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Cuban Voices oral history collection, 2004-2010
6740 pagesThe Cuban Voices oral history collection is comprised of interviews conducted for the project of the same name. The project resulted in the publication of Elizabeth Dore's book How Things Fall Apart. The interviews are intended to engage in conversations with Cubans who lived through the transition to communist rule after the Cuban Revolution and experienced events of the following decades. The goal of the project, led by Dore, was not to interview people who have established themselves as public or political figures after the Revolution, but rather to generate a dialogue with ordinary citizens whose narratives do not appear in conventional narratives. Most of the interviewees, then, are not prominent personalities. They are professionals, campesinxs, teachers, sex workers, state employees, cooks, messengers, and people working illegally, among others.
Oral history interview with Andrea, 2005 Box 1
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Andrea begins the first session by talking about her father's murder and her early life. She then recalls her communion and fascination with the Three Magi. She also recalls her education and training at the Alliance Française.
Oral history interview with Lorenzo, 2006 Box 5
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Lorenzo begins the first session by discussing the fights between the different factions of communism (26 July Movement, 13 March Revolutionary Directorate, the Second Front, and the Popular Socialist Party) in the pre-revolutionary period. He then recalls his childhood and obtaining the scholarship that allowed him to study in the United States. Lorenzo discusses the process of U.S. colonization that had taken place in Varadero before the Revolution. He recalls his time at the University of North Carolina and the jobs he had to do to support himself. Lorenzo also remembers his first jobs in the hotel business. He comments having provided information to the revolutionaries about the hotels where he had worked. Lorenzo recalls the early days of the Revolution, his first job at the National Association of Public Beaches and Tourist Attractions (ANPAT), the founding of the Jagua Hotel, and his time at the National Institute of the Tourism Industry (INIT). Finally, he describes the aristocracy of Cienfuegos in the pre-Revolutionary period.
Frances A. Henderson and Amy L. Schaeffer Scrapbook, 1945
1.5 Linear FeetGeorge Hallett papers, 1914-1979
109 linear feetThere is a substantial amount of printed ephemera relating to the Quaker pacifist cause from WWI and WWII. Executive Committee Minutes Citizens Union, City Committee minutes, correspondence, voter registries, Women's Municipal League and other personal material and memorabilia.
The Quiet in the Land Projects Archive, 9999
37 linear feetThe Archives of THE QUIET IN THE LAND includes materials documenting The Quiet in the Land (1996-2013), an art and education project founded and directed by the curator and art historian France Morin. The projects include The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers; The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and Projeto Axé; and The Quiet in the Land: Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life, Luang Prabang, Laos. This work goes beyond the making of art to human rights and the meeting of cultures project that has great resonance in today's world.
Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Laurence H. Ebersole Papers, 2000-2014
.21 linear feetMarie Read Smith papers, 1934-1938
.42 linear feetMichael Howard papers, 1940 to 2019
40.5 Linear FeetMostly printed materials including printed ephemera, with tape recordings of interviews, classes and talks.
Scrapbook of Social Activities, 1924-1953
3.34 Linear FeetElizabeth Blake Papers, 1940-2010, bulk 1940-1976
1.50 linear feetJ. Howard Van Amringe papers, 1851-1915
4.17 Linear FeetThis collection includes letters from members of the academic community at Columbia and elsewhere, former students, Columbia College alumni, members of the Van Amringe family, and friends. These letters deal with the official, alumni, and personal matters. There are two letter books for 1894 when he was Dean of Columbia's School of Arts (later known as Columbia College, the undergraduate school). The manuscripts include holograph and typescript copies of speeches made by Van Amringe at various Columbia functions, at alumni affairs, and at meetings of civic, charitable, and academic organizations; course notebooks while he attended Columbia College; diaries of daily appointments, 1909-1914; intimate prose and poetry written by Van Amringe and members of his family; a pencil sketchbook and notebook containing three plays by his daughter Emily Bulow Van Amringe. The collection includes numerous clippings, brochures, invitations, and other Columbia and personal memorabilia.