THE CARIBBEAN COLLECTIONS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA:
 | by David
Patrick Geggus 1985,
revised 2009 |
|  |
1. Manuscripts A. Cuba B. Saint Domingue/Haiti C. Other Caribbean
2. Microfilms
3. Maps
4. Newspapers
1. MANUSCRIPTS
Online guides to most of the
following collections can be found at http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browses.htm#lac
A. CUBA
Antonio Prats y Salas: “Advertencia. La presente reseña
de los acontecimientos ...” (group 162)
This manuscript describes the political, military, and
legal situation in Cuba
around 1863 and deals with events that resulted in Prats y Salas’s arrest. Accused by local authorities of stealing or
freeing several African slaves, he calls the charge a political maneuver. The document is written in Spanish, and a
typescript transcription is included.
B.S. Hile Correspondence (Cuba, August 1861 to July
1862) (group 227)
Hile was an American employed at Havana’s gas works. His letters to his wife and children describe
daily life in the city.
Letters from Cuba
The
John Parker Letters (group 165) were written from Havana
in 1815 by a U.S.
merchant to his employer, A.C. Johnstone.
Parker describes making business contacts, buying real estate, and the
shipping of sugar and coffee to St.
Petersburg.
Group 164 consists
of a four-page manuscript letter dated April 5, 1865, written by U.S. Navy
Assistant Surgeon Aaron S. Oberly. In
describing his stay at Havana,
he discusses the people, the climate, the music, and the activity on the roads
and docks of the city. He also mentions seeing a blockade runner flying a
Confederate flag.
José Ignacio
Rodríguez Papers (group 112)
Rodríguez was a lawyer who handled several cases of
Cubans residing in the United
States whose property was seized by the
Spanish government in retribution for their support of the Cuban independence
movement. The collection consists of clients' letters and documents related to
appeals presented to the Joint Spanish and American Commission for reclaiming
the expropriated property of United
States citizens. Among the properties seized
was the island of
Cayo Romana. Also present
are fragments of a manuscript describing insurrectionary activity in Camagüey
including the rising of Joaquín de Agüero in 1851 near the city of Puerto Príncipe. The collection consists of 84 items dating
from 1873-1890.
Military papers of the Spanish army in Cuba (group
161)
This
collection illustrates the organization and activities of the Spanish military
in Cuba
in the period 1869-1897. Organized into
16 folders, it contains service and financial records, muster rolls,
correspondence, inventories of arms, and a poem. Several records refer to the Ejército de Cuba
and the Comisaria de Guerra but most of the units documented were volunteer
units.
Braga
Brothers Collection
Considered
the best single source on the twentieth-century Cuban sugar trade, this is by
far the largest acquisition made by the Latin American Collection. It consists of some 660 boxes containing over
2.1 millon documents obtained form the Wall Street firm of Czarnikow-Rionda. From 1880 to 1964 the company handled over
one-third of Cuba’s sugar
exports to the United States
while the plantations it owned in Cuba accounted for about 10 per
cent of the country’s sugar output in the half-century prior to the
revolution. The collection consists of
file material, letter books, account books, cables, company reports (mostly in
English and in excellent condition), and covers the years 1872–1885 and
1897–1967. It is unlikely that a better
source exists outside Havana
for the study of all aspects of Cuban sugar.
An extensive online guide is available (http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/Braga/Braga.htm).
James Page Correspondence
(group 160)
These
letters, dated 1905 to 1911, pertain to Page's position as the engineer in
charge of constructing a water supply and sewer system in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Of particular interest is a 1910 report on the status of the water system that
includes blueprints, correspondence, and estimates. Most of the documents from
Cuban officials are in Spanish and have been translated, but one letter and the
report are available in Spanish only.
They are grouped in ten folders arranged in chronological order.
Taco Bay Commercial Company
Records (group 151)
This
collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, and stockholders’
reports of an American-owned company that had extensive property holdings in Cuba from 1903
to 1920. The company owned 21,000 acres
in coconuts, cacao, and sugar on its plantation near Baracoa.
Everett C. Brown Collection
This assortment of
105 letters comprises approximately 500 pages and dates from the years
1919-1921. Everett C. Brown, an engineer
and surveyor, wrote the letters, mainly to his wife while working for the
United Fruit Company. Most were sent
from eastern Cuba; others
from work sites in Panama
and Costa Rica. The cultivation and production of sugar is a
major focus.
Ramiro Guerra: “El latifundio
azucarero y la población de las Antillas”
Typescript
of a paper by the noted historian presented at the University of Florida
in 1934. It is accompanied by an English
translation.
B. SAINT DOMINGUE/HAITI
Jérémie Papers (group 17)
These are primarily notarial records (including those of
the greffe or court registry) from
the southern region of Haiti
known as the Grand’ Anse, of which Jérémie is the chief town. Wills, inventories, marriage contracts,
records of property transactions and similar documents fill 69 boxes and number
approximately 4,500 items. They date
from the period 1714–1896 (primarily 1780–1800). On the eve of the Saint Domingue Revolution
the Grand’ Anse was Saint Domingue’s economic frontier, the scene of frantic
pioneer activity riding on the coffee boom of the 1780s. An isolated region with a distinct
personality, it experienced the impact of the revolution in a unique way. The plantation regime survived there,
embattled but largely intact, until 1802.
These documents offer the opportunity for a fascinating area study.
The minutes of the greffe (roughly 700 documents) are
catalogued chronologically. The main
collection of 3,500 notarial records is organized by notary, and there exists
both a chronological index by notary and an alphabetical index to persons
mentioned in the records. The index by
notary and the index to the greffe,
which provide a summary description of each document, are available online
(http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/jeremie.htm). (See also below, Microfilms, Mangonès Collection).
Slavery and Plantations
in Saint Domingue (group 159)
This collection consists of 29 letters and other
documents from the period 1779-1790 (mostly 1782), which discuss the potential
sale of the Lemmens, Molie, Rocheblave, Maillard, and Vergennes
plantations. They include slave lists
and a set of accounts.
Rochambeau Papers (group 16)
An
essential source for the history of Haiti’s
War of Independence from France
(1802–1803), the Rochambeau Papers consist of about 2,400 manuscript items and
are housed in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. The papers span the years 1744–1803 and
include a number of late-eighteenth-century reports, mostly on colonial defense. However, the great bulk of the documents
dates from the years 1802–1803 and is made up of letters written or forwarded
to Generals Leclerc and Rochambeau, who commanded the Napoleonic army of
invasion that attempted to reconquer Saint Domingue from its ex-slave
inhabitants. The core of the collection
is constituted by 24 lots from the auction of Rochambeau Papers conducted by
Sotheby’s & Co. in 1958. A summary description of each item can be
found in Laura V. Monti, A Calendar of Rochambeau Papers at the University
of Florida Libraries (Gainesville: 1972), available for purchase from the
Libraries ($15.00). They have also been
microfilmed by the library, and occupy five reels of film.
In
addition, the library has also microfilmed the 23 lots from the 1958 auction
that were purchased by the Haitian government.
This is of considerable importance, as the latter body of documents was
never made available to the public and it has since disappeared. These papers have not been calendared but for obtaining copies reference can be made to the auction catalog (Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of the unpublished papers of Generals Leclerc and Rochambeau during the War of Independence in Haiti, 1802-3 (London, 1958), as the microfilm reels carry the original lot numbers. Details are as follows:
Reel
1
lots
1, 4, 14, 16, 26, 39, 45, 76, 77, 83
Reel
2
lots
103, 107
Reel
3
lots
110, 116, 121, 132, 134, 138 – 141
Reels
4 –5
lot
122
These
Haitian government holdings, like those of the University of Florida,
consist primarily of letters and reports sent to the two French commanders in
chief during the Haitian War of Independence.
Among the items of exceptional interest are:
Lot 14
Series
of 153 daily reports (June–Nov. 1803) by the French commanders at Cap Français,
describing in detail the final stages of the war.
Lot 103
290
letters from naval officers accompanying the expedition (Sept. 1802–Nov. 1803).
Lot 122
700
letters and papers concerning administrative aspects of the campaign.
Lot 139, 140
Colonel
Vincent’s report on Toussaint Louverture and other reports on Saint Domingue
sent to General Leclerc.
Lot 141
Papers
on yellow fever.
The manuscript holdings are completed by a substantial
number of broadside proclamations issued by the French commanders and by a
collection of maps. The latter consists
of a dozen items, mostly very detailed, large-format maps of the northern
mountains of Saint Domingue and the Artibonite plain. They are supplemented by photographs of the
other maps sold at 1958 auction and purchased by the Archives Nationales,
Paris.
Saint-Domingue and Haitian Autograph Collection (1769-1802)
This
small collection includes two letters by the black general Jean-Jacques
Dessalines written in 1802 to General Donatien Rochambeau, and another from the
same period by Jambon Dieudonné. Most of
the rest of the collection consists of family correspondence by the de Pradine
family (1769-1772).
Duckworth Papers (group 18)
These
papers of the British admiral Sir John Duckworth partly concern the Haitian war
of independence. Comprised of 28 sets of
letters spanning the period March 1801 to July of 1807, they shed light on the
admiral’s dealings with the Jamaican administration, and describe his naval
engagements with French, Swedish, and Danish forces.
Haitian Registry Papers
(group 44)
Constituting
in some degree an extension of the Jérémie Papers, this is a small collection
of notaries and other official papers evenly distributed over the period 1800
–85 and coming from the towns of Jérémie, Jacmel, Léogane, Grand-Goâve,
Petit-Goâve, Miragoâne and Port-au-Prince.
It consist of 80 dossiers, many of which contain only one item. No finding aid is available.
Two
items concern legal complaints brought by Europeans. One case concerned jury–rigging in
Cap-Haïtien in 1885. The other involved
a French schoolteacher working in Les Abricots in 1823 who was attacked by one of
his pupils. The value of the collection
lies in the rarity of material dealing with nineteenth-century Haiti,
particularly its social history.
Haitian Papers (group 44a)
These
20 small dossiers date mainly from the mid–nineteenth century and include
documents from northern Haiti
as well as from the southern peninsula.
They have not been indexed by name but, like the previous collection,
they consist chiefly of legal records.
Jérémie Journal (1820-21) (group 168)
This unusual diary
was kept by a white American artisan who lived in Jérémie during the presidency
of Boyer and worked as a blacksmith and carpenter. Struggling unsuccessfully to establish an
ironmongery business, he provides a rather jaundiced view of the country and
its inhabitants. There is an interesting
description of carnival. The document
runs to 56 foolscap pages and is in very poor condition but has been digitized.
Haitiana Collection (group
23)
These
mainly political papers have been split into three series. Series 23a-b and 23c relate to the years
1900-54 and consist of the correspondence of presidents and secretaries of
state. They largely concern foreign
affairs and are most numerous. Much of
the material is purely formal (letters of appointment or congratulations), though
it includes several agreements with the United States and occasional references
to voodoo. These series have been
calendared and contain some 110 items.
Series
23d remains without a guide. It consists
of 65 dossiers which span the years 1807–1899, with the early and later decades
most strongly represented. The material
includes letters by Isaac Louverture and Presidents Pétion and Boyer.
Frank Crumbie Papers (group
14)
Frank
R. Crumbie traveled extensively in Haiti during the 1920s, where he was
a Customs officer under the American occupation. This collection consists of his manuscript
notes, clippings, photos, and correspondence regarding the country. Letters and clippings are arranged in seven
chronologically organized scrapbooks covering the years 1922–1943, and other
notebooks, scrapbooks, and papers deal specifically with such subjects as
popular beliefs, poison, vodou, and Navassa
Island. There is a fine series of photographs taken
in 1937–1938 by the photographer Phil Hiss, and also a number of letters
exchanged with the authors Faustin Wirkus and Selden Rodman.
C. OTHER CARIBBEAN
West Indies Papers and Records,
1772-1828 (group 12)
This heterogeneous collection groups 227 manuscripts
items dating from the period 1772–1829 and deriving from the following colonies
– Antigua, Barbados, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada,
Honduras, Jamaica, St. Kitts and other Leeward Islands, Martinique, St.
Eustatius, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname, Tobago, and Trinidad. They consist of correspondence of the various
colonial governors together with financial accounts and pay warrants. Most are in English, those from foreign
colonies dating from periods of British occupation. Among the signatories are the earl of
Balcarres, John Dalling, and Sir John Vaughan.
It is not know if the collection duplicates material in the Public
Record Office, London.
Samuel Cary
Letterbook, St Kitt’s (group 166)
Manuscript letterbook, dated 1765 to 1772, written by
Samuel Cary, Jr. for the Simon Estate plantation on St. Kitt’s. The book includes detailed business
transactions concerning sugar, rum, and coffee, and correspondence with the
owners in London,
Charles Spooner, Joseph Sill, and William Manning. Several letters pertaining
to family or business matters also are addressed to Boston.
There is much information about the plantation’s slaves, of whom about
300 are listed at one point. Cary describes the
shipping of slaves, the purchase of slaves, their labor and health, and the
escape and death of slaves. In addition, he records information about the
products of the plantation, goods shipped, itemized expenses, account payments
received, and his trips to nearby islands in the Caribbean, including Nevis and
Grenada.
Cary also describes his purchase of a coffee
estate on Grenada,
and lists its 75 slaves.
William Crosbie Estate Papers (Antigua, 1792-1816)
These letters concern
day to day operations on the properties of Crosbie and his agent, John Otto
Bayer. They discuss property values,
debts, credit, and expenses; slaves, livestock, rum, and sugar.
Efrain Squier Papers (group
31)
Archeologist,
ethnologist, and diplomat, E.Q. Squier was a prominent mid-nineteenth-century
expert on Central America and in particular
Nicaragua. This varied collection contains eleven
letters (1848–1874), a dozen short manuscripts on scholarly topics and the
author’s diplomatic career, and also several engravings.
Photographs of Sugar Mills in Puerto Rico (group 171)
These
four photographs date from about 1898 and show workers and equipment at the Santa Isabel and Guanica sugar mills.
Roldán Collection
(group 150)
The
focus of this collection is the rise of Francisco Anibal Roldán as a
shopkeeper, printer, and newspaper magnate in La Romana, Dominican Republic,
where he established the El Triunfo
newspaper in 1930. Spanning the period
1910-1970, the correspondence illustrates the day-to-day operations of the
Roldán businesses in publishing, import enterprise, and real estate. Also documented is the involvement of
Roldán's son, Ramón Anibal, in a local militia force during the U.S.
intervention of 1965.
De Mey Streefkert Papers
(group 81)
This
collection concerns Dutch family and plantation life in Suriname in the
period 1725-1830. It consists of
photocopies of documents from the James Ford Bell Library.
Venezuela
– Netherlands
Trade Papers (group 75)
These
materials, numbering 29 items, are photocopies of documents from the
Rijksarchiv, The Hague, which deal with
smuggling between Venezuela
and Curaçao in the period 1870–94. They
were assembled by Dr. Cornelis Goslinga when preparing his: Curaçao and
Guzman Blanco: A Case Study of Small Power Politics in the Caribbean (Gainesville, 1975).
University Archives
Three
series generated by the Center for Latin American Studies are housed in the
University Archives (record group 57).
These are the files for a project on cannabis use in Costa Rica (1971–77), the records of the
Center’s conferences on the Caribbean
(1950–66), and the Center’s administrative files (1935–66).
2. MICROFILM
In addition to various Caribbean
newspapers kept on microfilm, and the important microform supplement to the
Rochambeau Papers, the Libraries also have filmed several major foreign
manuscript collections.
Southeastern U.S. Borderlands
Though primarily devoted to the
history of the Floridas, the P.K. Library of
Florida History deserves mention here, for its very extensive holdings contain
much material relevant to the Caribbean, notably to Cuba. Florida
formed an integral part of the of the defenses of Spain’s
Caribbean possessions and was subject to the administrative supervision of
first Santo Domingo, then Cuba. The library’s holdings are grouped in three
massive collections (Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Stetson Collection, East
Florida Papers). They include 150,000
photostats and over 1,000 reels of microfilm of documents in the Archivo
General de Indias, Seville which relate to East and West
Florida. These contain
correspondence between the Cuban Captain-General and regional governors,
commandants and intendants, and provide information on Cuba’s problems
with supplying, funding and defending the colonies to the north. They do not, however, concern internal Cuban
affairs.
The calendars for these collections
total more than 140,000 cards, which have been microfilmed and are available
for sale. The calendars contain short
annotations describing the contents of each document and a listing of proper
names mentioned in the document.
De
Beaunay Papers
These
are plantation papers derived from five sugar states which belonged to the de
Beaunay family in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue. They include slave lists, inventories,
accounts, monthly journals and the correspondence of different managers. Contained on five reels of film, they span
the period 1740–1806 but date mostly from the 1770s and 80s. They form part of the Latin American
Collection and were obtained from the Archives départmentales de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France. The original documents are the poperty of the
marquis de Fayet and are kept at the Château de Montmirail, Sarthe.
Saint Domingue Collection
These
21 reels of film deal with the upheaval which, simultaneously with the French
Revolution, destroyed France’s
wealthiest colony and led to the creation of Haiti. Part of the Latin American Collection, they
represent a substantial, though still small, selection of the relevant holdings
of the Archives Nationales, Paris. They
include the following series:
AA
54/1510; AD 7/2A-B, 23-31; AF 3/205;
AF 4/1213, 1215–1216;
135 AP 28/1-7; 135 AP 32;
CC9A/4-6, 8, 10-21;
CC9B/6, dossiers 17-20, 27;
D25/1, 4, 51, 65, 113;
EE 1666, 1991; F10/497;
F12/549;
KK vol. 130;
T 77/3.
Mangonès
Collection
Eighteenth-century Saint Domingue
and Haiti
in the early national period is the focus of this series of 19 reels of film,
held by the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. It contains copies of both manuscripts and
printed items and derives from the private collection of the late Edmond
Mangonès, which during the period 1975-1992 was housed at the Institut
Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Port-au-Prince. It is particularly interesting for the rare
items it contains from the government of King Henry Christophe. Its main
components include: Letters of Henry Christophe, 1805– 6; government ledgers,
1807–9, 1812–13, 1815;
register of land concession titles, 1819.
Registers of
births, marriages and deaths, 1793–95; 1798–99, 1802–4,
1823–28,
1835–39, and (for occupied Santo
Domingo) 1823–42.
Various acts,
land purchases, surveys, 1743–92.
Crown edicts,
1708–89; laws and decrees, 1790–93.
Memoirs and
pamphlets of the Revolutionary period.
Jérémie papers, 1781–98 (53 items).
État détaillé des liquidations opérées par la
commission chargée de répartir l’indemnité attribuée aux anciens colons
de Saint–Domingue,
6
vols. (Paris: 1828-33). The library also has a photocopied version of this rare and important
source on property–holding in Saint Domingue.
Journal of the
Penn/Venables expedition of 1655, which invaded Santo Domingo
and
captured Jamaica.
Not included in the film collection
are the late-nineteenth-century papers (of Presidents Salomon and Auguste) that
form part of the original Mangonès collection.
British Consular Papers, Haiti
The Latin
American Section also holds 93 reels of film from the FO 35 series of the
Public Record Office, London. They consist of dispatches and other material
sent to Foreign Office by British representatives in Haiti during the years
1825–1905. Along with U.S. diplomatic and consular dispatches (see
below), they constitute one of the principal sources currently accessible for
the history of nineteenth-century Haiti.
Comte
de Grenonville’s Memoirs
Written by a local magistrate, this
important if not always reliable source for the history of Martinique
in the early nineteenth century is contained on one reel of film.
Martinique, Births, Marriages, and Deaths
The état-civil of the parishes of Robert and Lamentin for the
eighteenth century are contained on two reels of film.
St Lucia, Births, Marriages, and Deaths
The records for Souffrière parish in
the period 1784-1808 fill two reels of film.
Another two reels contain those for its slave population for the year
1827.
Suriname
Papers
Filmed for the Latin American
Collection by the Public Records Office, these 5 reels contain the 28 volumes
of series CO 278, Original Correspondence, Suriname, and deal with the period
1667–1832. They include shipping
records, accounts, population returns and entry books.
Suriname Governor’s Journal
The journal of Joan Raye for the
years 1735-1738 was filmed in the Suriname
Museum. It is contained on one reel of film.
Bahamas Government Records
Also held by P.K. Yonge Library is a
collection of 55 reels of film relating to the Bahamas in the period
1700–1860. The bulk of the collection
(43 reels) consist of deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, and releases (‘Old
Series Volumes’), recorded in the Bahamas Registry. Other items include:
Crown grants,
conveyances, 1793–1862.
Wills
1700–1852 (incomplete).
Marriages 1799–1860.
House of Assembly
records, 1811–1849.
Chancery records,
1820–1859.
Dowers, 1791–1861.
Pleas, 1800–1814
(incomplete).
Slave Emancipation
papers, 1831–1845.
Trinidad Papers
Filmed in the Trinidad Archives,
these 13 reels contain the dispatches of the colonial governor during the years
1814–45, and like the following items are part of the Latin American
Collection. The minutes of the meetings
of the Historical Society of Trinidad and Tobago
for 1932-1936 fill another reel.
Tobago Papers
More diversified than the previous
collection, these include minutes of the Council and Assembly and others items,
as well as the correspondence of the governor and private secretary. Amounting to 20 reels of film, they roughly
cover the period 1800–1880.
Danish
West Indian Papers
These 19 reels of film derive from
the Danish National Archives and cover the years 1672–1860.
U.S.
State Department Papers to 1906
The Latin American Collection
acquires all material relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean
published in this series. It falls into three groups. The Diplomatic Despatches, which fill 300
reels of film, concern only Haiti
and Spanish-speaking regions of the Caribbean. They consist the reports of U.S. diplomats
and their correspondence with local governments, and are sometimes accompanied
by local newspapers. The Consular
Despatches are similar in content but derive from individual towns throughout
the region. They amount to some 490
reels of film. The Foreign Language
Papers, amounting to 50 reels, concern correspondence between the State
Department and the legations of Caribbean States in the United States.
U.S. State Department Decimal File, 1910-29
Consisting
mostly of diplomatic and consular dispatches with their enclosures, the Decimal
File constitutes a continuation of the previous series but also includes
internal State Department memoranda.
Documents are grouped by country under three headings – International
Affairs, Political Relations with the United States, and Political
Relations with Other States. The Latin
American Collection possesses the sections on Cuba,
Panama and Venezuela,
which fill 212 reels of film.
3. MAPS
In addition to the maps of Saint
Domingue found in the Rochambeau Papers and the Saint Domingue Microfilms
(above), the University of Florida has two major holdings of Caribbean
maps.
Maps
Library
The Caribbean and Circumcaribbean
constitute a particular specialization of the University
of Florida Map Library, whose holdings
are the fifth largest in a U.S.
university. Nearly 70,000 of its 500,000
maps relate to the region. The library
acquires all the cartographic publications of the O.A.S. (PIAGH), the British
Department of Overseas Surveys, and the French Institut de Géographie
Nationale. It endeavors to acquire all
modern maps of the region. It also
possesses some 300 historical (pre-1900) maps, and facsimiles. Catalogued by area and date, they include
early Spanish navigational maps and British Admiralty charts. The earliest of the originals dates from 1551.
Most atlases of the Caribbean are housed in the Latin American
Collection. Some rare items, such as
Blaeu’s 1662 atlas, form part of the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection.
P.K
Yonge Library
The P.K. Yonge Library possess some
2,000 maps, both reproductions and originals, covering the period
1500–1945. The collection focuses on Florida and southeastern North American but about 500 of
the early items relate to the Caribbean. The collection is organized chronologically
and indexed both by subject and by cartographer / mapmaker.
4. NEWSPAPERS
Current
Newspapers
The following items are received by
the library in the paper copy and are kept for either three or twelve months before being discarded.
Daily Gleaner (Kingston).
El
Mundo (San Juan).
Granma,
daily and weekly (Havana).
Juventud Rebelde (Havana).
La
Nación Internacional (San José).
Sunday
Express (Port of Spain).
Tico Times (San José).
The
following newspaper titles are available only on microfilm. Current copies are either filmed by the
library itself or are purchased in the form of film.
Advocate News (Bridgetown)
Amigoe di Curaçao
(Willemstad)
Barbados Advocate (Bridgetown)
Beurs-en-Nieuweberichten
(Willemstad)
Caribbean Contact (Bridgetown)
El
Caribe (Santo Domingo)
Daily
News (Virgin Is.)
El Espectador
(Bogotá)
Granma, daily and
weekly (Havana)
El Imparcial (Guatemala)
Jamaica
Weekly Gleaner (Kingston)
Justice
(Fort-de-France)
El
Listín Diario (Santo Domingo)
Nassau Guardian (Nassau)
New Nation (Georgetown)
El País (Bogotá)
San
Juan Star (San Juan)
Sunday
Chronicle (Georgetown)
Tribune (Nassau)
Trinidad Guardian (Port
of Spain)
Voice of St. Lucia (Castries)
De West (Paramaribo)
Newspapers
on Microfilm
More than 200 newspapers and
official gazettes from around the Caribbean
are kept on microfilm in the Latin American Collection. For most items, details of holdings can be
found in Newspapers in Microfilm (Library of Congress, 1973). Recent acquisitions include:
Les
Affiches américaines (Cap Français, Port-au-Prince), 1766-1791
Havana Post (Havana),
1913-1960.
Diario de Yucatán (Mérida) April 1941-March 1990.
Royal
Gazette (Kingston, Jamaica), 1780-1801
Titles
with the longest complete or nearly complete runs are:
Barbados Advocate (Bridgetown), 1895- .
De
Curaçaosche Courant (Willemstad),
1812–1948.
Daily Gleaner (Kingston), 1899-1956 [incomplete].
Diario de la Marina (Havana), 1832–1961.
El
Listín Diario (Santo Domingo), 1889–
Martinique. Bulletin Officiel (Fort-de-France), 1828–1927.
Le
Moniteur (Port-au-Prince), 1847–1968. CHECK
Nassau
Guardian (Bahamas), 1844–
Le
Moniteur (Port-au-Prince), 1899– 1979. CHECK
Trinidad
Royal Gazette (Port of Spain),
1835–1969.
Voice of St. Lucia (Castries), 1885–
Complementing
the microfilm holdings of the daily and weekly editions of the Jamaican Daily
Gleaner, over one hundred years (approx. 1866-1977) of the newspaper is
searchable and browseable in the database http://Access.Newspaperarchive.com. UF now has a subscription. See http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufproxy.html for
off-campus access.
In
the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts there are a small number of mainly
Spanish language newspapers from the circum-Caribbean. As many do not appear in Steven Charno, Latin
American Newspapers in United States Libraries (Austin, 1968), the holdings are listed here.
Colombia.
El
Cometa Mercantil (Cartagena)
1826,
nos. 10–26.
Correo
del Valle: Peródico Literario, Industrial y Noticioso (Cali)
1897 – 1904, nos. 64–168.
Correo
de Magdalena (Cartagena)
1825,
nos. 10–25 (incomplete).
Gaceta
de Colombia (Bogotá)
1822
– 1827, nos. 1-566 (largely complete).
El
Ideal: Literatura y Variedades (Cali)
1899,
nos. 1-3.
Papel
Periódico Ilustrada (Bogotá)
1881
– 88, nos. 1-116.
La
Primavera: Periódico Literario (Pasto)
1969,
nos. 1–6.
Revista
Literaria (Bogotá)
1890
– 94, vols. 1 – 5.
Curaçao
Civilisado:
Courant di Pueblo (Willemstad)
1871
– 75, vols. 1-5.
Guatemala
Diario
de Guatemala (Guatemala)
1828,
nos. 1–39.
Guatemala
Gaceta (Guatemala)
1854–56,
1866–69, vols. 7, 15.
Guatemala
Literaria (Guatemala)
1861–62,
nos. 1-40.
El
Porvenir (Cobán)
1890–91.
Haiti.
Exposé
Général de la Situation d’Haïti (Port-au-Prince)
1881–1993
(incomplete).
Le Télégraphe (Port-au-Prince)
1836–38,
nos. 1 – 52.
Leeward
Islands.
Mirror of the Leeward
Islands (St. John's, Antigua)
1856 (incomplete)
Venezuela
La
América (Caracas)
1888-90,
nos. 1-53.
El
Cacolín Solitario (Cumaná)
1827,
nos. 1-12.
El
Comercio (La Guaira),
1860,
vols 3-5.
Correo
de Caracas (Caracas)
1851-52,
nos. 1-52.
El
Federalista (Caracas)
1864
– 65, nos. 129 – 569.
La
Fragua: Periódico de Oposición (Caracas)
1887,
nos. 1-4.
Gaceta
Oficial Venezolana (Caracas)
June
1910-June 1911.
El
Iris: Ciencias, Artes, Literatura (Puerto Cabello)
1862-63,
nos. 1-52.
El Liberal (Caracas)
1837-38,
nos. 34-138.
El Liceo Venezolano (Caracas)
1842,
nos. 1-7.
La Oliva (Caracas)
1836
nos.1-7.
El Orden: Periódico Político, Literario y
Mercantil (Caracas)
1863-68, nos. 1-1081.
El Porvenir: Diario Político, Universal y
de Anuncios (Caracas)
1863-68, nos. 1-1081.
El
Venezolano (Caracas)
1840
– 46, nos. 1-279.
El
Zulia Ilustrado (Maracaibo)
1888
– 91 nos. 1-39.
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