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Command of Passage from Havana, Cuba to Cadiz, Spain.

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01789
Content Description

A one page draft of a command by George Earl of Albermarle, Governor of Cuba, to allow the safe passage of Don Christoval de los Rios, Don Diego Orison, and Don Antonio Fernandez, along with goods to Cadiz, Spain.

Dates: 1762 September

Consulado de S. M. Catolica en Jamaica letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01788
Content Description

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."

Dates: March 28th, 1839 - August 23rd, 1842

Cuban Document Concerning Vice Consul of the United States in Trinidad

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01374
Content Description

Three page document written in Havana, Cuba concerning the Vice Consul of the United States in Trinidad.

Dates: 1875 August 3

Mary L. Gilbert Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00175
Scope and Contents

Diaries, 1902-1910, of Mary L. Gilbert of Watertown, New York. Gilbert lives with her widowed mother, and describes events such as spending time on a yacht, spending winters in rented homes and cottages in Florida, and meetings with dignitaries, including members of the Cuban armed forces. There are also descriptions of people with whom she meets, events which she attends, and world events, such as the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Dates: 1902-1910

John Womack Wright Collection of Maps

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W93
Scope and Contents Printed maps, circa 1675-1918, collected by Col. John Womack Wright pertaining to his interest in military events in Europe chiefly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collection primarily concerns the cartography of areas in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Italy. The collection includes examples of the work of Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Guillaume de L'Isle, Johann Baptist Homann, Tobias Conrad Lotter, Placide de Saint Helene, John Senex, George Mattheus Seutter the Older; and...
Dates: circa 1675-1918