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Latin America and the Caribbean Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Brazil Collections

Boyadjieff (Christo) collection

     1953-1961

Issues of Bulgarski Osvedomitelen Biuletin/Boletim Informativo Bulgaro, 1953-1955, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Bulgarian Review, 1961, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; relating to political conditions in Bulgaria.

Brazilian subject collection

     1972-2002

Serial issues, pamphlets, leaflets, election campaign literature, and studies, relating primarily to political conditions and elections in Brazil.

Cornell (John B.) papers

     1965-1968

Questionnaires, field notes, and statistics, relating to demographic characteristics of Japanese emigrants to the Noroeste region of Brazil. Includes studies summarizing findings, and a case study of Japanese in Getulina, São Paulo State.

Fazenda Tozan do Brasil records

     1941-2010

Fazenda Tozan, also known as Fazenda Monte d'Este, is an historic rural property and plantation located in the city of Campinas, São Paulo. The Fazenda Tozan do Brasil records includes records and printed matter relating to Fazenda Tozan.

Fujita (Toshiro) reports

     1911-1912

Reports relating to Japanese settlements in São Paulo state, Brazil.

Guatapara Japanese settlement collection

     1949-2023

The Cotia colony in Brazil was founded in 1962 through a collaboration between Japanese and Brazilian agricultural organizations. The collection is composed of computer print-outs of diaries, printed matter, and other assorted papers.

Kemper (James S.) papers

     1929-1974

Speeches, letters, certificates, clippings, and photographs, relating to Republican Party politics, the presidential election of 1944, and relations between the United States and Brazil.

Multi-country newspaper collection

     1905-2007

The Multi-Country newspaper collection consists of forty-four unique titles from thirty different countries: Algeria, Angola, Brazil, Burma, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, French West Africa, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indochina, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Mali, Madagascar, Manchuria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, San Marino, Sarawak, South Africa, Tanganyika, Thailand and Vietnam. Some titles are available on microfilm. Microfilm availability and further analyzed title information can be found in Stanford's Library catalog.

Packenham (Robert A.) papers

     1958-1991

Writings, correspondence, notes, interview transcripts and sound recordings, and printed matter, relating to economic development and dependency theory, American foreign aid, and political and economic development in Brazil.

Perlman (Janice E.) papers

     1960-2007

Writings, studies, reports, notes, and printed matter relating to urban poverty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, internal migration in Brazil, and urban poverty elsewhere in the developing world. In part, used as research material for Perlman's books The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro (Berkeley, 1976) and Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Rusins (Alfreds T.) papers

     1949-1978

Correspondence, press releases, bulletins, writings, financial records, and printed matter, relating to Latvian émigréaffairs, especially in Brazil.