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Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0598
Abstract
Photograph album consisting of 27 black and white silver prints, each approximately 8 x 10", of Cuba. Scenes include landscapes, city scapes, and genre scenes. Each photograph is accompanied by a glassine leaf with typed photo descriptions. Of particular note are photographs of both the sinking and raising of the USS Maine. Also includes a poem written by Irene Wright, who may have been the owner of the album. Wright was an American historian who spent time in Havana as a writer for the...
Dates:
circa 1911
Collection
Identifier: 0526
Abstract
This collection contains over 200 printed maps and small atlases, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, relating to the geographic areas of Latin America, including the Caribbean, and Spain and Portugal. Most are not widely held by other libraries, and some are unique to USC.
Dates:
1559 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1800s-1990s
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058433310]
Identifier: 0546
Abstract
Collection consists of a bound scrapbook of reports and other materials, titled Alguns Factos da Politica Interna da Republica Cubana, written by the Portuguese consul-general Euclides Goulart da Costa.
Dates:
1931
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058597981]
Identifier: 0508
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains printed documents and publications related to Cuban labor from the 1930s to 1950. There are documents related to the Consejo Ordinario Nacional (1950) and the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Azucareros; typescript copies of governmental agreements, laws, and decrees from entities including the Comisión Nacional de Salarios Mínimos and the Secretario del Trabajo; and a commemorative booklet for the third Congreso Obrero Cacional Industria Electrica held...
Dates:
1925 - 1950
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058433328]
Identifier: 0524
Abstract
Collection consists of vintage postcards featuring city and country scenes of late 19th and early 20th century Cuba.
Dates:
1902 - 1903; 1953
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058047052]
Identifier: 0578
Abstract
The Henry Knight Dyer and Joel Francis Talbot correspondence consists of a bound book of letters written by Henry Knight Dyer and Joel Francis Talbot to their wives, Caroline Price Dyer and Ella Talbot, during a 1903 trip to Cuba and the Bahamas. Henry "Harry" Knight Dyer (1847-1911) and Joel Francis "Frank" Talbot were both executives at Dennison & Co., a paper novelties and stationery company. At the time that these letters were written, Dyer was the president of the company and Talbot...
Dates:
1903
Collection
Identifier: 0511
Abstract
This small collection contains sheet music of Latin American popular and folk music dating from the late 19th century. There are 44 pieces representing eight countries: Argentina (1 item), Cuba (4 items), Guatemala (7 items), Honduras (1 item), Mexico (21 items), Nicaragua (1 item), Spain (5 items), and the United States (4 items), as well as one international volume published by Uniao Pan-Americana.
Dates:
late 19th century-1994
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275059586587]
Identifier: 0507
Abstract
This collection consists of the materials from the non-profit educational organization Comité La Verdad Sobre Cuba, The Truth About Cuba Committee, operating under the name Movimiento Anticomunista Catolico Unido.
Dates:
1964 - 1970
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058433963]
Identifier: 0556
Abstract
This collection consists of journal entries, letters, and publications related to the Spanish-American War.
Dates:
1898; 1983 - 1998
Collection
Identifier: 0579
Abstract
The Miguel L. Talleda papers consist of correspondence, essays, photographs, research files, collected publications, and other material collected and/or created by Miguel Luis Talleda (1919-2017). Talleda was born in Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba on June 14, 1919. In 1962, Talleda arrived in the United States as a political refugee with his family. Talleda authored the book Alpha 66 y su Histórica Tarea on the anti-communist organization, Alpha 66, formed by...
Dates:
1962 - 2017