ISRE - Documents and photographs

The digitization activities at the Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute (ISRE) include more than 300,000 documents from various historical collections, coming from donations and acquisitions, consisting mostly of handwritten documents, books and magazines, vintage illustrated postcards, engravings and prints and a large collection of photographic collections, partly dating back to the early twentieth century, including negatives on plate and film and photographic prints, partly from the contemporary era.

The Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute (ISRE)
The ISRE was established by Regional Law 26/1972 with the attached Museum of Sardinian Life and Popular Traditions. The aims of the institution are the study and documentation of the social and cultural life of Sardinia in its traditional manifestations and transformations. The activity is carried out through an articulated series of tasks and functions, including: the management of the Regional Museum of Sardinian Life and Popular Traditions, now called the Museum of Costume (Nuoro), the Deleddian Museum (Nuoro), the Regional Ethnographic Museum-Luigi Cocco Collection (Cagliari, Citadel of Museums); the management of the Media Library. The Institute takes care of the preparation of exhibitions and conferences, conducts studies and research and creates audiovisual and cinematographic productions

related to institutional areas.

The media library
The Institute preserves an enormous library and documentary heritage collected over time through purchases and donations. The media library is divided into two sections. The Historical Fund Archive, which houses several collections of historical and archival interest coming from donations and purchases that include numerous manuscripts, an iconographic section (vintage illustrated postcards, engravings and prints). The visual and sound archive: further divided by support and type into video-filmoteca

, dia-phototeca, sound documents.

Digitalization
The collections being digitized include the following resources from the Historical Funds Archive and the Visual and Sound Archive:

Raffaele Ciceri Fund: Negatives on plate Photographic prints
Guido Costa Fund: Negatives on plate, Negatives on film, Photographic prints
Piero Pirari Fund: Photographic prints, Negatives on film, Negatives on plate
Giulio Pili Fund: Negatives on plate
Wolfgang Suschitzky Fund: Photographic Prints, Negatives on Film
Jean Dieuzaide Fund: Photographic Prints, Slides
Miscellaneous slides
Rare volumes
Volumes before 1939
Grazia Deledda Fund: Madesani Donation, Porcu Clemente Donation, Neppi Modona Donation, Galli Donation, Ganga Deledda Letter Purchase, Pinna Donation, Madesani Purchase, Pirodda Purchase
Giorgio Asproni Dolfin Donation Fund
ISRE editorial production
Colombini and miscellaneous postcards
Dono Madesani Periodicals
Sardegna Periodicals
Library prints
Newspapers
Deledda Lettercopy Registers
Villamarina PES Fund
Studies and research