06. Latin American and Caribbean Collections

Classification

Identifier: 06

The list below includes the archival and manuscript collections that highlight Haitiana, Caribbean, and Latin America. Some finding aids are available in both English and Spanish. Refer to the Spanish Language links under the "Additional Material" section of the finding aid.

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

A.S. Arnold's Photo Album and Diary of a Trip to Jamaica

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 272

Abstract

Photo album and travel diary documenting a 1904 trip to Jamaica taken by three New York doctors.

Dates: 1904

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

James M. Adams "Pioneering in Cuba" Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 277

Abstract

Bulk of collection deals with the notes and letters of James M. Adams trip and stay in Cuba during the first American colonization attempt of La Gloria. These letters and notes of his experience would later be put into his book Pioneering in Cuba which also is included.

Dates: 1882-1909; Majority of material found within 1899-1901

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Charles A. Hoffman Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 292

Abstract Charles A. Hoffman was a distinguished archaeologist and anthropologist who worked in the American Southwest, Florida and the Caribbean. His areas of interest included eastern Arizona archaeology, mammoth and Native Peoples interactions (big game hunting) and Columbus' first landfall. The collection is comprised of materials primarily related to Florida and the Caribbean, including his field notebooks, publications and research files, photographs, membership and association files,...

Dates: 1958-2005; Majority of material found within 1966-1990

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Rafael Martínez Pupo Papers Relating to Comandos Mambises

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 297

Abstract Rafael Martínez Pupo was a successful business man in Cuba who lost all of his enterprises and belongings when Fidel Castro nationalized private property in 1959. He went into exile to Guatemala. In 1963, the CIA recruited Martínez Pupo to lead a special operations unit of Cuban exiles whose mission was to sabotage strategic targets in Cuba. This unit was known as Comandos Mambises. The collection includes Martínez Pupo's correspondence with Cuban exiles, presidents, news agents, as well as...

Dates: 1959-1984; Majority of material found within 1963-1964

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

José Ignacio Rodríguez Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 306

Abstract

Letters and documents of lawyer who represented clients whose property was seized by the Spanish government as retribution for their support of Cuban independence.

Dates: 1873-1890

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Photos of the Mexican Revolution by Agustín V. Casasola

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 313

Abstract

Two photos embossed with the seal of the renowned photographic studio of Agustín Víctor Casasola. Through his photos, Agustín V. Casasola documented visually the Mexican Revolution.

Dates: Circa 1914

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Valerie Sammons Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 315

Abstract

Newspapers, T-shirts, pamphlets, and photographs gathered or created by Valerie Sammons on a goodwill visit to Grenada in 1983.

Dates: 1983

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

De Mey van Streefkerk Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS Group 081b

Abstract

Reproductions of letters and other documents pertaining to the sugar plantations operated by the De Mey van Streefkerk family in the Dutch colony of Surinam in the West Indies.

Dates: 1725-1830

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida