Levantamento, cataloga??o e digitaliza??o de fontes históricas sobre as Cataratas do Igua?u (1850-1910)

摘要

In this study, the activities developed by the Research and Scientific Initiation Project "The construction of a 'wonder': Brazil and Argentina and the disputes over the landscape of the Igua?u Falls (1850-1910)" between December 12, 2013 and December 31, 2016 are presented. One of the objectives of this research was to search for historical sources about the Igua?u Falls during the temporal cut proposed by the project. With this delimitation, the collection, cataloging and digitalization of documents preserved and available in information units in Brazil and Argentina were done through digital photography. The research methodology was divided into three stages. The first one consisted in the selection of national libraries and archives that make catalogs available on web systems, thus carrying out the survey of references and their guard institution. The second stage consisted of on-site research, with the access and digitization of the works. And, finally, a digital collection was formed. As a result, there is the constitution of a collection that has 138 cataloged historical sources, of which 71 were photographed. All of them together make up a total of 2,091 images containing the history of the landscape, the interaction of the local inhabitants with the environment and the relations Between Brazil and Argentina.