06. Latin American and Caribbean Collections

The Lillian Guerra Collection includes photographs, historical documents, ephemeral objects, and manuscripts from Cuba.

The collection, which spans the second half of the nineteenth century, includes 28 documents. Some are letters of slave owners to the priest of the church of Montserrat in Havana, Cuba; others are death certificates of slaves, runaway slaves, and free persons of color issued by the Real Hospital de Caridad de San Felipe y Santiago.

A selection of documents (on microfilm) from the private library of Edmond Mangonès, a Haitian collector and historian of the early 20th Century. Most of the documents date from before and after the Haitian revolution.

Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies together with financial accounts and pay warrants.

Correspondence and other records documenting politics in Haiti in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

"Observations Importantes" by anonymous sugar traders in Nantes, France, and an "Avis" written by the deputies of commerce of Brittany.

An 1816 manuscript entitled, "Observations de la Chambre de Commerce... Marseille," which deals with the commerce of Marseille, particularly with the French colonies in the Americas.

Two letters written by anonymous author to Bartolomé Guzmán in Bolivia, pertaining to political developments, the South American Wars of Independence, Peru and the Río de la Plata.

Catechisms and sermons by Jesuit priests of Bolivia in Spanish and Aymara languages.

Collection of 22 handwritten letters pertaining to potential sales of various plantations and holdings, including slaves, in St. Domingue (present-day Haiti).