Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution

  • Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution
  • Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution

Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution

This project proposes the digitization of an initial corpus of rare nineteenth-century Peruvian serials, ephemeral circulars, and popular song and verse imprints held in the José E. Durand Peruvian History Collection at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries. These unique materials support new scholarship on diverse political and cultural topics in Peruvian history. They also offer new insights on the worldwide nineteenth-century revolution in print culture, providing fodder for comparative work by scholars across disciplines. The materials included in this first corpus date to the first half of the nineteenth century. They will be digitized and enhanced with OCR. They will then be slated for incorporation into the Libraries’ repository that allows users to browse, search, and sort according to research interests. Along with uniting a variety of valuable, often fragile, and difficult-to-access sources together in one location, this project effectively returns these materials to the scholarly community and to the Latin American public through a commitment to open access.