Showing 1522 results

The Juana de Arcos Babun Collection contains several scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and photographs that Juana de Arcos Babun kept relating to the Babun family. Much of the collection focuses on Lincoln, Santiago, and Teofilo Babun Franco, Juana's nephews who served in Brigade 2506.

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​.

An ongoing collection of comics and zines added to the holdings of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, with a focus on zines produced in and/or about the Caribbean and Latin America, including diaspora communities. Zines are typically independent and self published booklets popular in underground subcultures. The first zines were fanzines, started in the early 20th century by science fiction fans documenting the genre. The format truly took off with the punk rock movement of the 1970s, as a do-it-yourself spirit inspired legions of underground punk fans to start raw but vibrant journals documenting the nascent music scenes in their communities. Zine topics would broaden throughout the 1980s and 1990s to cover a variety of subject areas, from comics to anarchist politics to women’s rights, to more mundane subjects like dumpster diving, alternative fashions, tattoo art, and much more. Despite the expansion of topics, the format usually remained the same—self-published booklets printed in limited editions and typically produced with a photocopy machine.

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.

Sweat Records began as a local independent music store in Miami in 2005, conceived by DJ and club promoter, Lauren (Lolo) Reskin, and by former WVUM DJ and public defense attorney, Sara Yousuf. It served as not only a record store but a public event space and coffee shop, catering to the eclectic music scene in South Florida. The store was forced to temporarily relocate to the back of Churchill's pub in 2005 after the destruction caused from Hurricane Wilma and eventually moved to its new permanent location near Little Haiti. Sara Yousuf also left her role as co-owner to pursue a full-time career as a public defense attorney in 2006 and was replaced by Jason Jimenez who came onboard as Lolo's new partner in 2007. Sweat Records continues to this day to offer a wide variety of performances and events, featuring both budding local artists and veteran rock bands, and to contribute heavily to Miami's thriving music culture.

The Sweat Records collection contains archival material documenting the history of the record store, including newspaper articles, magazines, ephemera, pamphlets, company records, administrative files, personal papers from Lolo Reskin, and audio-visual material. Items are arranged categorically by series and material type.

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 Robert Huff collection contains exhibit catalogs, postcards, flyers, gallery guides, other ephemera documenting South Florida artists and art-related events in Miami, and materials from the Gloria Luria Gallery, the National Gallery of Sciences, the Gallery of 24, and the Miami Book Fair. The collection also includes materials documenting South Florida sculpture and sculptors, along with many items relating to the work of South-Florida artist Robert Huff and an oversized Rauschenberg Tropic cover, signed "Bob."

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 Borscht Film Festival is a semi-annual film festival held in Miami, Florida. The festival's mission is "to commission and showcase films by emerging artists that tell Miami stories going beyond the typical portrayal of a beautiful but vapid party town, forging the cinematic identity of the city." Their collection includes ephemera, flyers, postcards, printed materials, posters, 3D objects, and other associated items pertaining to the Borscht Film Festival.

Conceived in 1932 by the original Orange Bowl Committee, the Orange Bowl was created as a popular tourism attraction for the New Year's Festival in Miami that would attract national publicity and bring more businesses and money to South Florida. This venture proved successful as the Orange Bowl celebration grew in both size and popularity, becoming a national extravaganza with their lavish parades, annual football games, and beauty pageants, all in an effort to create the "world's greatest half-time spectacle."

The first football game ever put on by the committee was in 1932 between the University of Miami Hurricanes and Manhattan College from New York City in what was then called the Festival of Palms Bowl. In 1935, the festival was renamed as the Orange Bowl and started featuring college football teams to participate based on their national rankings rather than offering a guaranteed position, and it was recognized by the NCAA as the first "official" Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl stadium was created in 1937 to accommodate the game as well as the Miami Dolphins home games and several Super Bowls up until it was demolished in 2008, but it gained a prolific reputation as a local attraction during its lifespan in south Florida.

The Orange Bowl Records contains documents, financial and administrative files, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera, pamphlets, newsclippings, audiovisual material, and 3D objects pertaining to the Orange Bowl Committee and their archives.

Located in the heart of Coral Gables, ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries have served as a launching pad for budding young artists in South Florida and Latin America for over 44 years. This collection contains several publications and gallery catalogs that discuss many of the exhibits Virginia Miller and her colleagues have helped pioneer.

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.