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Finding Aids and Research Guides

The Hispanic Reading Room staff have compiled a number of selective guides to assist researchers in identifying and locating materials in the vast Library of Congress collections. The Finding Aids represent specific collections located in the Hispanic Reading Room while the Research Guides represent items stored throughout the Library. Together, these finding aids and research guides highlight a sampling of the Library's collections related to the Luso-Hispanic world. For additional information about relevant items in the Library, you may wish to consult the list of publications on or about the Hispanic and Portuguese collections.

Hispanic Reading Room Research Guides

Hispanic Division Products

Hispanic Division Country Guides

Research Guides MISC

Bibliografía anotada sobre alimentación, gastronomía, cultura y hábitos alimenticios en el mundo ibérico (Europa y América) y el Caribe
Enciclopedia Heráldica Hispano-Americana Index by Alberto and Arturo García Carraffa: genealogy
Latinx Civil Rights in the United States: A Resource Guide
Latinx Studies: Library of Congress Resources
Luis Dobles Segreda Collection of Letras Patrias: publications pertaining to, or published in, Costa Rica
Reference Guide to Panama Materials at the Library of Congress (PDF, 3.22 MB)
Roswell Randall Hoes Collection: materials relating to the Spanish-American War
Spanish Plays Collection: dramatic works published in Spain from 1812 through the early 1930s

Hispanic Reading Room Finding Aids

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Geography and Map Reading Room

Law Library of Congress

Manuscript Reading Room

Selected bibliography of manuscript materials reproduced from archives in Spain: citations of material from the Archivo General de Indias, the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid (including a number of Relaciones Geográficas of 18th century Mexico), etc.
Peter Force Collection: manuscripts and maps relating to American history, early American imprints, and incunabula
Illustration from Fray Diego Durán's Historia antigua de la Nueva España con noticias de los ritos y costumbres de los Yndios y esplicación del calendario mexicano, from a 19th century manuscript facsimile of the 1585 original
Harkness Collection: documents relating to colonial Mexico and Peru
Hans P. Kraus Collection: documents relating to colonial Spanish America
Woodbury Lowery Collection: maps and papers relating to Spanish colonies in North America
Portuguese Manuscript Collection: manuscripts relating to Portuguese history and literature