Periodicals and First Imprints, 1810-1850.
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This periodical collection, part of the National Library's Sala Uruguay collection, comprises works printed in the country through 1830 (the year the Estado Oriental del Uruguay was constituted) or which, published outside the territory, are important for national and regional history. The collection includes testimonies of foundational events in the construction of the national identity and, therefore, a fundamental part of the historical heritage.
The English brought the first printing press to the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) in 1807. The collection made available to the public includes, among other documents, the first printed matter produced in this territory from that year or from 1810 (when the Spanish authorities in Montevideo promoted the publication of a newspaper to counteract the arguments of the May Revolutionaries).
The collection contains 94 documents to date. It includes newspapers, royal orders, edicts, speeches, pamphlets, communiques, regulations, poems, prayers, circulars, books and other papers. It is a small sample of the library’s collection from the printing press founding, during the so-called Artiguista cycle, the years of the Provincia Cisplatina, the liberatory revolution and the creation of the national state.
The collection is available to the public on the National Library's institutional website, which presents the documents in PDF format. The formal and thematic descriptions are adapted from the National Library's traditional cataloguing to the standardised Dublin Core metadata set, with the aim of standardising descriptions to allow information exchange with other bibliographic fonds worldwide.