to the Constitution of the Empire (1824) In its two units in Rio de Janeiro and
Brasilia, the National Archives of Brazil safeguards about 55 km of text documents; 1.74 million photographs and negatives, 200 photo albums, 4 thousand cartoons and drawings, 3 thousand posters, a thousand postcards, 300 drawings and 20 thousand illustrations, as well as maps, films and sound recordings. The textual documentation from the federal Executive,
Judicial and
Legislative and the former
Moderating powers also includes private collections. Correspondence and legislation originated around the Portuguese ultramarine empire, the archives brought with the court of João VI in 1808, among others, describe the beginning of Brazilian society. With the rupture of the colonial past, the formation of the imperial state can be known through the documents generated by the ministries and the judiciary, such as the Casa da Suplicação, the General Audit of Marinha, in addition to the original Constitution of 1824 and the
Golden Law. Among the documents produced by the republican regime, stand out the entry records of immigrants, patents of inventions, books of civil registry, civic and criminal proceedings, sightings of
UFOs, urbanization and sanitation projects related to the first years of the 20th century. The constitutions from the year 1891, the processes of the National Security Court, the Supreme Military Court and the
Supreme Federal Court, the censorship bodies, the documents of entities such as the
National Information Service, which compose the repressive apparatus to the Political struggles of the
Military Dictatorship and several other governmental institutions reflect the formation of contemporary Brazil and relevant aspects of the country's recent history. In addition to the documents of the information and counter-information body of the military regime, personal archives and private entities are important, including
Eusébio de Queirós, the
Duke of Caxias,
Bertha Lutz,
Luis Carlos Prestes, Salgado Filho,
San Tiago Dantas, Goes Monteiro,
Apolônio de Carvalho, Mário Lago, Zelia Pedreira Abreu Magalhães,
Maria Beatriz Nascimento, the presidents of Republic
Floriano Peixoto,
Prudente de Morais,
Afonso Pena,
João Goulart, the
Brazilian Academy of Letters, the Brazilian Federation for Female Progress, the Institute of Pesquisa e Estudos Sociais (IPES) and the Association of Brazilian Archivists. Composed of maps and architectural plans, the cartographic documentation has more than 44,000 titles on the geography of different regions of the world and Brazil from the 17th to the 20th century. In reference to Brazil, the planning and urban infrastructure projects stand out, such as the buildings of the Central Avenue, current Rio Branco Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, as well as railroads, telegraphs, ports, rivers and canalization of the systems of water supply. The iconographic documentation has its starting point in the 1860s, coinciding with the expansion of photography. Of the universe of images produced by important national and foreign photographers who worked in Brazil and abroad, the archives of the National Agency (1930–1979), the newspaper
Correio da Manhã (1901–1974) and the
Ferrez family stand out (1839–2000), as well as private records of the Collection of Single Photographs. The collection of sound documents covers the period from 1902 to the year 1990 and consists of more than 11 thousand articles, including records and audio tapes of National Agency fond, Presidency of the Republic,
Radio Mayrink Veiga, Humberto Franceschi, Radio Jornal do Brasil, Casa Edison and Public Amusement Censorship Service, as well as collections of classical and popular music. The set of moving images has impressive records of Brazilian history and culture. There are 33 thousand titles, in a total of 124 thousand rolls of film and 4 thousand videomagnetic tapes. They are part of the collection newsreels, documentaries, fiction films and advertising, family and film clippings that were censored, derived from the National Agency, the Division of Public Diversity Censorship,
TV Tupi and the National Energy Commission Nuclear, among other fonds and collections.
Documents nominated by UNESCO as Memory of the World The National Archives, in addition to supporting the functioning of the National Committee of Brazil, under the Ministry of Culture, has nominated some documents in the
Memory of the World Program, of
UNESCO. , 1888
National Registry (Brazil) • Autos da Devassa – The
Minas Gerais Conspiracy, Levante de
Tiradentes – 2007 •
Golden Law – 2008 • Vapor relations with list of immigrants. Santos Maritime, Air and Border Policy Service (SPMAF / SP-Santos) – 2009 • National Agency: information at the service of the State, in conjunction with the Cinemateca Brasileira Foundation – 2010 • Fond Francisco Bhering – The Letter of Brazil to the millionth (1777–1937) – 2011 • Original Correspondence of the Governors of
Pará with the Portuguese Court. Letters and Annexes (1764–1807) – 2017 • The Brazilian Federation for Women's Progress Fond as part of the legacy of
Bertha Lutz (1881–1985) in conjunction with the Historical Archive of Itamaraty, the Documentation and Information Center of the Chamber of Deputies and the Memory Center of the
University of Campinas – CMU / UNICAMP – 2018 • Security and Information Advisory Fond of the National Indian Foundation – ASI / FUNAI (1968–2000) – 2018
Regional Registry (Latin America) • Fonds of Information network and Counterintelligence of the
Military Dictatorship (1964–1985), together with the Public Archives of the State of
Ceará, the Public Archives of
Espírito Santo, the Public Archives João Emerenciano of
Pernambuco, the Public Archives of
Maranhão, the Public Archives of
Minas Gerais, the Public Archives of
Rio de Janeiro, the
Public Archives of the State of São Paulo, the Archives Department of
Paraná and the Information, Documentation and Archives Center – Cidarq of the
Federal University of Goiás – 2011 • The
War of the Triple Alliance: iconographic and cartographic representations, together with the Army Historical Archives, the Historic Archives and the Historic Map Library of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Marine Heritage and Documentation Department, the
National Library of Brazil, the National Museum of History, the
Imperial Museum, the
National Museum of Fine Arts and the
Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute – 2013
International Registry • Fonds of Information network and Counterintelligence of the
Military Dictatorship (1964–1985), together with the Public Archives of the State of
Ceará, the Public Archives of
Espírito Santo, the Public Archives João Emerenciano of
Pernambuco, the Public Archives of
Maranhão, the Public Archives of
Minas Gerais, the Public Archives of
Rio de Janeiro, the
Public Archives of the State of São Paulo, the Archives Department of
Paraná and the Information, Documentation and Archives Center – Cidarq of the
Federal University of Goiás – 2011 • The
War of the Triple Alliance: iconographic and cartographic representations, together with the Army Historical Archives, the Historic Archives and the Historic Map Library of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Marine Heritage and Documentation Department, the
National Library of Brazil, the National Museum of History, the
Imperial Museum, the
National Museum of Fine Arts and the
Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute – 2015 •
Carlos Gomes: composer of both worlds, in conjunction with the School of Music of the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro;
National Library of Brazil;
Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB); Teatrale alla Scala Museum (Italy); Carlos Gomes Museum of the Science, Arts and Arts Center (CCLA); National Historic Museum (MHN);
Imperial Museum and Museum of the
Federal University of Pará (MUFPA) – 2017
Some documents housed by the National Archives File:Sentença proferida contra os réus do levante e conjuração de Minas Gerais. Autos da Devassa da Conjuração Mineira.jpg|Sentence pronounced against the leaders of the
Inconfidência Mineira, 1792 File:00 Constituição do Império do Brasil.jpg|
Constitution of the
Empire of Brazil, 1824 File:Parte da Ópera O Guarani.tif|Part of the Opera
Il Guarany, by
Carlos Gomes, 1866 File:Capa do cardápio do último Baile da Ilha Fiscal.tif|Cover of the menu of the last Dance of Fiscal Island, 1889 File:Bairros de Copacabana e Leme, early 20th century.tif|Neighborhoods of
Copacabana and
Leme, Rio de Janeiro, at the beginning of the 20th century File:Vale do Anhangabaú, early 20th century.tif|Anhangabaú Valley,
São Paulo, at the beginning of the 20th century File:Princesa Isabel em 1906.jpg|Princess
Isabel, 1906 File:Lista de Passageiros do Kasato Maru.jpg|List of Passengers of
Kasato Maru, 1908 File:Passaporte de Santos Dumont.tif|Passport of
Santos-Dumont, 1919 File:Presidente Artur Bernardes e ministros de Estado.tif|President
Artur Bernardes and Ministers of State, 1922 File:Planta do 1° pavimento do Palácio Monroe, Rio de Janeiro.tif|Plan of the 1st floor of the
Palácio Monroe, 1924 File:Marie Curie e integrantes da Federação Brasileira para o Progresso Feminino.jpg|
Marie Curie and members of the
Brazilian Federation for Women's Progress, 1926 File:Mapa político do Estado de Sergipe.jpg|Political map of the State of
Sergipe, 1937 File:Jogo no Estádio do Maracanã, antes da Copa do Mundo de 1950.tif|Opening game of the
Maracanã Stadium, before the
1950 World Cup File:AI-5 fl.01.jpg|
AI-5, 1968 File:Tom Jobim e Chico Buarque no Festival Internacional da Canção (FIC) restored.jpg|
Tom Jobim and
Chico Buarque at the International Song Festival (FIC), 1968 File:Censura Roque Santeiro p5 6.jpg|Censorship of the novel
Roque Santeiro, 1985 == Libraries ==