Vicos Collection
About this collection
This collection includes digital surrogates of around 2,000 images resulting from a collaboration between North American social scientists and households in the northern Peruvian highlands.
Historical context
In the first decades after World War II, Cornell University sponsored applied social science research designed to foster social change in several regions of the developing world. One of these enterprises took place at Hacienda Vicos in the Callejon de Huaylas region of Peru. What came to be called the Cornell-Peru Program was designed to help the families who resided on the hacienda (Vicosinos) make the transition from serfdom to Peruvian citizenship. As conceived by Allan R. Holmberg and continued by his successors, these transformations could only take place by working within the framework of Peruvian institutions and the Vicosino value system. A consequence of this design was the collection of the copious, detailed information that now resides in the University Archives.
Using the collection
For more information about this collection, please contact rareref@cornell.edu.
More information
- Collection steward
- Evan Earle, Peter J. Thaler University Archivist
- Metadata creation
- Cornell University Library
- Funding
- Academic Technologies Faculty Innovation Grants
- Credits
- This collection overview was last reviewed in 2025.
- Collection sources