The Abraham Schwaczkin collection consists primarily of Jewish cantorial sheet music and lyrics.Also included are a birth certificate and marriage certificates of Schwaczkin, a 1953 copy of the B'nai B'rith messenger newspaper, a catalog...
The papers document personal and professional activities of Adria Catalá Casey, "Cuban Shirley Temple," who was also a dancer in Grupo Folklórico. Grupo Folklórico was established by Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba in 195...
The papers of the ALA (Agencia Latinoamericana) are divided in 3 major categories: the articles written by the contributors to the ALA (collected during almost 40 years), their correspondence, and the newspaper clippings of those articles.The writ...
The Alan Crockwell Collection contains a variety of materials from different sources that document the history of Miami, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and greater Miami-Dade County. Much of the content is related to Ralph Middleton Munroe and his f...
Allison B. Curry, Jr. served as Director of Public Service for Coral Gables from 1934 to 1939. Between 1939 to 1942 he was promoted to city manager. In 1942 he left to hold this same post for the city of Miami. From 1946 to the end of his career h...
The Alpha 66 Records document the political, propaganda, paramilitary, and administrative activities of the organization as collected by Andrés Nazario Sargén, one of it's founders and longtime leaders. The Records include correspondence, ci...
This collection consists of the papers of Althea “Gerry” Lister from 1935 to 1997. It contains: biographical information pertaining to Lister’s 45 year career at Pan American World Airways; “Along Air Avenues,” an unpublished manuscript that provi...
A typescript by Rudi Franke in which he narrates the journey to France of a German infantry during World War II. The document also includes photographs, maps and hand drawn sketches.
Andrew Giel visited Cuba as a tourist 10 times between September 1955 and December 1959, traveling as far as Trinidad in Santi Spíritus. Fifty years later, Mr. Giel printed 8 x 10 enlargements from the original transparencies. Those prints are fou...
The 120-page report was written by E. Earl Wilson, M.A.I. and E. D. Keefer, M.A.I. for the University of Miami in 1953. The purpose of this appraisal was to estimate the market value of the properties of the University of Miami as of May 15, 1953...
This collection includes regional and historic maps, original drawings, plans, elevations, photographs, and blueprints of residential and commercial architecture, community project plans, city/town plans, historic restoration plans and aerial phot...
The papers include letters from various prominent Cuban figures; among them Tomás Estrada Palma, Salvador Cisneros, Lola R. de Tió, Armando Menocal, Mario Menocal and others. The materials also consist of newspaper clippings about sugar industry ...
The 40-page publication depicts Arthur Vining “Art” Davis's life with photographs and press articles, who was an American industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. It was created by The Arthur Vining Davis Foudations for their Board of Tr...
The Ava Moore Parks photograph collection consists of images of Cuban exile owned restaurants, stores and other businesses in Miami in the 1960s.Bio:Arva Moore Parks (b. 1939) is a historian, author, preservationist, and community leader from Miam...
The records document activities of Asociación Cubana de Mujeres Universitarias. The materials include minutes, financial reports, by-laws, correspondence, election advertisements, newspaper clippings, invitations and photographs.
The papers document the activities of the employees of El Encanto, an upscale department store in Havana before Castro's regime. The materials include photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, correspondence, diplomas, advertising, tear s...
The collection documents activities of Atalá Duarte Carranza in capacity of a teacher. The materials consist of predominantly photographs of Atalá Duarte Carranza during her school years in Cuba, her professional career as a teacher in Distrito E...
The Bailey Diffie Papers include manuscripts, notes, copies, correspondence, classroom materials, bibliographies and other materials related to Diffie's research, teaching and publications on Latin America and the Caribbean.
John Barrett (1866 – 1938) was a United States diplomat and journalist and one of the early directors general of the Pan American Union (currently known as the Organization of American States). This collection consists of photographs of Latin Amer...
The Bob Simms Collection documents the life and activities of Robert H. Simms in the black communities in Coconut Grove and Miami and reflects his work with the Community Relations Board and the Defense Race Relations Institute. The Collection als...