Uploads from State Library and Archives of Florida, tagged refugees

Haitian refugee boat washed ashore near Key West Naval Air Station

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:20:52 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: DM4206

Title: Haitian refugee boat washed ashore near Key West Naval Air Station

Date: ca. 1975

Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - col. - 60 mm.

Series Title: Dale M. McDonald Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com

Persistent URL: http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/59739

News Tower: Miami, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:16:45 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: PR06853

Title: News Tower: Miami, Florida

Date: ca. 1930

General note: The News Tower, later renamed Freedom Tower, was patterned after the 800-year-old Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain.

Physical descrip: 1 photograph - b&w - 8 x 10 in.

Series Title: Print collections

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/5448

The Plight of Pepito

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:11:31 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a video:

Local call number: V-68 DA004; S. 828

Title: [FYI-The Plight of Pepito: Cuba's Lost Generation]

Date of film: 1960s

Physical descrip: B&W; sound; Original film length: 27:50.

General note: This film is a WTVJ (Miami) TV program called "For Your Information." It begins with a young Cuban refugee, Pepito, and follows his story. There are sequences of refugees on rafts and small boats arriving on the Havana-Palm Beach ferry, small airplanes and passenger airlines. Viewers see the processing of refugees at Public Health Service, where families are reunited.

There are scenes of the Cuban Refugee Center and Miami, including clothes distribution, looking for a home, and Pepito's father pawning his watch. Pepito enrolls in parochial school. Then, there are scenes of fellow refugees in Miami's Cuban colony and their homes.

Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff, arrives in Miami to survey the refugee problem. Monolo Reyes, WTVJ Latin Correspondent, gives views on the situation. Governor Farris Bryant gives remarks at a press conference and Pepito recites the Pledge of Allegiance. The film has interesting transition graphics. It is kinescope.

Series title: Florida Promotional Films, 1948-1978

To see full-length versions of this and other videos from the State Archives of Florida, visit www.floridamemory.com/video/.

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850-245-6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/245399

Haitian refugee boat washed ashore near Key West Naval Air Station

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:12:19 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: DM2870

Title: Haitian refugee boat washed ashore near Key West Naval Air Station

Date: ca. 1975

Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - col. - 60 mm.

Series Title: Dale M. McDonald Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/100135