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Selden Rodman papers

While maintaining his permanent residence in Oakland, New Jersey, Rodman traveled to Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, throughout the Caribbean, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador, where he befriended famous writers and artists, such as Diego Rivera, Octavio Paz, and Pablo Neruda. Following this tour, Rodman settled part-time in Haiti until 1992, writing plays and histories of Haitian art, expanding his private art collection, and coordinating exhibitions of Haitian art.

Alexander O. Vietor Collection

The collection consists of ships’ logs, nineteenth-century cargo manifests of Connecticut ships on fishing voyages, and the papers of ships sailing to the West Indies for rum and sugar and to the Antarctic on sealing expeditions.

Stephen Dickerman Pardee family papers

The papers consist of family letters, business letters, and business and personal accounts of the Pardee family. The principal figures in the collection are Stephen Dickerman Pardee and his son John S. Pardee, who served in the U.S. Navy. The letters, which date from 1852-1853, describe life on board ship and in port at Pensacola, Florida, as well as cruises in the Caribbean and to Cuba.

Angola Collection

The collection consists of correspondence, printed material, and photographs relating to the history of Angola and the current political, economic, and social conditions.

Alexander Duff Robertson Papers

Robertson was the executive director of the Milbank Memorial Fund in New York City from 1962 until 1969. From 1969 until 1990, he held numerous positions with the World Health Organization (WHO) such as chief of human resources for the Caribbean; regional advisor on medical education and public health; public health administrator; director of health manpower development; and director of health services in the regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Alexandria, Egypt.

Paul C. Daniels Papers

Paul Clement Daniels was born in Buffalo, New York, on October 26, 1903. He graduated from Yale in 1924 with a degree in philosophy. After a brief time teaching, Daniels entered the Foreign Service in July 1927, serving as chairman of the Inter-American Coffee Board.

Latin American Pamphlet Collection

A collection of pamphlets from Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela, the West Indies, and other Latin American and South American countries. The pamphlets document the agricultural, economic, legal, military, political, religious, and social activities in these countries.

Anne Nelson-Black Papers

The papers consist of material from El Salvador, including guerrilla propaganda, internal guerrilla memoranda, and U.S. and Salvadoran government documents; material from Puerto Rico relating to the Cerro Maravilla case and the Culebra island controversy; and documents on the 1981-1982 national elections of Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.

William Bayard Hale Papers

Correspondence, writings, memorabilia, scrapbooks and printed matter chiefly concentrated in the years 1910-1923. The correspondence includes photocopies of thirteen letters from Woodrow Wilson to Hale (1911-1915) discussing various aspects of United States foreign policy. Between 1913 and 1914, Hale travelled in Central America as Woodrow Wilson’s special emissary to Mexico and then to Nicaragua.

Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

An artificial collection of volumes, tracts, deeds, and clippings on the topic of slavery. A seven volume composition of material on slavery and abolition, and a “Census of the Slaves in Chester County, Pennsylvania” are included.

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