LACX. Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx

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This collection contains the papers of Sister Mary Peter McCusker, a Sister of Mercy who served the communities in the Peruvian Altiplano. Most of the collection contains correspondence dated 1978-1990 documenting her journey serving these communities, but there are also some photograph slides, cards, newsletters, and news clippings.

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This collection features playbills from multiple plays put on in Mexico City between 1858 and 1859, such as "Un Soldado de Napoleon" and "La Glorida en el Tepeyac."

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This collection contains approximately 110 postcards with pictures from around Colombia. Some were sent from approximately 1966-1975. An inventory exists in the box.

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This collection contains booklets, pamphlets, and writings in English and Portuguese about the economic situation in Brazil, mostly during the 1990s.

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This collection consists mainly of correspondence to George B. Winton written during the 1880s-1920s. Some of the correspondence is written in Spanish from correspondents in Mexico. The collection also contains a cigar box of newspaper clippings.

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This collection contains the papers of Zapata Olivella, noted Afro-Colombian novelist, anthropologist, folklorist, physician and playwright who was known throughout Latin America as the “Dean of Black Hispanic Writers.” The collection provides a unique window on the history and society of Colombia and on people of African descent in the Americas as a whole.

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This .21 linear ft. collection contains correspondence, some handwritten, written by Julius Jacobsen while he worked in Colombia, South America. Most date from 1936-1941. The majority of the letters describe his time in Colombia and business activities.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a manuscript register of expenses for the household of Judge George Canning Backhouse. The register includes the names of Backhouse's indentured servants and was recorded during his time in Cuba while serving as a judge under Queen Victoria in the Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Entries are made by Backhouse and his wife, Grace. There are also separate pages tallying household expenses and travel expenses from a trip to Hanover in...

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This collection contains a manuscript about the construction of the Panama Canal from Paris, 1876.

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This collection contains two autographed letters, signed and dated, addressed to Don Geronimo Torres Tenorio, Vice-President of the Colombian Senate, for whom the writer is contracting the latest minting machinery in France for export to Colombia.

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This collection contains an original handwritten travel diary of a trip by an American Railroad Engineer to South America and down the wild, immense, and untamed Amazon River into the interior of Brazil, dated 1867-1868.

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This collection consists of 6 letters written from Cartagena, Colombia by Jannon, a French merchant, describing revolutionary-era South America. The letters reflect political intensity between supporters of the liberation movement led by Simon Bolivar and those of Vice President Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña over Bolivar's attempt to reform the 1821 constitution.