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Brazil Clipping Service records (MS.2016.021)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Scope & content

The collection contains newspaper clippings from two daily newspapers in Brazil, O Estrado de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo) and Jornal do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro), and the weekly Opiniao from April 1971 to October 1975. The articles were arranged by topic, including: politics, military, government programs, foreign relations, economy, industries and investments, banking and finance, international loans, trade, minerals and mining, domestic unrest, church, education, social welfare, Indians, geographic regions, and environment. The collection also includes the monthly indices that were mailed to subscribers along with reproductions of the clippings from July 1971 until the end of the service in February 1976. It also includes a promotional brochure about their clipping service specifically on the topic of Indian Peoples of Brazil.