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.

Correspondence, dated 1905 to 1911, pertaining to Page's position as the engineer in charge of constructing a water supply and sewer system in Cienfuegos, Cuba.

Letters from John Parker in Havana, Cuba, to his employer, A.C. Johnstone, describing business in Cuba.

Photographs taken by Charles R. Skeels in Chinandega, Nicaragua, in 1927.

Photographs highlighting Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado's visit to Venezuela alongside important Cuban cabinet members in June 1960, and other moments of Cuban and Venezuelan relations, including the Venezuelan celebration of the 26 of July Movement in 1960.

The collection consists of twenty-seven photographs of the 2018 commemoration of the school Secundaria 15 Albert Einstein’s founding. The school was founded by Max Shein in 1948.

This collection consists of twelve manuscript documents bound in a single volume detailing the military career of don Antonio de Acuña y Cabrera, a Spanish infantry captain. All twelve documents are written in Spanish and reference events from 1522 to 1647.