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91. EAP627/2/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/10
Title:
Geographic Atlas
Scope & Content:
The series contains printed books on Brazilian geography, empasizing climate, relief, the orographic system (serra do mar, mountain ranges and mountains in the interior), political divisions, railways, economic production, and the ecclesiastical division of Brazil. One book has original hardcov...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1868-1909
Extent:
272 TIFF images

92. EAP627/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/12
Title:
Colonial, Imperial, and Republican Documents
Scope & Content:
The series is composed of incomplete codices and loose handwritten and typewritten documents produced between 1781 and 1927. Includes registers of land grants (sesmarias) donated between 1781 and 1783 by governor Jerônimo José de Mello e Castro; royal letter (carta régia) ordering the remittance...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:
1781-1927
Extent:
1,864 TIFF images

93. EAP627/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/1
Title:
Land Grants (Registro de Sesmarias)
Scope & Content:
This series contains bound volumes of handwritten documents. The books of land grants (Sesmarias) reveal the process by which agrarian space was occupied in Paraíba during the colonial period. The land grant letters contain requests for land made to the Portuguese Crown in compensation for effo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1704-1824
Extent:
4,768 TIFF images

94. EAP627/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/2
Title:
Land Titles
Scope & Content:
This series includes land titles as mandated by an 1850 legislation law (Lei de Terras). Included in this series are land and/or house titles from the parishes of: Nossa Senhora da Guia da Vila de Patos from 1855-1856; Nossa Senhora das Neves (modernday João Pessoa) from 1854-1861; Nossa Senhor...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1854-1865
Extent:
2,896 TIFF images

95. EAP627/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/3
Title:
Acts by the Central Administration (Portugal and Brazil), 1797-1856
Scope & Content:
The series is composed of royal letters (cartas régias) and provisions by the Prince Regent and by Dom Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho, relating to administrative matters of the Paraíba Captaincy, dating from 1707 to 1805; orders issued by the State Secretary for Imperial Affairs (Secretaria de Estad...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1797-1856
Extent:
1,322 TIFF images

96. EAP627/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/4
Title:
Rank Letters
Scope & Content:
The series contains rank letters (cartas patentes) of military officers of the Cavalry Regiment Company (Companhia do Regimento da Cavalaria); North Regiment's Infantry Troop Company (Companhia da Tropa da Infantaria do Regimento do Norte); Third Pardos' Company (Terceira Companhia dos Homens Pa...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1776-1865
Extent:
1,564 TIFF images

97. EAP627/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/5
Title:
Acts of the Paraíba Government
Scope & Content:
This series contains documents produced by the Provisory Provincial Junta (Junta Provincial Provisória) that governed during the last years of the colonial regime and the early years of the Province as part of the Brazilian nation (1821-1824); correspondence between Paraíba's Provincial Governme...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1823-1889
Extent:
23,360 TIFF images

98. EAP627/3/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/6
Title:
Mayor and Police Authorities
Scope & Content:
The series contains official letters exchanged between the Mayor of the First Parish (Prefeito da Primeira Comarca), Frederico d’Almeida e Albuquerque, and the Police Corps, from 1837 to 1838, as well as correspondence from the Chief of Police to the President of the Province (Presidente de Prov...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1837-1871
Extent:
6,560 TIFF images

99. EAP627/3/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/7
Title:
Public Education
Scope & Content:
This series contains correspondence from Paraíba's Public Education Board of Directors ("Diretoria de Instrução Pública da Paraíba") of the President of the Province of Paraíba between 1864 and 1889, recorded according to the powers of the director and other public education officials. It includ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1865-1889
Extent:
1,448 TIFF images

100. EAP627/3/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/8
Title:
Municipal Council (Câmara) and Provincial Assembly
Scope & Content:
This series contains registers of decrees issued by the General Council of the Province of Paraíba, between 1830 and 1835, signed by Vice President Joaquim José Luiz de Sousa, and Provincial Secretary José Lucas de Souza Rangel. Decrees relate to: behaviors observed in different municipalities o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1830-1853
Extent:
616 TIFF images

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