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Brazil report
Workers watch the derailing of wagons at the Railroad Madeira-Mamoré, in a picture by Dana B. Merrill, in the Museu Paulista collection. 
"Beija-flor", by Jean-Theodore Descourtilz (1860); artwork under the custody of the Brazilian National Archives. 
Lusophone community at the GLAM-Wiki Conference in Tel-Aviv, in November. 
Diverse milestones for the Brazilian community
By Joalpe
The Brazilian community has reached new milestones. Links and documentation are provided for each topic.
- ~13,000 images uploaded from the set of Militão Augusto de Azevedo
- ~190 images from the Dana Merrill Collection on the pioneering development of railroad in the Amazonian Forest
- We are currently working on the upload of the personal collection of the inventor Santos Dumont, which includes ~600 images of objects and pictures.
- An education program associated to this GLAM-Wiki initiative is currently underway, with a specific focus on the context of the so-called modern collection (1880-1940).
- ~750 images on the Brazilian military dictatorship
- ~200 images of the Rare Artwork Collection of the Arquivo Nacional
- ~50 videos produced by the National Agency to promote tourism in Brazilian cities
- We are currently working on the upload of the collection of the Department of Censorship, specifically the set on the Brazilian Carnival.
Events
- We will be present at the Conference on Digital Collections, from November 27 to 29, in Rio de Janeiro.
- Watch our presentations at the GLAM-Wiki Conference in Tel Aviv. Events were streamed by Andrew Lih.
November 2018
- Albania report
- Armenia report
- Brazil report
- Denmark report
- Estonia report
- Finland report
- France report
- Indonesia report
- Macedonia report
- New Zealand report
- Norway report
- Philippines report
- Poland report
- Serbia report
- Sweden report
- UK report
- USA report
- Wikipedia Library report
- WMF GLAM report
- Calendar
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