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- Member of: Chinese Immigrants in Cuba: Documents From the James and Ana Melikian Collection
Created1861
DescriptionRecords for the ship Alice Thorndike, which brought Chinese settlers from China to Cuba under contract with Torices, Puente y Co. On this trip, the Alice Thorndike brought 342 settlers from China to work.
Created1867
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Permission to enter Cuba with a shipment of Chinese settlers in on the Bremen ship “Confucius”. The Captain General hired hired a German ship to bring Chinese settlers; some official communications on the subject; superior civil government documents on the authorization of the shipment; list of the 218 boarding Chinese settlers in Macao; document the Spanish consulate in Macao on cargo; list of the 218 boarding Chinese settlers in Macao, received in Havana landing-released Chinese settlers.
Created1880
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Certificate of nationality issued to a Chinese settler by the Chinese consulate in Havana.
Created1899
DescriptionA letter from the Consul General of China in Havana to Chang Yin Jung, the mayor of Matanzas. It details how the Consul General congratulates him on his recent appointment to the position of mayor.
Created1902-08-12
DescriptionA letter from the Emperor of Qing dynasty to the President of Cuba. It details the friendly relationship between the two countries as the Qing's emperor wrote that he hope their diplomatic relations could last forever.
DescriptionLetter from Florence Page to Meloceio Martin Rivero.
Created1925
DescriptionA letter to Minister Antonio Martin Rivero of Cuba from a Mexican dignitary who visited Cuba twice in 1925. Written in English.
Created1937
DescriptionA 1937 letter to Miguel Coyula of the newspaper, El Mundo, who wrote a piece against the Japanese Invasion of China. This letter is from Leonardo Lelyen, President of Revista Fraternidad, an organizational group for Chinese commerce in Cuba.
Created1937
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1937 political letter to Comandante Miguel Coyula congratulating him on an article in the newspaper, El Mundo, naming that the union of all Chinese settlers and descendants is in the better interest of the country, Cuba. This letter is from Li Kent, the President of the Cuban Chamber of Chinese Commerce.