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Special Collections Research Center
William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Conditions Governing Access:
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Preferred Citation:
Cuban Collection, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Accruals:
Acc. 2015.068 and 2016.069 were added in April, 2016. This is an ongoing artificial collection, multiple accruals are expected.
Scope and Contents
This is an artificial collection of various collected manuscripts relating to Cuban culture.
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id304006
Map, pamphlets and statement2015 and undatedScope and Contents
This folder includes a map of Havana, a card with a statement from Programa Del Partido Comunista De Duba, a program for a play, America, presented by the Lions Club of Guantanamo, Cuba, featuring Carmela De Leon (1918-2013), and a statement from the Associacion Yoruba De Cuba Congress of Ifa High Priest's annual statement, 2015.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Postcards, wifi card and programs2016-2017
- Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 3
Periodicals2014Scope and Contents
La Campana, September and December 2014
- Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 4
Periodicals2015-2016Scope and Contents
Newspapers distributed in Cuba including Juventud Rebelde and Granma. The English version of the publication is completely different from the Spanish version
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Event advertisements and menusCirca 2015
- mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Paintings depicting Cuba by CalviestUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Central Park, Havana, Cuba postcardUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Entropia art show advertisement2015
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 9
Handmade Notebooks from Riera Studio2017English
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 10
Periodicals2015Scope and Contents
Granma and Orbe newspapers.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 11
Periodicals2016Scope and Contents
Granma and Juventud Rebelde newspapers in English and Spanish.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 12
Periodicals2016Scope and Contents
Granma and Resumen newspapers.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13
Riera Studio Pamphlets and PostcardEnglish
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 14
Samuel Riera Mendez Art PrintsEnglishImmediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Hemingway House, Cuba.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 15
Shanghai Noon Photographs and Movie Postcard
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 16
Small handmade Journal with Inlay of Natural MaterialsEnglish
- Mixed Materials box: 3 2018.227.A1
99% Diseño Cubano T-ShirtEnglishImmediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jennie Davy, class of '08.
Scope and ContentsTeal short sleeved t-shirt with white wording that reads, "99% Diseño Cubano," created by the Havana-based fashion line, Clandestina. The shirt was purchased in Florida International University's Wolfsonian Museum design store. Clandestina was founded by Idania Del Rio in 2015 and is Cuba's first clothing brand and the first one to sell internationally. All designs are from Cuba, but t-shirts are manufactured in Nicaragua, and screen-printed in Miami, Florida. Clandestina describes themselves: "We are pure Cuban design. Well, mostly pure. Like 99% pure."
Postcard depicting a woman wearing a sombrero and balloon sleeved ensemble. She is dancing while holding maracas. Writing reads, "Visit Cuba, So Near and Yet so Foreign. 90 miles from Key West" "Havana with Price Tours." The back of the card instructs to write to the Havana Ticket Office for descriptive folders regarding tours.
Gift of Gary Barranger, class of '73, law '76.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 17
Postcard of Cuban womancirca 1930English
The series includes real photograph postcards of Cubans and one featuring the Cuban Capitol building in Havana. Most of the photographs are heat shots of various male and female actors. There is also one postcard of a mother and infant, and two of female children; one in a dance pose and the other dressed for her First Communion.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18
Cuban Postcards, including capitol building in Havana1920-1930
This series includes Clandestina textiles. Clandestina is a clothing brand created by Leire Fernandez and Idania Del Rio in 2015. The products are designed by a team of artists based in Old Havana, Cuba. Although the products are designed in Cuba, they are sourced, made and sold in the United States. Many of the products are made using recycled items including plastic, cardboard and second hand fabrics.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 2023.102.A1
Recycled nylon pouchcirca 2021-2022
- Mixed Materials box: 3 2023.102.A2
Recycled nylon walletcirca 2021-2022
- Mixed Materials box: 3 2023.102.A3
Tapa Tapa remade shortscirca 2021-2022Scope and Contents
Tapa Tapas are remade shorts from second hand-clothes. Every piece is unique: cut, manufactured, and screen-printed in the Clandestina workshop in Havana as part of their "vintrashe" initiative for sustainable fashion.