The Tom Pohrt photograph collection includes photographs from Cuba in the 19th and 20th century collected by Mr. Pohrt: albumen prints, including a group of images from an album dating from 1859 through the early 1860s of the lighthouses of Cuba and attributed to the studio of C.D. Fredricks; daguerreotype, ambrotype, carte de visite, and cabinet card portraits, the earliest dating from about 1845; stereographs taken by George Barnard around 1863; over 200 glass stereographs from the late 1890s to the 1920s; and 35 color slides from the 1940s. Barnard’s images include several prints that are among the earliest known photographs documenting slavery in 19th-century Cuba.
The Tomás Estrada Palma Collection contains materials from a scrapbook donated by the great-grandson of TEP, Tomás Douglas Estrada Palma III. Items that were preserved in the scrapbook include photographs, letters, personal documents, and newspaper clippings. They document primarily the Tomás Andrés Estrada Palma II branch of the Estrada Palma family tree, including some materials related to his wife, Helen Douglas Browne, and her family.
Correspondence includes letters written by TEP, TEP II and other members of the Estrada Palma family. Clippings largely cover the 1906 resignation of TEP from the Cuban presidency and the consequent US military occupation, TEP's death in 1908, as well as events honoring TEP in the years after his death. Also amongst the clippings are articles relating to TEP II's marriage to Helen Douglas Browne in 1910. Other items include documents such as TEP II's report card, marriage certificate, and passport. There are also photographs of TEP, TEP II, and TEP III, as well as photos of other members of the family such as Genoveva Guardiola de Estrada Palma, Candelaria "Candita" Estrada Palma, and Helen (Douglas Browne) Estrada Palma. Of special interest is a photograph of the presidential convoy that traveled with TEP from Bayamo to Havana for his inauguration in 1902 and photographs of the Presidential Palace in Havana taken during TEP's presidency.
Included in this collection is the citizenship certificate of José Guimunde y Martínez, which was signed by TEP. This document was donated by Mirtha Alberto in August 2000 and added to the Tomás Estrada Palma Collection at that time.
The Tomás Fernández Robaina Papers contain manuscripts, bibliographies and audiovisual materials authored by Tomás Fernández Robaina, including drafts of Apuntes para la historia de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí de Cuba, manuscripts relating to the santería orisha Eleggua and other santería practices, as well as articles on Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén's prose and prostitution in Cuba, respectively. The collection also contains a video cassette of a lecture given by Fernández Robaina at Lincoln University in November 1993.
The papers document professional activities of Tomás R. Yanes, an ophthalmologist and a founder of Cuba's Liga Contra la Ceguera (League Against Blindness). Materials include clippings, correspondence, a copy of a book with annotations and photographs.
The 11-page publication Topicos Educacionales contains 11 essays on education in Spanish and English written by Ileana Ros in the 1980s. It was published by Editorial AIP in Miami, Florida.
The University Archives holds 3 copies of the publication.
The 28-page book was written by Rex T. Hall and published in January 1959 by the Instrumental Music Center in Detroit, Michigan. The author is an alumnus (class of 1938) of the University of Miami.
The U.B.C. (United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America) Local 125 records contain historical files relating to the union of carpenters based in Miami, Florida.
Last Night In Cuba is a critically-acclaimed documentary written, filmed, and produced by students in the Documentary Unit of the University of Miami School of Communication. The film examines the experiences of Cuban exiles leaving their homeland, interviewing ten Cubans of different ages and socio-economic backgrounds who fled the island between 1959 and 1963.
Una Austin Week, whose maiden name was Una Austin, was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer performed in London, England in the 1910s. The collection contains professional portrait photographs, concert programs, and press clippings of her performance appeared in newspapers and telegraphs.
The Undergraduate Honors Theses collection contains papers written by University of Miami undergraduate students from 1989 to the present. University Honors (summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude) are determined by a minimum GPA unique to the school or college from which undergraduate students have studied.
This collection contains records of the Undergraduate Student Body Government, including annual reports, newsletters, faculty evaluations, and assorted publications.
University of Miami. Undergraduate Student Body Government
The Unidad Anticomunista Records contain manuscripts and typescripts of Unidad Anticomunista, a Cuban underground group associated the Frente Nacional Democrático that fought against Fidel Castro's rule in Cuba shortly after his rise to power.
This collection consists of five scrapbooks produced by University of Miami's United Blacks Students, an organization dedicated to educating the community at large, uplifting their members and peers, and celebrating African-American culture.
The collection consists of memorandums, correspondence, and a brochure written by the Housing Office of the University of Miami for married students from 1967 to 1972. It also includes several issues of “Married Student News” written by the Married Student Association of the university from 1971 to 1972.
University of Miami Department of Housing and Residential Life
This collection consists of invitations and dedication programs for various buildings in the Coral Gables, Medical, and Marine campuses of the University.
