Digital Assets

Caribbean Writer´s Summer Institute Archival Video CollectionCaribbean Writer’s Summer Institute Archival Video Collection
Caribbean Writer´s Summer Institute Archival Video Collection provides a searchable video archive of talks given at the 1991-1996 Caribbean Writer’s Summer Institute sponosored by Caribbean Literary Studies, Department of English at the University of Miamia. Participants include Edwidge Danticut, George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, Sandra Paquet and others. University of Miami, Department of English.


The Bob Simms CollectionThe Bob Simms Collection
The Bob Simms Collection documents the life and activities of Robert H. Simms in the black communities of Coconut Grove and Miami. University of Miami Libraries, Special Collections.

 


Florida Memorial University Campus Photographs Collection
The Florida Memorial University Campus Photographs Collection contains images that primarily reveal the academic side of college life at the St. Augustine and Miami campus of Florida Memorial University from 1915 to 1970.

 


Haitian Diaspora Oral Histories
Videos and outlines of oral history interviews conducted with musicians, artists, and writers of Haitian ancestry.

 


Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas Records
Official documents from the Junta Provincial de Patronato de Matanzas, including correspondence between local juntas and the main junta, and reports detailing names or numbers of patrocinados that document cases of individual patrocinados.

 


Lydia Cabrera PapersLydia Cabrera Papers
Letters, photographs, research notes, and manuscripts from the papers of Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991), one of the 20th century´s leading writers on Afro-Cuban religion and culture. University of Miami Libraries, Cuban Heritage Collection.


Orichas CollectionOrichas Collection
Seventeen signed lithographs and one catalog of the series of drawings by Cuban-born artist Alberto del Pozo (1946-1992) of the deities of Afro-Cuban Santeria. University of Miami Libraries, Cuban Heritage Collection.


Rolando Laserie PapersRolando Laserie Papers
Photographs documenting the career of Cuban-born singer Rolando Laserie (1923-1998) in Cuba and in exile, including images of many other Cuban musicians and entertainers. University of Miami Libraries, Cuban Heritage Collection.


Special Collections Books
Selected titles, including publications relating to the African diaspora in the Caribbean, architectural books, and a work on the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.