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Cuban passport (Pasaporte, República de Cuba)
Object/Artifact
A Republic-of-Cuba passport booklet with gray-blue card covers, issued by the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Cover: "República de Cuba" arched over the national coat of arms, "Pasaporte / Passport / Passeport" in a box; silver-white on gray card. Endpapers/title page: guilloche security underprint repeating "República de Cuba / Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores"; coat of arms and trilingual "Pasaporte/Passport/Passeport." Page 2: "FOTOGRAFÍAS" with an affixed black-and-white photograph of the bearer (a young woman, attached with a metal grommet); note that the passport is valid five years from issue. Page 3: "FILIACIÓN" — parents' names, birthplace, date of birth, civil status, profession, height, complexion, eye and hair color, and bearer's signature. (Personal data redacted.) Pages 4–5: record/receipt numbers; "Observaciones"; the citizenship certification, "Dado en la Habana, a 13 de Sept/61," signed by the Jefe del Departamento de Ciudadanía y Pasaportes.
2025.23.1
Issued to Lydia del Carmen García y Quirós, b. 13 January 1933, Arroyo Naranjo, Havana; single; profession: profesora; parents José Ramón García [y Cotarelo] and Pilar [Quirós y Álvarez]; photograph affixed; bearer's signature present
Hernández Arocha Family collection
Lydia del Carmen García y Quirós collection
2025.23
Gift
MINREX
9/13/1961
1960s
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Issuer: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, República de Cuba — Departamento de Ciudadanía y Pasaportes, Havana. Date: Issued 13 September 1961, Havana (expediente 71999-61).
Trilingual printed fields (Spanish/English/French); coat of arms; security underprint; page numbers; "Este Pasaporte es válido por cinco años…"; manuscript entries; official signature; record no. 71999-61; receipt no. 67830.
Cardboard
Paper
Materials: Printed paper booklet with card covers; affixed gelatin-silver photograph (grommeted); manuscript and stamp inks; sewn/stapled binding. Technique: Letterpress/offset passport with guilloche security underprint; hand-completed fields; affixed photo; rubber-stamp and manuscript signature.
Good
Lydia del Carmen García y Quirós
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
New York City
New York
U.S.A.
North America
preservation