Memory of the World Register – Latin America and the Caribbean

The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register were made in 1997.^[1] By creating a compendium of the world’s documentary heritage—manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archive holdings^[2]—the program aims to tap on its networks of experts to exchange information and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials.^[3] As of 2013, 193 documentary heritages have been included in the Register, among them recordings of folk music, ancient languages and phonetics, aged remnants of religious and secular manuscripts, collective lifetime works of renowned giants of literature, science and music, copies of landmark motion pictures and short films, and accounts documenting changes in the world’s political, economic and social stage. Of these, 33 properties were nominated by countries from the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.

List by country/territory

Los Olvidados is ranked number two among the 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico and earned the Best Director award at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.^[4]

Country/Territory	Documentary heritage^[A]	Year inscribed	Custodian(s), Location(s)	Reference
Argentina	Documentary heritage of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata	1997	National Archives, Buenos Aires	[5]
Argentina	Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1976–1983 - Archives for Truth, Justice and Memory in the struggle against State Terrorism	2007	Various locations	[6]
Bahamas	Farquharson’s Journal	2009	Bahamas Archives, Nassau	[7]
Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago & United Kingdom	Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834	2009	Various locations	[8]
Barbados	Documentary Heritage of Enslaved Peoples of the Caribbean	2003	Barbados Museum and Historical Society, St. Michael	[9]
Barbados	Federal Archives Fonds	2009	University of West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown	[10]
Barbados	The Nita Barrow Collection	2009	University of West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown	[11]
Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico & Peru	American Colonial Music: a sample of its documentary richness	2007	Various locations	[12]
Brazil	The Emperor's collection: foreign and Brazilian photography in the 19th century	2003	National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro	[13]
Chile	Human Rights Archive	2003	Chilean National Archive, Santiago	[14]
Chile	Jesuits of America	2003	Chilean National Archive, Santiago	[15]
Colombia	Negros y Esclavos Archives	2005	Archivo General de la Nación de Colombia, Bogotá	[16]
Cuba	“José Martí Pérez” Fonds	2005	Marti Study Centre, Havana	[17]
Cuba	Original Negative of the Noticiero ICAIC Lationamericano	2009	Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), Havana	[18]
Dominican Republic	Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636–1670)	2009	Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo	[19]
Dominican Republic	Documentary Heritage on the Resistance and struggle for Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1961	2009	Various locations	[20]
Mexico	Collection of Mexican Codices	1997	National Library of Anthropology and History, Mexico City	[21]
Mexico	Codices from the Oaxaca Valley	1997	National Archives, Mexico City	[22]
Mexico	Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz	1997	National Archives, Mexico City	[23]
Mexico	Los olvidados	2003	Filmoteca de la UNAM, Mexico	[24]
Mexico	Biblioteca Palafoxiana	2005	Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla	[25]
Mexico	Colección de Lenguas Indigenas	2007	University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara	[26]
Mexico	Collection of the Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico (16th to 20th Century)	2009	Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi Community of Mexico, Mexico City	[27]
Nicaragua	National Literacy Crusade	2007	Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America, Managua	[28]
Paraguay	Archives of Terror	2009	Center of Documentation and Archives for the Defence of Human Rights (CDyA), Asunción	[29]
Saint Lucia	Sir William Arthur Lewis Papers	2009	Seely G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton	[30]
Trinidad and Tobago	The Derek Walcott Collection	1997	University of West Indies, St. Augustine	[31]
Trinidad and Tobago	The Eric Williams Collection	1999	University of West Indies, St. Augustine	[32]
Trinidad and Tobago	The C.L.R. James Collection	2005	University of West Indies, St. Augustine	[33]
Uruguay	Original records of Carlos Gardel - Horacio Loriente Collection (1913–1935)	2003	Archivo General de la Nación, Montevideo	[34]
Venezuela	General Archive of the Nation - Writings of The Liberator Simón Bolívar	1997	National Archives, Caracas	[35]
Venezuela	Collection of Latin American photographs of the 19th Century	1997	National Library, Caracas	[36]
Venezuela	Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda’s Archives	2007	Academia Nacional de La Historia, Caracas	[37]

Notes

^ A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.

References

1. "Third Meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
2. "UNESCO MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAMME: The Asia-Pacific Strategy". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. 1999-04-17. Archived from the original on 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2004-10-21.
3. "Twenty-three new inscriptions on Memory of the World Register of Documentary Collections". UNESCO Press. 2003-09-01. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
4. "Festival de Cannes: Reckless". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
5. "Documentary heritage of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
6. "Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1976 - 1983 - Archives for Truth, Justice and Memory in the struggle against State Terrorism". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
7. "Farquharson's Journal". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
8. "Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
9. "Documentary Heritage of Enslaved Peoples of the Caribbean". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
10. "Federal Archives Fonds". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
11. "The Nita Barrow Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
12. "American Colonial Music: a sample of its documentary richness". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
13. "The Emperor's collection: foreign and Brazilian photography in the XIX century". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
14. "Human Rights Archive of Chile". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
15. "Jesuits of America". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
16. "Negros y Esclavos Archives". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
17. ""José Martí Pérez" Fonds". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
18. "Original Negative of the Noticiero ICAIC Lationamericano". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
19. "Book for the Baptism of Slaves (1636–1670)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
20. "Documentary Heritage on the Resistance and struggle for Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1961". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
21. "Collection of Mexican Codices". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
22. "Codices from the Oaxaca Valley". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
23. "Codex Techaloyan de Cuajimalpaz". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
24. "Los olvidados". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
25. "Biblioteca Palafoxiana". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
26. "Colección de Lenguas Indigenas". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
27. "Collection of the Center of Documentation and Investigation of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico (16th to 20th Century)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
28. "National Literacy Crusade". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
29. "Archives of Terror". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
30. "Sir William Arthur Lewis Papers". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
31. "The Derek Walcott Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
32. "The Eric Williams Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
33. "The C.L.R. James Collection". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
34. "Original records of Carlos Gardel - Horacio Loriente Collection (1913-1935)". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
35. "General Archive of the Nation - Writings of The Liberator Simón Bolívar". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
36. "Collection of Latin American photographs of the 19th Century". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
37. "Colombeia: Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda's Archives". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-07.

External links

• Memory of the World Programme official website
• Memory of the World Register – Latin America and the Caribbean