Cuba Collection
The SSDA Cuba collection consists of ecclesiastical and secular documents dating from the sixteenth-through nineteen centuries from the provinces of Cienfuegos, Havana, Holguín, Matanzas, and Santiago de Cuba, as well as a small selection of transcriptions and volume descriptions. The collection is organized in a geographical hierarchy, beginning with a modern province and descending to a modern city and finally the institution where the document was originally produced.
The Cuba collection also includes digitized images of La Aurora de Matanzas, the nineteenth century newspaper published in Matanzas that has been described as the jewel of Cuban journalism.
Collection information
- Archives 27
- Temporal Range 7/16/1584 through 12/31/1914
- Volumes 414
- Images 100,187
- Languages Spanish
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The Team
Jane Landers
DirectorRoberto Alvarez
ResearcherFernanda Bretones Lane
ResearcherPaula Covington
ReseacherMichael Deliz
ReseacherCharles Grand
ResearcherOscar Grandío Moráguez
ResearcherJohn Harris
ResearcherFelix Knights
ResearcherDavid LaFevor
PhotographerMatt LaFevor
ResearcherHenry Lovejoy
ResearcherPaul E. Lovejoy
ResearcherAndrew McMichael
ResearcherAntonio Lacerda Menezes
ResearcherWillie Ramos
ResearcherEnrique Rivera
ResearcherFather Juan Manuel Triana (deceased)
AnfitriãoDavid Wheat
ResearcherAdditional Resources
Although SSDA's primary mission is to digitally preserve endangered records before they are lost, SSDA team members also transcribe these documents for easier public use. Transcribing these handwritten documents requires skills in paleography (deciphering and interpreting historical texts) as well as in Spanish and Portuguese from the 16th-19th centuries.
The following is a list of additional resources related to our collection to assist you in your research.
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