Finding Aid - Ramiro A. Fernández Collection (CHC5260)

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1 University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Finding Aid - (CHC5260) Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) Printed: May 21, 2018 Language of description: English University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion 1300 Memorial Drive Coral Gables FL United States Telephone: (305) Fax: (305) chc@miami.edu

2 Table of contents Summary information... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch... 3 Scope and content... 3 Notes... 4 Series descriptions Page 2 -

3 Summary information Repository: Title: ID: Date: Physical description: Dates of creation, revision and deletion: University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection CHC (date of creation) Boxes Administrative history / Biographical sketch Note Ramiro A. Fernández began collecting photographs of Cuba in Inspired by his grandmother, Hortensia Lizaso Machado, Fernández built his collection to document aspects of Cuban life, history, art, and culture before they disappeared. His collection includes a mixture of family, tourist, and professional photos from the late 1800s through the Cuban Revolution. A native of Cuba, Fernández moved with his family to Palm Beach County, Florida, in He graduated from Florida State University in 1974 and worked as a photo editor for Time, Inc. for 25 years. He is a Contributing Photo Editor to Americas Quarterly. In 2007, Fernández published I Was Cuba: Treasures from the Ramiro Fernández Collection (Chronicle Books). Scope and content The Ramiro A. Fernández collection contains photographic prints, albums and postcards collected by Ramiro A. Fernández that document life in Cuba from the 1890s through the 1950s. Included are pictures of a variety of buildings, such as homes, schools, churches, resorts, military installations, and public buildings, as well as landscapes, street scenes, and pictures of agriculture, transportation, families, children, and people at work and leisure. University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Page 3

4 Notes Title notes Immediate source of acquisition Gifts and purchases of Ramiro A. Fernández. Restrictions on access This collection is open for research. Due to medical privacy regulations, Box 12 Folders 3-7 are RESTRICTED until Conditions governing use Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact for more information. Related material Law Library Microfilm Consortium, "Cuba's History and People in Pictures." Ramiro Fernández Collection. Information about related materials is available at collid=115 Other notes Publication status: Published Description identifier: ArchonInternalCollectionID:1405 Series descriptions Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id File - 1 id File - Albumen Prints undated, id File - Albumen Prints 1890, id Item - Grandiosa Verbena Miss Novata poster id File - 2 id File - Albumen Prints undated 2 1 id File - Albumen Prints Part 1 undated 2 2 id File - Albumen Prints Part 2 undated 2 3 id File - Albumen Prints: id File - Albumen Prints: University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Page 4

5 id File - Albumen Prints: Matanzas and id File - Anti-communist postcards 1950s 2 7 id File - 3 id File - Photographs: undated, id File - Photographs undated, id File - Photographs id File - Photographs: and outskirts 1800s-1900s 3 4 id File - Photographs: undated 3 5 id File - Photographs: : Automobile race id File - Photographs: and Santiago 1890s 3 7 id File - Photographs: Camaguey and undated, Matanzas id File - Photographs: Oriental Race Track, 1910s 3 9 Marianao id File - Photographs: Cuba countryside undated 3 10 id File - Photographs: Unidentified Sugar 1890s 3 11 Mill and Plantation (prints) id File - Photographs: Unidentified Sugar 1890s 3 12 Mill and Plantation (negatives) id File - Photograph: Joe Louis, former heavyweight champion of the world in. id File - Photographs: Scenes from Santiago de Cuba to. id File - 4 id File - Stereographs: Keystone View 1890s 4 1 Company id File - Stereographs: Strohmeyer & Wyman id File - Stereographs: Underwood & 1899, Underwood id File - 5 id File - Photograph Album: "Souvenir of Cuba" : [Casa Blanca Factory] id File - Photograph Album: Albumen 1890s 5 2 Prints Part 1 id File - Photograph Album: Albumen 1890s 5 3 Prints Part 2 id File - 6 id File - Photograph Album: "La Habana" id File - Photograph Album: "Central Macarena, Camagüey, Cuba: The Home of N.F.P." id File - Photograph Album: [Scenes of 1920s 6 3 and Family Photographs, Miami, FL] id File - 7 id File - Scrapbooks: Lázaro Sosa, 1950s-1990s 7 1 and New York id File - Portrait of Celia Cruz, Heredia (Mexico) undated 7 2 University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Page 5

6 id File - Photograph: Los Palos (estación del ferrocarril de Güines)-Isla de Cuba id File - 8 id File - Scrapbooks: Lázaro Sosa, New 1990s 8 1 York Part 1 id File - Scrapbooks: Lázaro Sosa, New 1990s 8 2 York Part 2 id File - Postcards 9 id File - Postcards 10 id File - 11 id File - Photographs: Miami undated 11 1 id File - Photographs: Cities of Florida undated 11 2 id File - Postcards for photography events undated 11 3 id File - Event invitations undated 11 4 id File - Miscellaneous Collectibles id File - Correspondence id File - 12 id File - Hirzel Family Album Part id File - Hirzel Family Album Part id File - Medical Photographs: Body undated, 12 3 Abnormalities id File - Medical Photographs: Hospitals undated, 12 4 and x-rays id File - Medical Photographs: Patients undated, id File - Medical Photographs: Surgical undated, 12 6 Extractions Part id File - Medical Photographs: Surgical undated, 12 7 Extractions Part id File - American Photo Studio album circa 1920s 13 id File - Cuban girls peeping around a door circa 1900s 13 1 in Matanzas id File - Tomb of General Máximo Gómez circa 1900s 13 2 in id File - Country roads circa 1900s 13 3 id File - Private residence in circa 1900s 13 4 id File - Street scene in Matanzas circa 1900s 13 5 id File - Patio of the Santa Clara Convent in circa 1900s 13 6 id File - Train bridge circa 1900s 13 7 id File - Ox driven plow in a field circa 1900s 13 8 id File - Gran Casino Nacional in circa 1900s 13 9 id File - Ox carts on roads circa 1900s id File - Man with barrels of Chilean wine circa 1900s id File - Memorial to the Martyrs of circa 1900s Cabañas in id File - Hotel Casa Grada in Santiago de circa 1900s Cuba id File - Hotel Nacional in circa 1900s id File - Firemen's monument in the circa 1900s Cristóbal Colón Cemetery in id File - Gate of Peace of the Cristóbal Colón Cemetery in circa 1900s University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Page 6

7 id File - Presidential Palace and Zaya's circa 1900s Square in id File - Section of the old city wall in circa 1900s Matanzas id File - Façades of houses circa 1900s id File - Two potters at work near circa 1900s id File - A Jai-Alai match circa 1900s id File - A country bridge circa 1900s id File - El Morro S.A. shoe factory in circa 1900s id File - Mauritius hemp fields circa 1900s id File - Pinturas El Morro paint factory in circa 1900s id File - Baseball field in the back of the circa 1900s University of id File - Federal troops in circa 1900s id File - The -American jockey club circa 1900s id File - El Morro Castle circa 1900s id File - La Playa Casino in circa 1900s id File - Ballroom of the Dependientes Club circa 1900s in Matanzas id File - The Casino Hotel in circa 1900s id File - Wreck of the USS Maine in circa 1900s Harbor id File - Country scenes circa 1900s id File - Almendares River in circa 1900s id File - River scene circa 1900s id File - Monument for the victims of the circa 1900s USS Maine in id File - View of Santiago de Cuba circa 1900s id File - Palm tree lined path with children circa 1900s id File - Field with a water tower in the circa 1900s background id File - Cristóbal Cólon Cemetery in circa 1900s id File - A sitting room circa 1900s id File - Hospital Calixto García in circa 1900s id File - Tennis Club with the Yacht Club in circa 1900s the distance id File - View of Matanzas from the Ermita circa 1900s de Monserrate id File - Indian Park in circa 1900s id File - Entrance of the hospital and clinic circa 1900s of the Centro Gallego near id File - El Malecón circa 1900s id File - Façades of houses from the Vedado circa 1900s residential district in id File - Shrine to The Virgin and Child circa 1900s id File - street scenes circa 1900s id File - Antonio Maceo monument in circa 1900s id File - Old fort near Santiago de Cuba circa 1900s id File - La Cabaña Fortress circa 1900s University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Page 7

8 id File - Golf and country club in circa 1900s id File - Skyline of from Morro circa 1900s Castle id File - The Capitol Building and the circa 1900s National Theatre in the foreground in id File - Façades of the National Theatre circa 1900s and the Cerveza Tropical building in id File - Façades of the Lonja del Comercio circa 1900s building id File - United States Embassy in circa 1900s id File - The façade of the Estación Central circa 1900s building id File - Memorial arch at El Caney in circa 1900s Santiago de Cuba id File - La Fuerza Fortress in circa 1900s id File - View of a Cuban fortress circa 1900s id File - View of a Cuban harbor circa 1900s id File - Oversize materials 25 University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection Page 8

Finding Aid - Cuban Genealogical Society Records (CHC5254)

Finding Aid - Cuban Genealogical Society Records (CHC5254) Finding Aid - () Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.4.0 Printed: May 21, 2018 Language of description: English Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion 1300 Memorial Drive Coral Gables FL United States 33146 Telephone: