The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana at Vanderbilt University includes unique primary sources on 17th to 20th-century Colombian history and culture. The result of a half-century of collecting on three continents, the collection is one of the largest and most wide-ranging in the United States. The collection includes books, manuscripts, broadsides, pamphlets (including novenas), royal cedulas, programas, and newspapers.

The database includes a selection of full text searchable broadsides, pamphlets, and programas. Some additional records for materials that have not yet been scanned are also included in the database.

Online exhibits and corresponding essays are linked below.

For questions about the collection, please contact Paula Covington, Bibliographer for Latin American and Iberian Studies and Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies.

Colombia in the 19th Century

Rebellion and Nation Building in 19th-Century Colombia

Colombia in the Early 20th Century

Colombian Independence

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El fique, su cultivo y beneficio industrial (1918)
A scientific paper promoting the growth of fique, the hemp producing plant in Valle del Cauca Dept.

Programa para el exámen privado de los alumnos de la escuela de Zaragoza, en el mes de junio del año de mil ochociento sesenta i ocho. (1868)
The 1868 programa in MS, of the colegio at Zaragoza, Antioquia, in: reading, writing-penmanship, arithmetic, sacred history, and etiquette. This was a small town school.