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UM's CUBAN HERITAGE COLLECTION MAKES AVAILABLE ONLINE MATERIALS O F CUBA'S FIRST PRESIDENT



UM's CUBAN HERITAGE COLLECTION MAKES AVAILABLE ONLINE MATERIALS OF CUBA'S
FIRST PRESIDENT 

Coral Gables, FL, October 16, 2001 -  The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) of
the University of Miami Libraries today makes available on the World Wide
Web the Tomás Estrada Palma Collection.  Funded by the Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS), the Cuban Heritage Collection has digitized
this collection and is providing access to it online at
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chc0460_main.html.

Tomás Estrada Palma (1832-1908) was the first president of the Cuban
Republic from 1902 to 1908.  A collection of his materials was donated to
the CHC in 1995 by his grandson, Tomás Douglas Estrada Palma III. It
features photographs of Estrada Palma, his wife and children, and of the
interior of Cuba's Presidential Palace at the time of Estrada Palma's
presidency; letters from Estrada Palma to his son, Tomás Andrés Estrada
Palma II; and many newspaper clippings related to Estrada Palma's
resignation in 1906.  In total, the Cuban Heritage Collection is making
available online 163 items from the Tomás Estrada Palma Collection,
representing 98% of its content.  

Letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings from this collection were
digitized and prepared for online presentation with the support of two
grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.  With these
grants, the CHC has created the Cuban Heritage Digital Collection,
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.html, to digitally
preserve and provide virtual access to the contents of its collections.  At
this website, visitors will be able to browse EAD (Encoded Archival
Description) finding aids and view digital images of the materials in
selected archival collections, including the Enrique Labrador Ruiz
Collection, the Lyceum Lawn and Tennis Club Collection, the Lydia Cabrera
Collection, and others.  The next collection that will be made available
online will be the José Lezama Lima Papers.

For more information, contact Maria R. Estorino at 305-284-5854 or
mestorino@miami.edu.


Maria R. Estorino
Project Director/Archivist
Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
University of Miami
PO Box 248214
Coral Gables, FL 33124-0320
305-284-5854
305-284-4027 fax
mestorino@miami.edu
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.html

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