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Eduardo Martín Sansaricq was born in Yaguajay, Province of Las Villas, Cuba, on July 22, 1875. He was involved in the Cuban Independence War since its beginning. Later, he joined the Mambi Army on October 7, 1895. He was wounded and imprisoned by the guerrilla of Yaguajay. Later, he escaped and rejoined the Ejercito Libertador in the same Brigada de Remedios.

Martín Sansaricq had an active role in the seizure of the heliograph of Arroyo Blanco, the last combat of importance of the Cuban armed forces under the command of Generalísimo Máximo Gómez. He had the rank of captain and was promoted to the rank of commander in chief of Yaguajay by Máximo Gómez, who entrusted Martín Sansaricq the task of forming police force to maintain order in the region.

At the end of the Cuban Independence War, Martín Sansaricq enlisted in the Guardia Rural in the towns of Trinidad, Cruces and Yaguajay. In 1931, he was appointed captain of the Leoncio Vidal Regiment in Santa Clara, Las Villas, and later in Yaguajay. Martín Sansaricq retired from the army in February 1934.

After his retirement he was very active in the Asociación de Veteranos de la Independencia and the Asociación de Caballeros Católicos de Cuba. He died in Yaguajay on October 24, 1959.

Teatro Avante is a nonprofit theater organization focused on preserving Hispanic theater and culture. The group organizes and produces the annual award-winning Hispanic Theater Festival in Miami, Florida and participates in international theater festivals across the world.

Lolita Berrio was a Cuban actress born on January 25, 1910, in Argentina. She was the daughter of Spanish actor José Berrio. Berrio and her family moved to Havana, Cuba, when she was very young, and she soon began to establish herself in theater circles. She worked for a multitude of theater companies such as the Principal of Comedy, Grenet (Teatro Regina, 1928), and Galarraga (Teatro Actualidades, 1929), among others. She also did a stint in writer, director, and businessman Eulogio Velasco’s company of zarzuelas and operettas, the genre of which flourished in Cuba between the late 1920s and early 1940s. In addition, Berrio frequently appeared on the radio and actively participated in the development of Cuban television from its foundation. In terms of theater roles, she is most remembered for the roles of Doña Rosa Sandoval and Charito Alarcón, both from the zarzuela interpretation of Cirilo Villaverde’s novel, “Cecilia Valdés.” Her most noted film roles are: Yo soy el heroe (1940); Yo soy el hombre (1952); and It Happened in Havana (1938). She was also celebrated for work as a choreographer in the early 1930s. In the 1960s, Berrio immigrated to the United States, settling in Miami, and appeared on television and for the arts and cultural promotor Sociedad Pro-Arte Grateli. Berrio died in Miami on March 30, 1991.

Concepción "Concha" Alzola was a Cuban writer, journalist and professor of children's literature and folklore. Throughout her career she published more than ten books and pamphlets on a wide range of topics, most notably on children's folklore and linguistics.

Carlos Loveira (1882-1928) was a Cuban journalist and naturalistic author born in Santa Clara, Cuba. Loveira was orphaned at age nine and moved to New York with his mother's family in 1895. He returned to Cuba in 1898 to fight for the country's independence from Spain, and worked as an interpreter for American troops stationed in Cuba during the U.S. occupation.

An anarchist, Loveira was heavily involved in the Cuban socialist and labor movements. After working in the railroad industry throughout Latin America from 1903, he founded the Liga Cubana de Empleados de Ferrocarriles in 1910 and the newspaper El Ferrocarrilero(1909-1911). He moved from Camagüey to Sagua La Grande after the union failed. Loveira also founded the short-lived newspaper Gente Nuevaand the magazine Cauterios.

Exiled to Mexico in 1913, the author spent the remainder of his life traveling between Mexico, Cuba and the United States working as a labor organizer and lobbyist consulting with the United Nations.

His novels include Los inmorales(1910), Generales y doctores (1920), Los ciegos (1922), La última lección(1924) and Juan Criollo (1927).

María Antonia Avilés Casanova was born in Cuba in 1912. She was a daughter of José M. Avilés and Rosa Casanova, aristocratic and wealthy family of Cienfuegos, Cuba. Later, the family relocated to Havana.

Her mother, Rosa Casanova Avilés fluently spoke English, French and Spanish. She raised her family in a bilingual environment. One of her children, Marianita, as everybody used to call her, spoke English and Spanish too. She graduated from Ruston Academy, in Havana during the 40s. Marianita liked to do art work, and her brother José liked to do art work as well. They liked music and all related to the art world. they were artists. Some of their works are listed in this collection. After she graduated from Ruston Academy, Marianita started to work in some libraries in Havana and then as a hostess at the Hilton Hotel.

Marianita never got married. As well as many Cubans, she left Cuba when Fidel Castro seized the power in Cuba in 1959. She landed at Miami International Airport during the 60s as a Cuban exile and immediately she started to work at the Archdioceses of Miami. Marianita was the assistant of Monsignor Orlando Fernández at Saint Francis of Sales, Miami Beach, Florida, and later, she worked for the Youth Center. She was a deeply religious person. She was involved in several activities related with the church. She also worked with Archbishop Edward McCarthy and Monsignor Bryan Walsh, helping the children who arrived from Cuba during 1960.

Marianita lived serving and helping people. She spent her last years in Miami, Florida where she died in 1997.

Guy Pérez-Cisneros (1915-1953) was a Cuban diplomat and art critic active in the 20th century.

Born in Paris, Pérez-Cisneros was educated in Spain, France, and Cuba, graduating with a doctorate from the University of Havana and later studying journalism.

Pérez-Cisneros held various posts in Cuba’s diplomatic corps from 1934 until his death in 1953, while also maintaining his interest in the art world. He was named interim head of the Cuban State Department’s Office of the League of Nations and secretary general of the Instituto Nacional de Artes Plásticas (1939). Major writings include Presencia de ocho pintores (1937) and Características de la evolución de la pintura en Cuba (published posthumously in 1959).

Most notably, Pérez-Cisneros was secretary general of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations Preparatory Committee (1945-1946). In 1949 he was named spokesman for the Cuban commission of UNESCO and Cuban delegate to the fourth assembly of the United Nations. Pérez-Cisneros also served as Cuban delegate to the UN Economic and Social Council for the organization’s seventh and eighth assemblies (1952-1953).

He was married to Berta Barreto de los Heros from 1937 until their divorce in 1943. She would later be involved in the freeing of Bay of Pigs political prisoners in the early 1960s. Pérez-Cisneros died unexpectedly in Havana at the age of 38 in 1953.

Antonio Molina is a Cuban exile in Puerto Rico. A painter, historian, art critic, and president of the UNESCO Cultural Center in San Juan, Molina has carefully collected materials from the Cuban diaspora throughout his life.

Visual artist Alberto del Pozo (1945-1992) was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. With his parents, he was exiled to the United States in 1961. He attended Coral Gables High School in Miami and Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. From 1970 to 1975, he worked as a costume and set designer for Brooks Van Horn. Returning to Miami in 1976, he dedicated himself to his art. Del Pozo died in Miami at age 46 in 1992.