ARTstor Digital Library: Cuban Heritage

* Recent addition to the ARTstor Digital Library: Cuban Heritage
Collection *

We are pleased to announce that the University of Miami Libraries?
unique Cuban Heritage Collection is now part of the ARTstor Digital
Library.

The Cuban Heritage Collection, part of the University of Miami
Libraries, is the premier collection of research materials for Cuban
and Cuban-American studies. It is the most comprehensive library of
manuscripts, rare and contemporary books, and unique materials for the
study of Cuba, its history, its people, and its culture in the island
and abroad. The images provided through ARTstor represent an
important, thoughtfully curated subset of the material available
through the Cuban Heritage Collection. The images to be made available
through ARTstor have been selected from The Manuel R. Bustamante
Photograph Collection and the Cuban Postcard Collection.

The Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection consists of more than
600 black and white photographs of Cuba from the early 1900s to the
1930s. Many of these images were published by New York-based Munson
Steamship Line in its Cuba Review magazine. The photographs depict
various aspects of the life, architecture, and culture of Havana and
other Cuban towns at the turn of the 20th century.

The Cuban Postcard Collection is a collection of postcards of Cuba and
the Cuban experience outside of Cuba from the early 20th century to
the present. It includes photographs and artist drawn postcards and
provides views of many parts of the island as well as various aspects
of Cuban communities in the United States and elsewhere.

In reaching this agreement, William D. Walker, University Librarian,
University of Miami, and Max Marmor, ARTstor?s Director of Collection
Development, expressed their shared enthusiasm in collaborating to use
digital technologies to make these high quality images more broadly
available for noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes. ?We
are delighted to make the Cuban Heritage Collection?s distinctive
resources available to the larger ARTstor community. The benefits of
this collaboration extend far beyond the partnership between the
University of Miami Libraries and ARTstor. Students and scholars
across the country will now have a unique vantage point for viewing
photographs and postcards previously accessible only by visiting
Miami. ARTstor?s venue provides the ideal way to study images and we
are excited that others will have access to our rare resources?
comments Walker. ?We are especially pleased that our friends at the
University of Miami Libraries have decided to share these wonderful
collections, initially part of ARTstor?s nascent ?hosting? service,
with the broader community of ARTstor users, ? adds Marmor. ?Our hope
is that other institutions for which we are hosting digital
collections will similarly conclude they wish to foster the
development of a rich ARTstor ?network? in this manner.?

The University of Miami Libraries
(http://www.library.miami.edu/Richterlibrary.html) hold more than 2.5 million
volumes and provide access to over 46,100 periodical titles. The
Libraries? Cuban Heritage Collection
(http://www.library.miami.edu/umcuban/collections.html)preserves and provides
access
to an extensive collection of books, periodicals, and archival
materials on Cuba and the Cuban exile experience.

The contents of the Cuban Heritage Collection have, like other new
elements of the ARTstor Digital Library, been integrated into the
ARTstor Image Gallery. The Bustamante Collection and the Cuban
Postcard Collection may be most readily searched for in ARTstor using
the keywords ?Bustamante collection? or ?Cuban postcard collection?
respectively. ?Cuban heritage collection? will retrieve both source
collections simultaneously.