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Cesar Lancis was a Cuban politican who served as mayor of Pinar del Rio in the early 20th century.

Roberto Daniel Agramonte y Pichardo was a Cuban academic, philosopher, and politician. Born in Villaclara, Cuba in 1904, Agramonte studied law at the University of Havana. Agramonte began his political career in 1947, serving as Cuban ambassador to Mexico until 1948. He was the first Foreign Minister of the Cuban Revolution, but left Cuba for Puerto Rico in 1960.

Roberto Agramone married Concha María de la Concepción del Río y Madueño and the couple had two children. Agramonte passed away in Puerto Rico in 1995.

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.