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Level of description
Collection
Title
Peggy Fleming Photograph Collection
Date(s)
- 2000-2002 (Creation)
Extent
2 Boxes
Name of creator
Biographical history
Peggy Fleming (b. 1937) is an award-winning, published photographer with permanent collections around the United States. Fleming earned her Master of Arts in Anthropology from George Washington University in Washington, D.C and in 1988 began working as a professinal photographer. In the early 2000s, she collaborated on the ASSIGNMENT CUBA: 2000 project, organized by the Maine Photographic Workshops and Rockport College in cooperation with the government of Cuba, to document daily life in Cuba at the turn of the 20th century.
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Scope and content
The Peggy Fleming Photograph Collection contains photographs taken by Peggy Fleming and ephemera regarding her work in Cuba. The collection contains mostly black and white photographs taken of everyday people, street scenes, homes, and family life in Cuba during the early 2000s.
The collection contains materials related to Fleming’s Sí Por Cuba project when she was a photographer with the ASSIGNMENT: CUBA 2000, arranged by the Maine Photographic Workshops and Rockport College in cooperation with the government of Cuba. These materials include 1 color print and 39 black and white contact sheets, an inventory of the photos with descriptive information, and ephemera related to the 2002 exhibition of the photographs.
The collection houses additional negatives and contact sheets documenting Fleming’s two weeks in Cuba in 2000, as well as travel documents, a journal Fleming kept on her experiences, letters, and emails related to the trip.
System of arrangement
Original order has been retained.
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Preferred citation: Peggy Fleming Photograph Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Languages of the material
- English
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Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Gifts of Peggy Fleming, 2014 and 2015.
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Related archival materials
Fleming, Peggy Crown Me! Capital Pool Checkers Club. 2010.
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Archivist's note
Collection level record by Rahid Chadid and Natalie Baur, June 2015. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.