Caribbean and South American ephemera collection

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Caribbean and South American ephemera collection

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Extent

23 boxes and 2 oversized flat items

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Scope and content

This collection contains fragmentary texts and images documenting cultural expressions from the Caribbean and South America. Many of the transitory materials grouped under ephemera include posters, postcards, leaflets, tracts, special editions, programs and menus published in countries such as the Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Curaçao Grenada, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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Conditions governing access

The collection is open for research.

Physical access

Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.

Technical access

Conditions governing reproduction

University of Miami does not own copyright. It is incumbent on the user to obtain copyright from the original authors.

Languages of the material

  • English
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Scripts of the material

  • Latin

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CAAD Items purchased with the support of the Florida Blue Cross Blue Shield Grant, Summer 2013.

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