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From: Estorino, Maria (mestorino@MIAMI.EDU)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 16:19:52 CDT

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From: "Estorino, Maria" <mailto:mestorino@MIAMI.EDU>
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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 mailto: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 mailto:mestorino@miami.edu http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.html

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