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Start Over Places Cuba Level Collection

American Women in Cuba photograph album 0.1 Linear Feet 1 legal size folder

This collection contains a thirty-leaf photograph album. It is illustrated with eighty-five mounted sepia-toned photographs and fifteen mounted cyanotypes, as well as nineteen photographs. The photographs document the lives of a group of American women who appear to be living in or near Havana, Cuba in the early twentieth century.

  1. College of William and Mary

Andrew Summers Rowan (1857-1943) Papers and Memorabilia 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 1 1/2 in. (1 folder, 1/2 in.; 1 wrapped flag, 1 in.)

Rowan, Andrew Summers
Burial flag, cord, pictures, and correspondence, 1963-1964, concerning disposition of these items. There is a resume of Rowan's life after 1922 and information on his military service, which included a mission in Cuba prior to the Spanish-American War, which was glorified in Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia. There is a resume of Rowan's life, most notably his U.S. Army career, 1881-1909. An 1881 graduate of West Point, he served on the frontier against Indians and on the International Railway Survey in Central and South America before being appointed military attache to Chile, where he co-authored The Island of Cuba in 1897. This book established him as an expert on Cuba, which led to his assignment as a courier to the rebel general Garcia prior to America's war with Spain in 1898. The successful fulfillment of this mission made him famous and, along with gallantry in the subsequent Philippine campaign, was the basis for his being given the Distinguished Service Cross and other rewards.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

A New and Accurate Map of the Islands of Cuba; Hispaniola or Santo Domingo, and Porto Rico .01 Linear Feet

Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767

Two copper engraved maps on one hand-colored leaf, from Emanuel Bowen's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world, 1752. The maps' cartouches state they are "drawn from the most approved Maps & Charts and Regulated by Astron[mical] Observations." Includes Bahama Islands, the Windward Passage, the Virgin Islands, island place names, map scale, and compass rose. Bodies of water noted: Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, and Atlantic Ocean.

  1. College of William and Mary

Cartelistas Cubanos por el Futuro collection 2.17 Linear Feet Two oversized folders.

28 Black and white posters with themes of the environment and climate change. Also included in the collection is a sheet with information on the collection, and a brown paper portfolio entitled Cartelistas Cubanos Por El Futuro on one side and the name of artists on the other.

  1. College of William and Mary

Consulado de S. M. Catolica en Jamaica letters 0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.

Four letters from the Letters sent from the offices of the Consulado de S. M. Catolica en Jamaica to the Capitan General de la Isla de Cuba. They were written by consular officers Antonio Brosa and Carlos Duquesnay. Brosa and Duquesnay report on "disorder" and "disruptions" they attribute to enslaved people and "los emancipados."

  1. College of William and Mary

Cuban Political Posters .01 Linear Feet

8 screen-printed posters collected during first official visit to post-revolutionary Cuba by United States citizens. Posters were for the 1978 Festival Mondial de la Jeunesse et des Etudiants (or World Festival of Youth and Students) held in Havana, Cuba.

  1. College of William and Mary

Davis Family Diaries 1 Linear Feet

Davis, William Couch

This a a collection of diaries of William Couch Davis, Jr., and his wife, Mary Anderson Davis, including accounts of William's jobs in France (1917-19), Cuba, Savannah, and Norfolk. They include many details about the Davis family of West Point, Virginia. One of Mary's diaries covers their first married year (1924-25) in Cuba and others cover their trips (1935-1959) out west in Canada and to Central America and Europe.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Ellison Family Papers 3.3 Linear Feet Summary: 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)

Ellison family

The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an account book of William Petrie. There is also an 1831 journal of William Petrie with entries about his travels to England, Cuba, New Orleans, and along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. There are separations from this collection of photographs, pamphlets, newspapers, and broadsides.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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