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The Album de Viaje of Eusebio Guiteras (1842-1845)

  Image Gallery Nineteen-year-old Eusebio Guiteras left Matanzas, Cuba, in 1842 for a three-year tour visiting the US, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, including Istanbul, the Egyptian pyramids, & Jerusalem. His travel journals are a unique source of observations and the connections that a young Cuban aristocrat…

The Inter-American Reading Room

Eighty years ago, in 1939, the University of Florida opened the Inter-American Reading Room. The forerunner to the present-day Latin American and Caribbean Collection…