The bulk of material consists of bonds of Cuban Railroad Company and the Republic of Cuba National Bank, and money printed in Cuba before 1959. The material also includes Havana Yacht Club magazine from February 1955 .
The Rosario Hirart Collection contains documents related to Cuban anthropologist Lydia Cabrera.
It includes photographs, illustrations, correspondence, and handwritten notes by Lydia Cabrera and Teresa de la Carra. It also includes published articles and a copy of Vanguardia magazine.
This collection is comprised of articles, clippings, genealogical charts, pamphlets, the biography of José Valdés-Fauli, and the last will and testament of José de la Luz y Caballero.
Records document official activities of Count of Gálvez Historical Society established in Miami in 1988 by Cuban exiles and Spanish personalities living in Miami. Its purpose is to make people of the United States and Florida know the role of Spain and Spanish speaking countries, their peoples, culture and civilization, as well as to provide information on discovery and settlement of Florida. In addition, its purpose is promoting Spanish traditions, history and culture. The materials consist of official correspondence, Public Acts, information about Spanish and Cuban History presented on various conferences, clippings and folders discussing Spanish castles, museums, cities and achievements of King Carlos III, as well as clippings about historical research of Dr. Carlos Fernandes-Shaw, the information about conferences, which took place at Koubek Center, Articles of Incorporation, by-laws, corporate and tax documents, financial records including budgets, minutes of meetings of directors, treasury correspondence, membership forms and materials with historical research for speeches.
The Gabriel García Galán Collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, manuscripts, musical scores, awards and other documents related to Dr. Gabriel García Galán.
Most notably the collection contains a 1929 letter to Dr. García Galán from Enrique José Varona and three manuscripts of Gobierno Superior Civil de la Isla de Cuba from 1869.
The Manuel Pereiras García playscripts collection consists of playscripts authored or translated by Cuban-born playwright Manuel Pereiras García between 1977 and 1991.
The Magali O. Acosta Collection contains parts and scores for arrangements by the Cuban composer Rodrigo Prats, written between 1956 and 1960. Acosta and Prats collaborated on a series of dance performances called "Ballet Español", which included works of Ernesto Lecuona and Agustín Lara, among others, when they both worked for the Sylvia M. Goudie dance studio in Havana.
An important supplement to this collection is the 10-year retrospective of the Studio Sylvia M. Goudie, "Memoria: 1949-1959", in which Acosta writes about her collaborations with Prats.
The Alicia García collection documents Cuban history through primary source periodicals published in Cuba and in the diaspora. Titles include Bohemia, Bohemia Libre, Revolución y Cultura, and Verde Olivo.
The collection contains scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, negatives, programs, audio reels, 8mm and Super 8 film, and theater ephemera related to the career of actress and singer Nattacha Amador.
The Ambassador Paul L. Cejas collection contains manuscripts related to the Cuban War of Independence, collected by Ambassador Paul L. Cejas. Books and pamphlets have been cataloged separately.
The collection contains a dataset of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service regarding the June 16, 2017 announcement of changes in U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba by the Trump administration.
The Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the hashtags #CubanUS, #Cuba, #Trump, #CubaTrump, and #CubaEsNuestra between June 19, 2017 and July 5, 2017.
The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.
The collection contains photographs, audiovisual materials, and documents related to the professional career of Martha Flores, a Cuban radio host, journalist, and singer active in Miami from the 1960s to 2020.
The collection contains one letter from Julio Yelua [?] to Alberto Vazquez, 1960; six photographs, including two of Varadero Beach (1918-1921), a photograph of the University of Havana School of Medicine Class of 1923 standing in front of “Kasalta” restaurant in Havana (1940), two group portraits, and an image of the Florida Havana Railroad Car Ferry (undated); and one reproduction of the seal of the University of Havana. The items were inherited by the donor from her great-uncle, Dr. Adolfo Bock.
The Carlos Enrique Prado Papers are comprised of sketchbooks, designs for Miami-Dade Art in Public Spaces, and a sculpture designed for the Ronald Reagan Equestrian Center at Tropical Park created by Miami-based Cuban artist Carlos Enrique Prado.
The 2019 Helms-Burton Act Twitter Archive collection contains a dataset of tweets collected from Twitter microblogging platform in response to the Trump administration's announcement that the suspension of the extension of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act would not be continued. Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 (known as the “Helms-Burton Act”) provides a cause of action under U.S. federal law through which U.S. nationals may sue any person who “traffics” in property that was expropriated from a U.S. national by the Cuban Government on or after January 1,1959. On April 17, 2019, the Trump administration announced that the cause of action made available under Title III, which has been suspended since 1996, would become fully effective as a basis to initiate litigation before the United States courts as of May 2, 2019.
During the announcement, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: #HelmsBurton, #BayofPigs, and #CubaPolicy between April 18 and April 25.
The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.
The data archive is available for download to the University of Miami community via the University of Miami scholarly repository. The data is presented in JSON structured text files. For information on accessing the archive, see the “conditions governing access” section of this finding aid.