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Additional authors

1. Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850
2. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
3. Hyppolite, Louis Mondastin Florvil, 1827-1896
4. Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813
5. Trujillo Herrera, Rafael

Description

1. 8.2 lin. ft.

Summary

1. 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 Historical documents from Toussaint Louverture, André Rigaud, Charles Belair, Charles Leclerc, and others.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.
2. Government papers include Senate register for 1883-1884, financial records of the city of Jacmel, 1890-1891, and various documents from the Soulouque administration. Records of the Foreign Relations Ministry consist of letters, reports, and fact sheets dipatched from the Haitian legations in Washington, Santo Domingo, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels to the Ministry in Haiti, correspondence between foreign legations in Port-au-Prince and the Haitian Foreign Relations Ministry, presidential memoranda to the Foreign Relations Ministry, and ceremonial greetings from foreign heads of state to various Haitian presidents, 1870s-1930s. Also, governmental decrees and regulations, and administrative records consisting of certificates of diplomatic and military appointments and promotions. Printed matter includes copies of "Feuille du commerce de Port-au-Prince," "Le Phare, journal commercial, politique et literaire," and "Le Telegraphe," journals published in Haiti in the 1830's which provide a glimpse of the early economic life of the country. Additional printed material includes newspapers and circulars from the time of the United States occupation of Haiti, 1915-1925 and 1950.

Subject

1. Haiti > Foreign relations > France
2. Diplomatic and consular service, Haitian > France
3. Police > Haiti
4. Haiti > History > American occupation, 1915-1934
5. Rigaud, André
6. Nationalism > Haiti
7. Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804
8. Diplomatic and consular service, Haitian > Dominican Republic
9. France > Colonies > America
10. Diplomatic and consular service, Haitian > Germany
11. Haiti > Colonization
12. Manigat, Leslie François
13. Monarchy > Haiti
14. Haiti > Politics and government > 1791-1804
15. Haiti > Foreign relations > United States
16. Criminal justice, Administration of > Haiti
17. Haiti > Armed Forces
18. Haiti > Politics and government > 1804-1844
19. Salomon, Louis Etienne Félicité Lysius, 1815-1888
20. Haiti > Social conditions
21. Leclerc, Charles, 1772-1802
22. Haiti > Social life and customs
23. Diplomatic and consular service, Haitian > United States
24. United States > Foreign relations > Haiti
25. France > Foreign relations > Haiti
26. Haiti > Commerce
27. Haiti > History > 1804-1844
28. Self-determination, National > Haiti
29. Diplomatic and consular service, Haitian > Belgium
30. Jérémie (Grand'Anse, Haiti) > Politics and government
31. Belair, Charles, -1802
32. Haiti > History > To 1791
33. Haiti > Politics and government > To 1791
34. Jacmel (Haiti) > Politics and government
35. Real property > Haiti
36. Soulouque, Faustin, approximately 1788-1867
37. Courts > Haiti
38. Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-2228

Note

1. Sc MG 23.
2. The bulk of the collection is in French; there is no English translation available.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction (note)

1. Most of collection is available on microfilm;
2. Microfilm.

Source (note)

1. University Place Book Store

Biography (note)

1. Archaeologist, authority on Haitian history and culture.

Language (note)

1. French and English.

Author

1. Fisher, Kurt A., 1908- collector.

Title

1. Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, 1727-1958.

Reproduction

1. Most of collection is available on microfilm; New York Public Library.

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction

1. Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, 1976. 14 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-14348)

Biography

1. Archaeologist, authority on Haitian history and culture.

Language

1. French and English.

Source

1. SCM 76-6
2. University Place Book Store Purchase

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850.
2. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
3. Hyppolite, Louis Mondastin Florvil, 1827-1896.
4. Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813.
5. Trujillo Herrera, Rafael.

Research call number

1. Sc Micro R-2228