in the early 1990s, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Monsignor Juan Gerardi Conedera, the Peace Process and Martyrs' Hall.
This collection includes 3,300 audio recordings that document Mexican social movements and indigenous cultures through the voices of social activists, peasants, native (indigenous) Mexicans, musicians, traditional physicians, and guardians of traditional culture. The original field and studio recordings were collected throughout Mexico by Ricardo Montejano between 1970 and the present. These audio recordings document political and cultural realities of Mexican people.
