Caribbean Documents collection

Collection

Caribbean Documents collection

• 1542-1959 (Creation)

17 boxes and 50 oversized file folders.

This collection includes various types of documents pertaining to the historical and cultural production taking place in the Caribbean. Materials include correspondence, diaries, ledgers, property transactions including slave registers, reports, typescripts, from the various islands of the Caribbean such as Antigua, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Christopher, Trinidad and Tobago from the 16th to the present. The collection is further enhanced by the acquisition of antique maps from cartographers such as Linschoten and Sanson.

This collection is open for research.

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.

Caribbean Documents Collection Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish

• Latin

Selected materials from this collection have been digitized here.

• Historical Documents collection
• Jamaica manuscripts collection
• Caribbean and South American ephemera collection
• Latin American and Caribbean photograph collection
• Latin America Documents collection

Original container list by Marcia Evanson and Grace Castro. Finding aid updated by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 07-24-24.

• Enslavement -- Caribbean Area

• Ludwig, Daniel Keith, 1897-1992 (Subject)
• Shields, Jerry (Subject)

• Documents (object genre)
• Historical maps
• Correspondence » Letters (correspondence)
• Property records
• Registers (lists)
• Typescripts