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The Arturo Artalejo Collection contains audio recording materials of Cuban radio personality Arturo Artalejo. These include tapes, reels, and a vinyl record of radio shows and recorded performances featuring Artalejo and other Cuban personalities.

The Omar Valliant Papers contain audiovisual materials, including recordings of the programs Mientra el Mundo Gira and Viendo a Biondi​.

The Antonia Rey and Andrés Castro Papers are comprised of photographs, photograph albums, clippings, and other ephemera related to the life and career of Antonia Rey and Andrés Castro.

This collection is comprised of a scrapbook titled "Juicios, Críticas, Elógios, Artículos" 1889-1936. It also contains clippings collected by Zamora, a resident of Havana, Cuba.

The Merici Academy Collection documents the experiences of students of Merici Academy, a private, Catholic elementary and secondary school for girls. Established in Havana by American Ursuline nuns, the school operated from 1941 to 1961, when it was closed by the revolutionary government.

The collection includes yearbooks, photographs, programs, newsletters, awards, pins, medals, banners, CDs, a straw bonnet hat and beanie worn for school holidays, and the standard school uniform.

The Julio Hernández Rojo collection is comprised of original drawings and works on paper by Julio Hernández Rojo. The collection also contains his death sentence while in prison in Cuba.

The Omar J. Cuan Collection contains working papers for Omar J. Cuan's Master's thesis on Fulgencio Batista, including Cuban periodicals from the 1940s to the 1960s and photocopies of CIA reports and United States' State Department documents that aided in his research.

The Ana Rosa Núñez Papers contain both the personal papers of, and material collected by, Cuban librarian Ana Rosa Núñez. It includes articles, papers and newspaper columns written by Núñez, correspondence, postcards, photos, and books. Also included are manuscripts of poems and papers by her, awards, curriculum vitae, poems dedicated to her, and a signed Bible gifted to her. Further materials include scripts, operas, musical liberettos, mini-books of poetry, correspondence from Lydia Cabrera, Juan Ramon Jiménez, and others, audiovisual materials, and posters.

The Fermín Peraza collection includes clippings, articles, and other archival material written by and about Cuban librarian Fermín Peraza (1907-1969). These clippings were sent to him from Cuba by his secretary, Juana Fonollosa de Peris, and donated to the University of Miami Libraries in 1969. The collection also includes documents, reports, photographs, correspondence, honors and awards donated by his wife, Elena Peraza.

The Revista Cubana records contain personal papers of Cuban historian Carlos Ripoll, as well as documents pertaining to the publication of the Revista Cubana. Included are correspondence, both personal and professional, subscription lists, publication content, scholarly essays and reports, library material, articles on Cuban library practices, and a plaque of earth from Dos Rios, Cuba, gifted to Ripoll from Luis Garcia Pascual.

The collection consists of photocopies of articles about the Dumois family and the heritage of the Banes Municipality in the Province of Holguín in Cuba.

These papers document Inés Segura Bustamante's (1919-2002) multiple professional, political and artistic activities. She was a clinical psychologist, member of Directorio Estudiantil, writer, painter, composer and lyricist. Segura Bustamante worked as a professor of psychology at the University of Havana. She left Cuba after the Communist Revolution and she continued her work as a psychologist and writer in the U.S, where she authored several books. Segura Bustamante studied music and piano and wrote a significant amount of songs. She also studied painting and some of her pictorial works are held in the Lowe Art Museum in Miami.

The bulk of the papers consists of manuscripts of musical scores, song lyrics and writings on children's psychological development. The materials also include clippings, typescripts and photographs of the "Directorio Estudiantil Universitario 1930," clippings and reports of "Junta Patriótica Cubana," correspondence, clippings of articles on Cuba and Cuban exiles, articles by Segura Bustamante and about her, manuscripts of her poems, a copy of "Bohemia," books annotated by Segura Bustamante, a manuscript of "Cuba Siglo XX y la generación de 1930" and a manuscript of a book on child's psychology.

The collection documents Georgina Shelton's involvement in Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club, Havana, Cuba are the most important ones in this collection. Materials also include articles about and by Hilda Perera, postcards of Mexico from 1920, programs from John J. Koubek Memorial Center, clippings, correspondence and newspaper from 1876.

The papers document activities of Dr. Jose G. Simón, who was a lawyer in Cuba and Associate Professor in Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. The materials include a booklet titled Elena Mederos: Símbolo de Patriotismo y Libertad discussing Mederos' feminist views and her fight for women's rights. The materials also consist of clippings, correspondence relating to Simón's work for the Old Dominion University, copies of articles about Fidel Castro, job referral office for Hispanics in Norfolk, Guantánamo; a book by Simón about Spanish language and photocopies of Hispania, a journal devoted to teaching of Spanish and Portuguese.

The Manuel Antonio Varona Papers contain the personal papers of Cuban politican and counterrevolutionary Tony Varona. They include interviews and articles by and about him, as well as books and pamphlets authored by him, a curriculum vitae, correspondence, photographs, speech transcripts, and documents from Frente Revolucionario Cubano.

The Charles W. White Collection contains music scores by the 20th century Cuban composer Alejandro Garcia Caturla, as well as pamphlets, posters, audiovisual material and concert programs related to his work. It also includes notes and correspondence produced by Mr. Charles White while he was writing Caturla’s biography.

Other contents in the collection include music scores and documents related to Cuban composers who were Caturla’s contemporaries. Collection is arranged in three series, series 1 includes all music scores, series 2 includes all documents, and series 3 includes all audiovisual material.

The Elena Zayas Collection contains the personal papers of Elena and Mario Zayas, including historical documents, articles and news clippings, correspondence, data on Cuban names, sayings, and music, documents from Club Leones Cubanos in New York City, teaching materials, and Elena's term papers from Columbia University.

The Rafael Miguel Zayas Collection contains the personal papers of Cuban sugar industrialist Rafael Miguel Zayas. It includes articles, essays and data on the Cuban sugar industry before and after the Revolution, as well as data on US and world sugar, Gaceta pages, government documents, and correspondence. Also included is a vinyl disc.

The collection contains correspondence with Fidel Castro; correspondence and interviews with American and Latin American presidents and political figures; photographs; and memorabilia collected by Luis Conte Agüero.