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Coordination of Cartographic and Audiovisual Documents - CODAC
The collection presents the mapping world geography of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through maps, plans, maps and nautical. Referring to Brazil, we are planning projects, provinces, states and cities, the infrastructure is marked by the railroads, telegraph lines, ports, dams, settlements, projects canalization of rivers and water supply.
The iconographic collection consists of photographs, slides, negatives, photographs, illustrations, prints, caricatures and cartoons, posters and drawings of various formats. Among the achievements stand out, the photographs of the National Agency funds (1937-1979), the newspaper Correio da Manha (1901-1974), the Collection of Photographs Detached (1860-1964), and private sources of funds donated to the Archives National, like Mario Lago, Joao Goulart, Duque de Caxias, Pena and others, totaling about 2 million items documentary.
The collection of moving images have significant records of Brazilian history and culture. They are part of the acquis newsreels, documentaries, fiction, advertising films, family films and clips that were censored.
Among the funds and collections, are the presidency, the National Cesar Nunes Productions Motion Picture and TV Tupi (Rio de Janeiro).
Are also deposited under the lending, major works of Brazilian filmmakers. Among the public and private collections, we have approximately 33,000 titles in various media.
The sound collection is composed of more than 11,000 items, including disks and tapes audiomagnéticas, for the period from 1902 to 1990. In this group are important records of the national memory, like the speeches of presidents, newspaper reporting, and campaign jingles, and a large music collection.
Noteworthy are the National Agency funds, the Presidency, Radio Mayrink Veiga, Dantas, Humberto Franceschi, Radio Jornal do Brazil, Edison House, SESI Service and Public Entertainment Censorship. There are also collections of classical and popular music.
Coordination of Written Documents - CODES
The collection of textual documents is from the executive, legislative and judiciary also includes federal and private collections. Correspondence and legislation generated around the Portuguese overseas empire, the files come with d. John VI in 1808, among others, describe the early Brazilian society. With the breakdown of the colonial bond, the formation of the imperial state can be known through the documents produced by ministries, the judiciary and the original Constitution of 1824 and the Golden Law.
The beginning of the Republic, in the transition from slave to free labor, is described in other documentation produced by the new regime, which highlights the documentation on the entry of immigrants, patents for inventions, books, civil registry, processes Pretoria criminal urbanization projects and sanitation works originating in the early decades of the twentieth century.
In the country's recent history can highlight all the federal constitutions, the processes of civil and criminal Pretoria, the National Security Court, the Censorship and Entertainment Division of Public and documents of institutions like the National Industrial Development Council.
Among the archives and private collections of public men and institutions of the colonial period to today, are those of the Marquis Lavradio, Floriano Peixoto, Afonso Pena, de Goes Monteiro, San Tiago Dantas, John Goulart, the Institute for Research and Social Studies - IPES and the Stock Exchange of Rio de Janeiro.
Republic Square, 173
Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20211-350
Phone: 55 21 2179-1228 | 2179-1273
Contact: pi@arquivonacional.gov.br
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