Kurt Fisher Haitian collection 1727-1958

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Kurt Fisher Haitian collection 1727-1958

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20798

Bulk of the collection consists of the archives of the General Prosecutor's office for the city of Jérémie and encompasses registers and notarized acts from public notaries of Jérémie, historical letters and documents from the pre-independence era, records of the Foreign Relations Ministry from the late 1870s to 1950s, administrative records, governmental decrees and regulations, and newspapers. Records of the General Prosecutor's office and registers of the public notaries of the district and municipality of Jérémie document the administration of justice, trade, various social relations, and patterns of life under colonial rule and during the formative years after independence. Records consist primarily of correspondence between the General Prosecutor's office and the Civil Court of Judges in the district of Jérémie, financial reports, minutes of proceedings, police reports, and deeds of property. Historical documents from Toussaint Louverture, André Rigaud, Charles Belair, Charles Leclerc, and others. General correspondence, 1835-1957, including administrative correspondence of Lysius Félicité Salomon, Duke of Saint Louis de Sud and Finance Minister during the reign of Emperor Faustin Soulouque, 1847-1849; and diplomatic correspondence between General Francois Manigat, Haitian Ambassador to France and the Haitian Foreign Relations Minister, 1898; and letters of Toussaint Louverture.

8.2 lin. ft.; 14 microfilm reels

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6317083

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Leclerc, Charles, 1772-1802

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Salomon, Louis Etienne Félicité Lysius, 1815-1888

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Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813

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Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850

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Epithet: President of Haiti British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x00012f ...

Belair, Charles, d. 1802.

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Soulouque, Faustin, approximately 1788-1867

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Rigaud, André 1761-1811

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Manigat, Leslie François

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Trujillo Herrera, Rafael

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Hyppolite, Louis Mondastin Florvil, 1827-1896

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Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803.

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Fisher, Kurt A., 1908-

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Archaeologist, authority on Haitian history and culture. From the description of Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, 1727-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652265 From the guide to the Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, 1727-1958, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) ...

Soulouque, Faustin, approximately 1788-1867

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