Edited by Victor Herrero Mediavilla and L. Rosa Aguayo Nayle. This collection is a single-alphabet cumulation of 300 Spanish and Portuguese biographical reference works originally published between 1700 and 1920. The material has been collected on 21 Latin American countries, the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Mexico, Mozambique, Macao and the Philippines. The archives cover the monarchy and nobility, military and religious figures, statesmen, explorers and discoverers, ethnic groups, foreigners, bullfighters and pirates, musicians, educators, traders, philosophers, lawyers and numerous other men and women of local, national, and international importance and includes 300,000 individuals in all. The collection includes illustrations, portraits, manuscripts, letters, speeches and interviews.
Most entries are in Spanish and Portuguese.
Variant name spellings and alternative names, such as honorary titles, are cross-referenced. Portuguese and some Brazilian entries are listed alphabetically under the father's surname, but the commonly used mother's surname is also listed in the entry. . . The collection is in a single alphabetized sequence. Consult the World Biographical Index listed below. A multilingual thesarus can be used to search details of occupations in German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish.