06. Latin American and Caribbean Collections

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photos, and mementos sent to María Mantilla de Romero regarding her father José Martí.

Correspondence, financial records and stockholders' reports of the Taco Bay Commercial Company in Cuba.

Royal Havana Company was a Spanish company based in Havana, Cuba, which specialized in shipbuilding and trading of tobacco and sugar. This collection includes notes about shipments of tobacco, and a letter penned by Martín de Aróstegui, defending his role as president of Royal Havana Company.

Correspondence to the firm of Sandbach, Tinne & Co. from McInroy, Sandbach & Co., McInroy, Parker & Co., and other affiliates in the Demerara region of British Guiana primarily relating to sugar, molasses, coffee and rum.

This collection includes 25 flyers with poems written by the members of the Creative Writing Workshop El Ciervo Herido. The workshop was founded in Mexico City by the poet Ricardo Yáñez.

The Wagley Papers document anthropological field work in the cultures of South America, especially Guatemala and Brazil.

Manuscripts for three unpublished books on the social ecology of Latin America. Also of interest is a memorandum on agrarian reform in Brazil written in 1952 when Smith served as an advisor to the Brazilian government.

The Crist Papers consist of diaries, correspondence, publication manuscripts, photographs, and reports related to his personal and professional life.

Writings, speeches, correspondence, subject files, reports and photographs of Peter Henry Rolfs, former Dean of the UF College of Agriculture (1915-1920), Director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (1906-1920), and Director of the Escola Superior de Agricultura e Veterinaria, in Viscosa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

Roy C. Craven, Jr. (1924-1996) served as the first director of the UF Gallery. This collection documents Craven's wide-ranging interests in art and culture and highlights the work he did in collecting art and crafting exhibits for the gallery. The collection consists of photographic prints, negatives, and slides featuring images from sites throughout the Americas, India, Indonesia, Europe, and Africa.