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Collection
Identifier: SC 00798
Scope and Contents
General Order No.87, Vera Cruz, April 1, 1847: ordering preventative measures to insure martial law stops atrocities committed such as killing cattle and seizing private property. Written in English. Sello Seto. De Ofico. Legal form for criminal cases. 1846-47. Projecto...Project about organization, operations and interesting points for the expeditionary army in Texas. Sent to the Governor General. Suggestions for how the Mexican forces in...
Dates:
1844-1847
Collection
Identifier: MS 00362
Content Description
5 Retablo or ex-voto paintings depicting themes that include Covid-19, immigration, migration, illness and traditional dance. Retablo is the Spanish term for relatable or reredos above an spiritual, often Catholic, altar. Retablo paintings are a form of folk art that depict iconography including saints and other religious figures derived from the Catholic church. Ex-voto paintings are votive paintings offered to a saint or divinity. Ex-voto paintings typically depict oppressive incidents in...
Dates:
2021
Collection
Identifier: SC 01790
Content Description
28 illustrated songsheets that use verse to satirize news stories from Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th century. The sheets credit Antonio Vanegas Arroyo as publisher, while the accompanying illustrations are attributed to José Guadalupe Posada.
Dates:
1899-1918
Collection
Identifier: SC 01635
Scope and Contents
Cuban document that confirms the sale of Manual from Antonio Maria Hernandez to D. Vacemcelo, signed in the city of Alacranes. Translation of document included in the collection.
Dates:
1877 November 26
Collection
Identifier: SC 01634
Scope and Contents
Two page leaf from a Colonial Peru legal document which includes a hand stamp.
Dates:
1648-1649
Collection — Box: Small Collections Box 119
Identifier: SC 01736
Content Description
A petition by Indians living in Valladolid (now Morelia) against a friar, whom they claim has a lover named Rosalia living with him. Rosalia is accused of having relations with multiple men besides the friar, and of killing her own children. The petition contains signed statements by several Indians, and a request that he be fired from his position. The fiscal writes in response that the claims need to be investigated, and that the friar needs to be punished if found guilty....
Dates:
1805
Collection
Identifier: MS 00336
Content Description
"Selfie" series of Cuban art posters. Collection consists of 20 seriagraph posters, including one by Alucho, one by Laura Llopiz, one by Pepe Menendez, one by Cuba's leading graphic designer Nelson Ponce, and 17 additional works by male and female graphic designers at various stages of their careers.
Dates:
2019
Collection
Identifier: MS 00346
Content Description
Family papers of Governor Simon Snyder of Pennsylvania and his grandson, General Simon Snyder, brigadier general in Cuba and the Philippines. 56 items: 13 letters, 7 other manuscripts, 17 photographs, and 19 pieces of ephemera.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1819-2011
Collection
Identifier: SC 01347
Content Description
Three slave registries from Puerto Rico written in Spanish dated 1868, 1869, and 1871. The names of the enslaved individuals are not known, but descriptions of each, including race and age as well as their enslavers' names, are listed on the documents.
Dates:
1868-1871
Collection
Identifier: SC 01644
Scope and Contents
One page document written in Spanish in 1642.
Dates:
1642
Collection
Identifier: SC 01643
Collection
Identifier: MS 00104
Content Description
Collection of 30 Cuban film posters, titled "Últimas Escenas", was created to commemorate Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, an acclaimed Cuban film director known also as "Titon". These were films that he envisioned but never completed before his death in 1996. Alea was an active supporter of socialism and used his film work to espouse positive change in Cuba. A link to these posters, which includes robust descriptions, translations, and citations of each poster is included in the digital objects of...
Dates:
2007-2015
Collection
Identifier: MS 00349
Content Description
The Virginia Clark and Tillie Clark papers contains papers and notebooks belonging to Martha Washington College students Virginia Clark and Tillie Clark. Papers include classroom notes, booklets from the Locker Easy Writing Method System, poems and short stories.
A note on names, Clark is occasionally spelled with an “e” for both students. Tillie is sometimes spelled with a "y" instead of an "ie."
Dates:
Circa 1920-1941
