HIST 368: Afro-Latin America

The 203 items in the collection date from 1599 to 2013, with the majority from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many are rare, scarce or ephemeral. The oldest map, from Basel, 1559, is of the Western Hemisphere by Sebastian Munster. The next oldest is by the notable cartographer Abraham Ortelius, printed in 1579 for his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The map, entitled “Culiacana Provincia; Cuba, et Spagniola,” is also the earliest known map of western Mexico, with depictions of Cuba and other Caribbean islands. 21st century maps added to the collection include a 2012 map from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and a 2013 map from Cuba. Types of maps found in this collection include small atlases, thematic, topographic, street and political maps. Some are pictorial, archaeological or designed for tourists. Some of the maps were produced by the United States, Central Intelligence Agency, the American Automobile Association, and the National Geographic Society, as supplements to National Geographic magazine, and by Standard Oil Company and UNESCO. Many of the Latin American country and city maps were published by their national, state or provincial government agencies or by commercial publishers.

The Revista Crisis collection comprises nearly a full run of the Argentine magazine, Crisis. The collection also contains approximately 20 letters written by prominent literary figures to the editors of Crisis regarding their contributions to the magazine. Authors of the collection's correspondence include Pablo Neruda, Juan L. Ortiz, Ernesto Cardenal, Ernesto Sábato, Julio Cortázar, Rafael Alberti, and Jorge Amado.

This collection chiefly contains correspondence and legal documents, in Spanish, of the Veyga family (also spelled Veiga) and related family members in Cuba and later Argentina, dating from the late-18th to the late-19th centuries. Materials primarily reflect three generations of the Veyga family: Tomas de Veyga, Juan de Veyga (born ca. 1837), and Doctor Francisco de Veyga (1866-1948), as well as Juan de Veyga’s father-in-law Francisco Martínez de la Rosa (1788-1860). The bulk of the collection is held in a volume of bound documents with the handwritten title: "Archivo de Dn. Juan de Veyga 1871.” The volume chiefly contains legal, business, political, and governmental documents of multiple generations dating from 1773 to 1871. There are also some pieces of ephemera, pamphlets, hand-drawn coats of arms, and passports in the volume. In addition, the collection includes correspondence, clippings, and documents of Dr. Francisco de Veyga, primarily reflecting his involvement with the Cuban Independence Movement in the 1890s, including international diplomatic work.