Poetry by and dedicated to Gloria Fuertes

Rare Book Collection

This collection contains four works by the twentieth century Spanish poet, Gloria Fuertes (1917-1998), with personal inscriptions from the author to the Spanish literature scholar Phyllis B. Turnbull, who was a professor at Smith College (1949-55). Both women were colleagues at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid and Bryn Mawr College.

The group of works, from the collection of Phyllis Turnbull, also includes thirty-seven other works of Spanish poetry, all of them signed presentation copies from the authors to Gloria Fuertes.

The collection is housed in the Rare Book Collection in Wilson Library.

Digital Mesoamerican Encyclopedia From Fundacion Cultural Armella Spitalier

Davis Library Reference CD-ROM Serial 10-747
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This multi-media encyclopedia was generously donated by a librarian at UNC. It was produced after extensive archaeological research and was written in Spanish and translated into English, French, and German. The 36 CD-ROM discs include both written and oral narratives with accompanying videos, photos, animation, interactive applications and games. Each individual volume covers a series of approximately forty archaeological pieces, selected from the Armella Foundation's collection, which consists of 3,600 pieces. The multimedia collection is like a portable virtual archeological exhibition with a wide variety of topics such as, pre-Colombian art, Olmec icons, pre-Hispanic cooking, and the use of ball games. The Encyclopedia is intended to support the work of students and researchers.

Miller Atlas

Maps Collection, Wilson Library
 

This is a facsimile edition of the ca. 1519 Portuguese atlas, considered a masterpiece of cartography and Renaissance art and an invaluable insight into the rapidly changing geographical understanding of Europeans during the age of exploration.

The atlas consists of 10 beautifully illustrated maps of the known world of the time, including the newly discovered Brazil, and is accompanied by a commentary volume.

Memín Pinguín

Rare Book Collection
PN6790.M64 M7

This Mexican comic book series, originally published in the 1940s, is the source of the recent controversy over the issuance of a Mexican postage stamp featuring it’s main character in June of 2005. Various US political figures, including Jesse Jackson and President Bush, have criticized the blackface character as an offensive racist caricature. Mexican officials and intellectuals have denounced this criticism as an attack on Mexico.

LAIR has acquired the first 195 issues of the series, recently reissued in Mexico in an “Edición Homenaje,” and will be adding additional issues as they become available. The series is housed in the Rare Book Collection of Wilson Library.

The Bernard J. Flatow Collection of Latin American Cronistas in the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: An Annotated Catalogue
William D. Ilgen

Davis (stacks) E141 .I644 2005

As noted in the preface, "This annotated catalogue had its origins in the 1985 acquisition by the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of a remarkable gathering of materials on the discovery, conquest, and settlement of the New World. Named the Bernard J. Flatow Collection of Latin American Cronistas after its original owner, these materials are now part of the Academic Affairs Library's Rare Book Collection."

The catalogue was authored by William D. Ilgen, who was the Latin American and Iberian Resources Bibliographer at Carolina from 1976 until 1999.

New handmade books from Ediciones Vigía

LAIR has recently acquired several handmade books from Cuba's publishing cooperative Ediciones Vigía in Matanzas. Since 1985, Ediciones Vigia has been publishing handmade books using rustic materials and illustrating each one by hand.

Alfredo Zaldívar, a poet and early member of the cooperative, said of Ediciones Vigia, "More than anything, we use our hands and our imagination." (Bridges to Cuba Ruth Behar, ed., Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan Press, 1995: p317)

Once cataloged, these works will be housed in the Rare Book Collection of UNC's Wilson Library.

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Anales del Museo Nacional de México Colección Completa 1877-1977
From the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Davis Reference CD-ROM Serial 10-203
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This collection on DVD brings together one hundred years of the Anales del Museo Nacional de México. Covering the years 1877 through 1977, this DVD presents all the articles published in the Anales as it progressed under various titles and covers subjects of archeology, history and ethnography as well as others.

Latin American Independence: Nineteenth Century Political and Official Pamphlets
From the British Library, London

Davis Microforms Collection
Call number 1-5485

This 22 reel microfilm set represents a collection of 534 Latin American pamphlets and broadsides, the majority printed in the 19th century. Of these, many date from the early years of independence and were published in the Río de la Plata Region. The greater part of the collection was formed by the Argentinean writer Luis López Dominguez (1810-98).

Other pamphlets in the collection belonged to the Argentinean Lorenzo López (ca. 1833), also a deputy for Buenos Aires. The majority of the documents concern politics or are official publications, e.g. of Argentina, Uruguay or the Province of Buenos Aires. Famous names recur: Bartolomé Mitre, Manuel Dorrego, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo Sarmiento. Some of the earliest items were printed at the famous press of the Niños Expósitos (founded to finance a foundling home in Buenos Aires). One dates from 1784, some five years after its establishment, others from 1787, 1799 and 1807. The press became part of the Imprenta del Estado in 1825. (source: vendor)

The title of this book is taken from a column in the Mexican paper, El Universal, which ran from 1917 to 1919. This was the first regular column devoted to cinema to appear in Mexico and represents the beginning of Mexican cinematic criticism. This book is a fascinating and informative look into that period and the critics of the day, primarily, Rafael Perez Taylor (who wrote under the pseudonym of Hipolito Seijas), Carlos Noriega Hope and Silvestre Bonnard

The largest section of this 563 page book consists of the original articles from El Universal. Also included are a filmography, bibliography, chronology and various essays.

Davis Microforms Collection
Call number 1-5427

This 15 reel microfilm collection contains notes on over 10,000 interviews that pioneering Latin Americanist, Robert J. Alexander, conducted with presidents, politicians, trade unionists, businessmen, government officials, military men, diplomats, and scholars.

Codice Tudela

LAIR has purchased a facsimile of this Aztec manuscript circa 1553. Many aspects of Aztec life, customs, and rituals are represented. The facsimile is housed in Wilson Library