Immigration in Brazil II

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Immigration in Brazil II

In January 2011 the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo started a project involving the immigration in State of São Paulo together with the Museu da Imigração. The result of this effort is an amazing online database of images available to the public which involves “documental organization, interventions of conservation and preservation, digitization and processing of digital images”.

Swiss immigrants boarding at Genoa Port, in Italy, to Brazil, in 1898. Photo from the descendants of Sta Laudicéia Schutz and now at the Museu da Imigração digital archives.

"Call Letters: About 32 000 documents that declared security aid to immigrants wishing to join the family already established in Brazil. The forms and letters facilitated the entry of immigrants who came to work in the country, for proving the existence of a charge for the cost of tickets and food. 

Record enrollment: Documentation that proves the passage of the immigrant hostel. Through the last name you can find information regarding the date of arrival, age, family, and others. The page of the book containing the record can be viewed in digital format. 

Cartography: Set of maps and plans of colonial settlements, lots, farms, buildings and the Inn of immigrants, accounting for more than 2,800 files. 

Iconographic: Research that provides about eight thousand documents that make up the collection of images. Among the materials are portraits of immigrants, postcards and photographs.

Requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works (SACOP): Documents made ​​by immigrants seeking to obtain a refund for transport costs to the arrival in Brazil. Some of these applications requested advance tickets or served to account for advances. 

Newspapers: Provides more than two thousand editions of newspapers in the colonies of immigrants in Brazil, published between the years 1886 and 1987. Most titles are in the mother tongue of the immigrant group to which the publication was directed. The issues pertain to the collection of the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo, Instituto Italiano di Cultura of São Paulo Institute of History and Geography of Sao Paulo."

More information:

Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo

Rua Visconde de Parnaíba, 1316 - São Paulo /SP - CEP: 03044-002

Tel.: (11) 4114-1800 / 2692-1866 | E-mail: museudaimigracao@museudaimigracao.org.br

Click here for the 87,000 images available for viewing and download free of charge at the Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.

Adriana's Birthday 19 Feb 1904

Today was my maternal grand aunt Adriana’s birthday. She was much more than my grand aunt, she raised my mother and looked after me and my sisters like her own grandchildren while we spent vacation with her, or when she traveled to visit us. No one called her Adriana, but Sinhá. We had a very special connection from the beginning of my life. I loved her deeply. I was 17 years old when she died in 1976 and until today I remember how caring, sweet and loving she was.

Adriana’s older sister, Leonor, was my mother's mother and my blood grandmother. Leonor died very young at 36 years old when my mother was only 5 years old. Adriana took care of my mother as her own daughter.

Adriana and Leonor were the two daughters of Thereza Lopes and Francisco Machado Drummond,  Leonor the older one and born in 1900. They were from Terceira Island in the Azores. He from the Vila de São Sebastião, Angra do Heroísmo municipality, and her family from Porto Martins, in Praia da Vitória municipality.

On this photo Adriana appears with my mother, Maria Thereza.  I believe my mother was about 6 years old. The photo has no date but I can say it's around 1934, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.