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Title
Helen Maynard Ireland Papers
Date(s)
- 1926-1935 (Creation)
Extent
1 Box
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Biographical history
Helen Maynard Ireland was an American woman who moved to Cuba in the 1920s with her husband, a lawyer for the Cuban Cane Sugar Company. She wrote extensively about her experiences in Cuba, and while living there, befriended Rosaila Abreau, a Cuban simian researcher.
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The Helen Maynard Ireland Papers contain the personal writings of Helen Ireland, the wife of Gordon Ireland, a lawyer who worked for the Cuban Sugar Cane Company in the 1920s-1930s.
The collection contains various manuscripts about the couple's life in Cuba, travels through Moron province, and Helen's interactions with Rosalia Abreau, a researcher working with primates in Cuba.
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This collection is open for research.
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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: Helen Maynard Ireland Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
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Purchase, 2014.
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Archivist's note
Collection-level record by Fernando Espino, November 2014. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.