06. Latin American and Caribbean Collections

Photographs, publications, artifacts, and other materials related to Panama and the Panama Canal Zone during construction.

Photographs of the Colonia Baron Hirsch, primarily of the Jewish settlers, in Argentina.

Laura Mabel (Byram) Brooking, daughter of Fred Byram, locomotive engineer in Panama, grew up in the Canal Zone during the years of its construction. This collection contains photographs, publications, artifacts, and postcards detailing people and places in the Zone during this period, including depictions of daily life, transportation, buildings, and the regional landscape.

A letterbook containing copies of letters written by cattle rancher and financier Bernabé Sánchez of Cuba between 1898 and 1900.

News clippings and memorabilia collected by Maury A. Bromsen related to the centennial celebration for José Toribio Medina in 1952.

Correspondence, writings, and other materials created by Platt Hiram Crosby while living in Peru, primarily pertaining to Peruvian and South American history.

Scrapbook documenting the development of the Marítima Parreño port facilities in Santiago de Cuba during the 1920s and 1930.

Letters written by B. S. Hile to his family while he is living and employed in Havana, Cuba.

The William Crosbie Estate Papers include correspondence concerning his estate and also his agent/manager, John Otto Bayer's land in Antigua.

Newspaper clippings, contents of an official press packet, and photographs from reporter Robert N. Pierce's trip to Cuba shortly after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.