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Cuban Newspapers & Periodicals
The Cuban Newspapers & Periodicals digital collection includes newspapers, yearbooks, scholarly journals, magazines, bulletins, newsletters, and periodicals published in Cuba, the United States, and other countries. The majority of these serials date from the 19th and 20th centuries, and the contents cover a broad variety of topics such as politics, science, religion, entertainment, literature, history, arts, and culture.
The two volumes (1808 and 1810) of Aurora : correo politico-económico de La Habana are the earliest dated serial volumes of the Cuban Collections of the University of Florida Digital Collections.
Diario de la Marina issues, the largest digital collection of this daily newspaper published between 1844 and 1961.
Visual of the building of the Diario de la Marina newspaper in Havana, Cuba, ca.1900s.
Published in Havana in the 1850s, the bi-weekly Floresta Cubana, will soon be part of the collection.
Five issues of the 1882 daily La Libertad (access thought University of California, Los Angeles).
Issues across 1882 and 1883 of the Revista de las Antillas.
The La revista matancera semanario de literatura, ciencias, bellas artes, modas y actualidades from 1883, digitized by Harvard University.
Two volumes, one for 1885 and one for 1888 of Ilustración cubana.
The bi-weekly Habana Elegante. Issues for the years between 1885 and 1889.
One issue of El Yara, published in Key West in 1889.
Patria, published in New York. Issues for the year 1892.
Almost three complete years of the Spanish República Cubana and French Republique Cubaine published in the 1890s in Havana and Paris.
Spare 1912 issues of the following newspapers (all published in Havana, Cuba):
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The daily La Prensa. |
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The English publication The Havana Post. |
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The Celebrating Cuba! Project is one of the largest repositories of key Cuban publications that started publising before the Revolution of 1959. The Cuban Collections of the University of Florida Digital Collections hold the following titles:
Issues between 1910 and 1915 of Revista bimestre cubana, published by the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.
1918 issues of the newspaper Imparcial can be accessed here.
The poetry publications Clavileño and Amigos as well as documents related and photographs of Cuban writer José Lezema Lima are gather in the record Todo Lezema. This archive cover dates between 1910 and 1976.
Over two decades (1919-1935) of issues of the popular magazine Carteles.
Issues published between 1917 and 1940 of the satirical publication La política cómica are available here.
El Crisol's issues for the years 1934 through 1936 are accessible in the Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals collection.
Explore the issues of the Cuban-Chinese publication Man Sen Yat Po for the years between 1947 and 1958 here (access thought University of California, Los Angeles).
One of the largest collections of newspapers in the Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals is Bohemia. The Cuban Collections of the University of Florida Digital Collections hold 4,835 issues across more than a century from 1910 to 2013.
The Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals is home to thousands of issues of newspapers published in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in English, between 1948 and 2013.
The Daily Gazette (1980 - 1987), Gitmo Gazette (1966 - 1968), Gitmo Review (1963 - 1964), Guantanamo Bay Gazette (1991 - 2017), Guantanamo Daily Gazette (1989 - 1991), Guantanamo Gazette (1968 - 1980), Guantánamo gazette (1987 - 1989), The Indian (1948 - 1959), Sunday Supplement (1961 - 1963), Venceremos (2009 - 2011), and The Wire (2002 - 2016).
Issues for the years 1959 through 1961 of Lunes de Revolución are available in the Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals collection.
The Cuban Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria published a serial titled INRA. Issues of this title for the years 1960 through 1962 are available here.
The English version and the Spanish version of the publication Sputnik can be accessed in the Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals collection.
Prensa Libre's issues for 1959 and 1960 can be accessed here.
Pensamiento Crítico's issues for 1967 through 1969 can be accessed here.
The are 84 volumes of the periodical Cuba for the years 1962 through 1969.
Issues from the 7 días del Diario de la marina en el exilio published in Florida in 1960.
1960 issues of Avance Criollo are also available in the Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals collection.
The following titles are currently being published in Cuba:
Sierra Maestra (2011-2020), Horizontes del Bibliotecario (2014-2020), Revista Cubana de Física (2006-2020), Adelante (2016-2020), Vanguardia (2014-2020), Ámbito (2017-2019), Venceremos (2009-2011), Ahora! (2009-2020), Alma Mater (2006-2020)
Published in English, in the United States, the Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals collection is home to Cuba Standard Monthly (2012-2019), CubaNews (1998-2014), Cuba trade & investment news (2003-2011), and On Cuba Travel (2018-2019)
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This collection continues to add historical and current newspapers and periodicals through ongoing digitization and born-digital curation, expanding the geographic, temporal, political, and linguistic variety of the newspapers.