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Special Collections and Oliveira Lima Library — Latin American Independence Resources

This research guide represents a collaborative effort between The Catholic University of America’s Special Collections and Oliveira Lima Library to highlight holdings related to Mexican, Venezuelan, and Brazilian Independence.

Manuscripts

Anonymous, incomplete letter concerning the recognition of Brazilian independence by Great Britain

Creator: Great Britain. Foreign Office

Date: May 5, 1825

Call No.: MSS III 044 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Books

Views and costumes of the city and neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1822)

Author: Chamberlain, Henry, Lieutenant, 1796-1843

Call No.: RBK 1172 1822 (Oliveira Lima Library)

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma9966369753604103

 

Memoria sobre as principaes cauzas, : porque deve o Rio de Janeiro conservar a união com Pernambuco offerecida à Sua Magestade Imperial (1823)

Author: B. J. G. (Bernardo José da Gama, Visconde de Goyana), 1782-1854

Call No.: RBK 2761 1823 (Oliveira Lima Library)

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma9966246023604103

 

Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 (1824)

Author: Callcott, Maria, Lady (1785–1842)

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma9966322373604103

 

Voyage dans le district des Diamans et sur le littoral du Brésil : suivi de notes sur quelques plantes caractéristiques et d'un précis de l'histoire des révolutions de l'empire brésilien, depuis le commencement du règne de Jean VI jusqu'a l'abdication de D. Pedro / par Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, chevalier de la Légion-d'Honneur, membre de l'Académie royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France, des Sociétés philomatique de Paris, et Linnéenne de Londres, des Académies de Lisbonne, Genève, Rio de Janeiro, etc. (1833)

Author: Saint-Hilaire, August de, 1779-1853

Call No.: F2561 .S354 1833 (Oliveira Lima Library)

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1ib1c8o/alma9966311213604103

 

Sketches of residence and travels in Brazil, embracing historical and geographical notices of the empire and its several provinces (1845)

Author: Kidder, Daniel Parish 

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma9966257753604103

 

Brazil and the Brazilians, portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches (1857)

Authors: Kidder, Daniel Parish and Fletcher, James Cooley

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma9966219893604103

 

Recordações da vida patriotica do advogado Rebouças : $bcomprehendida nos acontecimentos politicos de fevereiro de 1821 a setembro de 1822, de abril a outubro de 1831, de fevereiro de 1832 e de novembro de 1837 a março de 1838 (1879)

Author: Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, $d1798-1880

Call No.: CT688.R39 R42 1879 (Oliveira Lima Library)

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma9966411263604103

 

Oliveira Lima Pamphlet Collection

A collection of thousands of pamphlets spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. For information on the Oliveira Lima Library’s pamphlets on Brazilian Independence, contact Oliveira Lima Library staff: cua-limalibrary@cua.edu.

Artworks

Dom João VI, Rei do Reino Unido de Portugal, Brazil e Algarves &a  / Esbrard del., P. Tassaert sculp

Artist: Esbrard

Date: [ca. 1820]

Call No.: ART 1-01-2 DJVI [1820] E74 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 print : lithograph, sheet 58 x 43 cm

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186197563304103

 

D. Pedro de Alcantara, Principe Real do Reino Unido de Portugal, Brazil e Algarves

Artist: Badoureau, Jean-François, 1789-

Date: [1821]

Call No.: ART 1-01-2 DPI 1821 B137 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 print ; 79 x 55 cm

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186185663404103

 

Calendario perpetuo, allegorico, dedicado a Sua Magestade o senhor Dom Pedro Primeiro, imperador constitucional & defensor perpetuo do Brasil

Artist unknown

Date: [ca. 1826]

Call No.: ART 1-01-2 DPI [1826] P853 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 print : lithograph, black-and-white, in frame 63 x 47 cm

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186185663204103

 

[Retrato de Dom Pedro, 1831]

Artist: Sá, Simplício Rodrigues de, 1775–1839

Call No.: ART 1-05-2 IMPII 1831 S111 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 painting : oil on canvas, in frame 64 x 55 cm

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186168463604103

 

[Retrato de Dona Francisca, 1831]

Artist: Sá, Simplício Rodrigues de, 1775–1839

Call No.: ART 1-05-2 IMPF 1831 S111 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 painting : oil on canvas 51 x 44 cm

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186168463704103

 

[Retrato de Dona Januária, 1831]

Artist: Sá, Simplício Rodrigues de, 1775–1839

Call No.: ART 1-05-2 IMPJ 1831 S111 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 painting : oil on canvas, in frame 51 x 44 cm 

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186168363704103

 

[Retrato de Dona Paula, 1831]

Artist: Sá, Simplício Rodrigues de, 1775–1839

Call No.: ART 1-05-2 IMPP 1831 S111 (Oliveira Lima Library)

Description: 1 painting : oil on canvas, in frame 51 x 44 cm

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/1t6v7eb/alma99186168362704103