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Acc. 2015.068 and 2016.069 were added in April, 2016. This is an ongoing artificial collection, multiple accruals are expected.
Cuban Collection, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
This is an artificial collection of various collected manuscripts relating to Cuban culture.
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This folder includes a map of Havana, a card with a statement from Programa Del Partido Comunista De Duba, a program for a play, America, presented by the Lions Club of Guantanamo, Cuba, featuring Carmela De Leon (1918-2013), and a statement from the Associacion Yoruba De Cuba Congress of Ifa High Priest's annual statement, 2015.
La Campana, September and December 2014
Newspapers distributed in Cuba including Juventud Rebelde and Granma. The English version of the publication is completely different from the Spanish version
Granma and Orbe newspapers.
Granma and Juventud Rebelde newspapers in English and Spanish.
Granma and Resumen newspapers.
Gift of the Hemingway House, Cuba.
Gift of Jennie Davy, class of '08.
Teal short sleeved t-shirt with white wording that reads, "99% Diseño Cubano," created by the Havana-based fashion line, Clandestina. The shirt was purchased in Florida International University's Wolfsonian Museum design store. Clandestina was founded by Idania Del Rio in 2015 and is Cuba's first clothing brand and the first one to sell internationally. All designs are from Cuba, but t-shirts are manufactured in Nicaragua, and screen-printed in Miami, Florida. Clandestina describes themselves: "We are pure Cuban design. Well, mostly pure. Like 99% pure."
Postcard depicting a woman wearing a sombrero and balloon sleeved ensemble. She is dancing while holding maracas. Writing reads, "Visit Cuba, So Near and Yet so Foreign. 90 miles from Key West" "Havana with Price Tours." The back of the card instructs to write to the Havana Ticket Office for descriptive folders regarding tours.
Gift of Gary Barranger, class of '73, law '76.
The series includes real photograph postcards of Cubans and one featuring the Cuban Capitol building in Havana. Most of the photographs are heat shots of various male and female actors. There is also one postcard of a mother and infant, and two of female children; one in a dance pose and the other dressed for her First Communion.
This series includes Clandestina textiles. Clandestina is a clothing brand created by Leire Fernandez and Idania Del Rio in 2015. The products are designed by a team of artists based in Old Havana, Cuba. Although the products are designed in Cuba, they are sourced, made and sold in the United States. Many of the products are made using recycled items including plastic, cardboard and second hand fabrics.
Tapa Tapas are remade shorts from second hand-clothes. Every piece is unique: cut, manufactured, and screen-printed in the Clandestina workshop in Havana as part of their "vintrashe" initiative for sustainable fashion.