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Cordovés and Bolaños Families Collection
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Cordovés and Bolaños Families Collection

Cordovés and Bolaños Families Collection

  • CHC0398
  • Collection
  • 1878-1999

The Cordovés & Bolaños Families Collection contains letters, clippings, documents, and photographs from Cuba's Wars of Independence and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

The collection contains materials from the Cuban Wars of Independence, including signed letters from famous Cuban statesmen of the period. A separate series contains articles and photographs relating to the Bay of Pigs invasion, as well as photos of Fidel Castro in a meeting with Pedro Tinoco, then-president of the Central Bank of Venezuela. The third series contains genealogical materials, namely photographs, family trees, and investigative research for the Bolaños, Cordovés and Mestre families.

Mestre, Julio Angel

Cuban Independence Wars

The Cuban Independence Wars series consists of autographed letters from prominent Cuban figures of the Independence Wars of 1868-1878 and 1895-1898 and a copy of the "Pacto de Zanjón" (Zanjon Treaty), 1878. Some of the most important letters included in this series are eight signed letters from Major General Antonio Maceo to Brigadier José María Aguirre, Chief of the Division of Havana during the Cuban Invasion from "Oriente to "Occidente' in 1896; a signed letter by Tomás Estrada Palma, the first president of the Republic of Cuba; an autographed personal letter dated 1904 from Generalísimo Máximo Gómez, General Commander in Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army; and a letter signed by Carlos J. Finlay, the doctor who discovered that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever.

Genealogical Materials

This series contains clippings, copies of historical family documents and photographs for the Bolaños, Cordovés and Mestre families. The series also contains information on Joaquin Infante and other famous Cubans who played a role in the history of Venezuela, Julio Mestre's country of exile.

Julio A. Mestre Papers

Included in this series are newspaper clippings and photographs of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a photograph of Fidel Castro in a meeting with Pedro Tinoco, former president of the Central Bank of Venezuela; and a copy of the magazine The Nation from 13 April 1964 containing the article, "Bay of Pigs: The Unanswered Questions," by Jean Edward Smith.