Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Juan A. del Regato Collection
Date(s)
- 1929-1940 (Creation)
Extent
5 Boxes (3.52 linear feet)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Juan A. del Regato was one of several hundred Cuban medical students expelled from the University of Havana in 1927 due to protests against President Gerardo Machado. Approximately 130 of these students relocated and continued their studies at the Université de Paris in France. Many of these students returned to Cuba and acquired great prestige as physicians.
Juan A. del Regato graduated from the Université de Paris in 1937 and came to the United States in 1938. He collected the theses of several of his fellow Cuban scholars in France, and donated them to the Otto G. Richter Library in 1988.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Juan A. del Regato collection consists of theses, publications, awards, lectures, and general information pertaining to several Cuban medical students who graduated from the Université de Paris from 1929 to 1940, among other material found in Juan A. del Regato's personal papers.
System of arrangement
This collection is arranged into four series:
Series 1 (Box 1): Theses by Cuban students of medicine who graduated from Université de Paris from 1929 through 1940.
Series 2 (Box 2): Publications by and about Juan A. del Regato.
Series 3 (Box 3): Miscellaneous: awards, lectures, diplomas, and general information about the Cuban students of medicine from Université de Paris.
Series 4 (Boxes 4-5): Materials related to Carlos J. Finlay. They include correspondence, biographical data, photographs, and research papers about yellow fever.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Juan A. del Regato Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Languages of the material
- English
- French
- Spanish
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Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Juan A. del Regato, 1988.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
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Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sources used
Archivist's note
Collection-level record created by Esperanza Bravo de Varona, 1998.
Updated by María R. Estorino, March 2003; Fernando Espino, November 2013; and Juan A. Villanueva and Amanda Moreno, January 2021.