A printed paper savings passbook (libreta de cuenta de ahorro / cuenta de ahorro) issued by the Banco Nacional de Cuba in 1968 in the name of MARIA ANTONIA ARUS CARABALLO. Issued by the BNC's Vedado branch (Agencia 4-10-18, Calle 23 No. 1054, e/ 6 y 8, Vedado, Havana). A direct material trace of the Cuban revolutionary state's centralized banking system, which after the 1960 bank nationalizations consolidated all banking activity in Cuba into the single state bank. The cover is a grey colored cardstock with textured surface, debossed/printed with central decoration showing the Banco Nacional de Cuba emblem — a five-pointed star (the Cuban national symbol) within a circular wreath border. Around the star, in circular arrangement: "BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA". Below the seal, printed in black: "CUENTA DE AHORRO" (Savings Account) Inside front cover (brown/kraft endpaper): A purple/violet ink stamp applied vertically, reading "MARIA ANTONIA ARUS CARABALLO" (the account holder's name in capital letters) with a manuscript signature flourish above. Below the name, a second stamp in the same purple ink: "BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA / AGENCIA 4-10-18 / CALLE 23 NO. 1054, e/ 6 Y 8 VEDADO" (the issuing branch identification). First page (mint green watermarked security paper): - Top left: printed form/stock number "114-624" - Center: the BNC seal printed in black - Below: "BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA" (printed) - Branch stamp in black ink (slightly skewed): "BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA / AGENCIA 4-10-18 / AGENCIA / CALLE 23 No. 1054, e/ 6 Y 8 VEDADO" - "DEPARTAMENTO DE AHORRO" (printed) - "Cuenta No. 26 265" (account number, in larger handwriting or stamping) - "Libreta No. 134698" (passbook number) The first page is printed on watermarked security paper.

One-peso note, Martí obverse / Havana-entry reverse. Note this series uses a redesigned face layout (denomination and serials repositioned to the sides, "AÑO 1968").

One-peso commemorative note. Obverse: José Martí portrait at left, central “1 PESO,” and the Cuban coat-of-arms at right; header reads “XV ANIVERSARIO DE LA NACIONALIZACIÓN DE LA BANCA.” Reverse: an industrial/port scene with a cargo ship and factory installations, captioned “QUINCE AÑOS DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO.” Issued (circulated) note.

One-peso note, Martí obverse / Havana-entry reverse. "AÑO 1986."

One-peso note, obverse with portrait of José Martí in an oval wreath, "UN PESO" flanking; diagonal red SPECIMEN overprint across the face. Reverse depicts the rebel army's entry into Havana ("Entrada a La Habana, 8 de enero de 1959"). Non-circulating specimen example.

One-peso note, Martí obverse / Havana-entry reverse. Issued (circulated) note. A small handwritten "L." in blue ink appears at upper left of the face.

A small rectangular printed card bearing the CTC emblem on a white ground: the orange letters "CTC" forming a stylized worker's helmet at the top, over a white anvil, set within a black cogwheel that frames a blue roundel containing the white silhouette of the island of Cuba; the gear is ringed by the legend "CENTRAL DE TRABAJADORES DE CUBA." A yellow diagonal band crosses the field behind the emblem (a printed design element).

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.

Buff, pebble-grained hard-cover passport booklet for the Republic of Cuba. Front cover printed in dark ink with, from top: the arched legend "República de Cuba," the Cuban national coat of arms (shield bearing the royal palm, the key over the gulf and the rising sun, flanked by oak and laurel and topped by a Phrygian-cap crest), and a ruled rectangular panel enclosing the trilingual title in Spanish, English, and French. Interior leaves and the personal data page are not imaged.

Republic of Cuba passport booklet issued by the Ministerio de Estado, completed in manuscript for bearer Natalia Elena Revuelta y Clews. Blue silver-stamped cover with the national coat of arms and trilingual title; 32 interior leaves of teal guilloché security paper repeating "República de Cuba / Ministerio de Estado." Page 2 bears an affixed studio portrait of an elegant woman with styled hair and drop earrings; the filiación page records birth on 7 December 1925 in La Habana, status casada, and green eyes. Issued in Havana on 7 March 1958 and later revalidated.

Landscape-format paperbound libreta with a buff card cover printed in black. Upper left: an abstract square logo with comercio interior (lowercase); upper right: NUCLEO No. 798 (798 handwritten in red) in a ruled box; a horizontal rule; then CONTROL DE VENTAS PARA / PRODUCTOS ALIMENTICIOS; and at the foot, ESTA LIBRETA NO CONSTITUYE UN DOCUMENTO DE IDENTIFICACION. No year printed on the cover. Interior not imaged.

A small landscape-format paperbound booklet (libreta / control booklet for rationed foodstuffs) with a buff card cover printed in red and black. Upper left: the ministry's MCI logo (a diamond device) with GOBIERNO REVOLUCIONARIO / MINISTERIO DEL COMERCIO INTERIOR. Center: the title PRODUCTOS ALIMENTICIOS in shaded display type, the period 1969-1970 in red, and HABANA METROPOLITANA in red. A handwritten "70" sits in the upper-right corner; the booklet is thread/staple-bound at the right edge.

A Cuban diplomatic passport booklet. Royal-blue cover stock (textured leatherette/coated board) foil-blocked in metallic gold/silver: the upper legend "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA"; the centered national coat of arms of Cuba (shield bearing the royal palm, the key between two headlands beneath a rising sun, the Phrygian-capped staff/star above, flanked by an oak branch and a laurel wreath); and, in larger capitals below, "PASAPORTE DIPLOMÁTICO." Interior pages (bio-data, photograph, visas) are not imaged and not recorded.

First-generation Cuban national ID booklet issued in Havana in 1975 to María A. Arús Caraballo — from the inaugural year of Cuba's national identity card system. A small, soft-covered booklet with a blue/teal paper or paper-over-card cover. The front cover is embossed in dark-blue ink with "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA" across the top, the Cuban national coat of arms (shield with royal palm, key, rising sun, and supporting branches, surmounted by a Phrygian liberty cap) at center, and "CARNE DE IDENTIDAD" along the lower portion. The cover shows handling wear, especially at the corners and along the spine edge.

A small stapled identity booklet, printed in black: "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA" across the top, the Cuban national coat of arms (shield with key, rising sun, and royal palm, flanked by oak and laurel branches beneath a Phrygian cap on a fasces) at center, and "CARNE DE IDENTIDAD / PARA EXTRANJEROS" below. Only the front cover is shown.

A lenticular ("3-D"/animated) novelty postcard with a studio portrait of a smiling young woman, her hair in a high bouffant updo, wearing a green-and-yellow floral off-the-shoulder dress and a large turquoise drop earring, posed with her hand near her chin against a soft green-and-blue painterly background. The vertically ribbed lenticular lens animates the image so that, when tilted, the woman appears to wink — the "winking girl" being one of the most popular commercial lenticular postcard motifs of the late 1960s–1970s. The flat photograph shows the characteristic lens ridging and slight rainbow sheen. The reverse is a printed lenticular-card blank used as a postcard, filled with a handwritten message in green ink. Printed marks: "BRIEFPORTO" (German for "postage") in the upper-right stamp box, and "IMCO STEREO CARD" stamped at the lower center — identifying the lens-card manufacturer (IMCO, a German/Western European maker of stereo/lenticular cards). The manuscript message, in Spanish, opens with a greeting addressing several people (tentatively "...Andrés, María y Claudio...") and reads in part: "Aquí va esta postal; si la mueven, verán cómo guiña un ojo..." ("Here is this postcard; if you move it, you'll see how she winks an eye..."), continuing with further remarks (partly illegible, including a line ending "...Se tiene que hacer un buen despojo[?]"), then "Saludos a todos por esa[r]. Un abrazo de," dated "6-2-70" at lower left and signed (tentatively) "Ramón" at lower right. The card is unposted (no stamp or postmark) and is heavily age-toned and stained.

Small stapled booklet issued by MINCIN for the rationed purchase of industrial products (clothing, footwear, a few appliances, and once-yearly children's toys). Interior pages carry perforated tear-off coupons coded H-11 through H-24 (and a numbered control grid), each marked "SERIE 1989," with a green sun emblem; printed consumer instructions ("AL CONSUMIDOR" / "ADVERTENCIA") and the issuing-ministry address appear on an inside page. Each of the two booklets is sheathed in a protective cover hand-cut from a Cuban tourist postcard, with the holder's name inked on the front. Multiples — two booklets: 1- Rafael García; cover Hotel Habana Riviera card (trilingual; "Cuba alegre como su sol" series); handwritten poem/dedication to "Madre" inside 2- Neida Céspedes; cover red-flowers (cactus-dahlia) card

Printed paper lottery/savings-bond fraction (a centésima — one-hundredth part of a bono) issued by the Instituto Nacional de Ahorro y Viviendas, República de Cuba, on a green guilloché security ground. Front: header "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA / INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE AHORRO Y VIVIENDAS"; upper-left value statement "VALOR NOMINAL 22¢" and "PRECIO AL PÚBLICO 25¢"; large central serial "17036," spelled out "UNO SIETE CERO TRES SEIS"; series "7ᴬ" in the upper-right panel with a stylized emblem; the word "SIETE"; and "SORTEO Nº 67 / JULIO 9, 1960." At left, a line illustration of a Modern-Movement multifamily housing block captioned "RESIDENCIAL 'NUEVO CAMAGÜEY'," the drawing signed "J. BIBILONI." Reverse: a "TABLA DE REINTEGROS PARA BONOS NO PREMIADOS" (graduated refund schedule for non-winning bonds, rising by year from 10% to 125.4%); a finance/prize breakdown (40,000 bonos at $22 = $880,000; one prize of $100,000; one prize of 10 houses at $5,000 each = $50,000; 1,000 prizes of $50 = $50,000; 7% for expenses; balance to refunds and housing); explanatory text identifying the ticket as a hundredth part of the bono for Sorteo No. 67 to be drawn in La Habana on 9 July 1960; "DIRECTOR GENERAL" with a facsimile signature; and a right-margin imprint "SORTEO No. 67 / 9 DE JULIO DE 1960." The serial number is also punch-perforated through the sheet.

A single small sheet of a pre-printed Cuban public-health form (a prescription/clinical slip), completed by typewriter. The printed structure includes a ministry header, a "UNIDAD" line, a printed notice about prescriptions, a free-text body, and a footer grid of fields (date, physician, patient name, clinical-history number, admission-status checkboxes, ward, bed). The typed body is not a drug prescription but a signed-style certifying statement: it attests that a 64-year-old male patient, resident at a Havana address, suffers from marked arterial hypertension and nervous disorders that keep him from going out (including to the cinema), and that he therefore needs his broken television set repaired. The footer is dated by typewriter. The upper-right corner is torn away with paper loss.

Cuban military service booklet issued by the Ministerio de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias in Havana on August 31, 1977. A small, soft-covered booklet with a deep red cover, sized for a pocket or wallet. The front cover carries text and imagery in a centered, hierarchical layout. From top to bottom: "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA" in small capitals; the Cuban national coat of arms (shield with royal palm, key, rising sun, and flanking branches, surmounted by the Phrygian liberty cap); the principal title "CERTIFICADO MILITAR" in large letter-spaced capitals; and at the bottom, in two centered lines, "MINISTERIO DE LAS FUERZAS / ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIAS".

Front cover of a Cuban official passport booklet. Red cover stock (textured leatherette/coated board), foil-blocked in gold: the upper legend "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA"; the centered national coat of arms of Cuba (palm-bearing shield, key between headlands beneath a rising sun, Phrygian-capped staff above, oak branch and laurel wreath); and below, in capitals, "PASAPORTE OFICIAL." Interior pages (bio-data, photograph, validity, visas) not imaged; interior bearer data recorded internally only and redacted from this record.

Small red leather-grain personal directory/agenda, filled in by hand in blue ballpoint. The printed "DATOS PERSONALES" page identifies the owner as Armando Correa, address Calle 30 #3508 e/ 35 y 37, Playa (Havana), telephone 223796, carnet de identidad 591018... The alphabetical tabbed address section contains handwritten personal and institutional contacts with Havana telephone numbers. Printed reference matter (Spanish provincial and European dialing prefixes) indicates the blank agenda was manufactured in Spain and imported/used in Cuba. A front endpaper bears the handwritten date "1986."

A handmade field diary built from a repurposed commercial datebook. The printed front cover reads "[AG]ENDA 1981" in white on blue, over a reproduced illustration of standing figures with a banner. The volume has been rebound/reinforced along the spine with red-and-cream floral-patterned cloth or paper, hand-lettered in dark ink: "AGOSTO 1981 – CHIBEMBA – JULIO 1982." A strip of blue adhesive tape crosses the front cover (later repair or label). The interior holds the diarist's manuscript entries (not shown; not examined here).

A color photographic postcard showing the Volga Hydroelectric Station (Волжская ГЭС им. В. И. Ленина) at Tolyatti on the Volga River, with the long horizontal powerhouse and spillway dam crossing the frame, ranks of transmission towers and power lines fanning out across the water, and the Kuybyshev Reservoir ("Zhiguli Sea") behind; green planted embankments and a lattice crane occupy the foreground. The image is a slightly muted, characteristically Soviet offset color print. The undivided-style back carries printed Russian captions and publisher data, a stamp box, and a Spanish-language manuscript message in blue ink. The printed caption reads "Тольятти. Волжская ГЭС им. В. И. Ленина / Фото Б. Круцко" (Tolyatti. Volga Hydroelectric Station named after V. I. Lenin / Photo by B. Krutsko), with imprint "Издательство «Планета». Москва, 1972" (Planeta Publishing House, Moscow, 1972) and the publisher's logo. Technical/print codes appear in the upper-right box: "А02545-72 / 8в-174 / Ц. 3 к. / З. 1110 / Тип. № 5" (the "Ц. 3 к." indicating a price of 3 kopecks), and the card is numbered "10" at lower right, indicating one card from a set. The handwritten message, in Spanish, reads: "Esta es la Hidroeléctrica del Volga aquí en Toghliati [Tolyatti] tiene 22 turbinas de 100,000 kilowatts cada una. ¡un Fenómeno!" ("This is the Volga hydroelectric station here in Tolyatti; it has 22 turbines of 100,000 kilowatts each. A phenomenon!"). The card is unposted (no stamp or postmark) and shows light staining at the right edge.

Slim printed pamphlet on cream wove paper, the cover set in two inks: the institutional name "Alejandro García Caturla" in a teal-green script flanked above and below by black type reading "conservatorio" and "actividades de la cátedra de piano / mayo-junio / 1965." A program of the conservatory's piano department for the late spring of 1965.

A small stapled paper booklet, the cover printed with the Comercio Interior logo and the title "CONTROL DE VENTAS PARA PRODUCTOS ALIMENTICIOS," a "NÚCLEO No." field, and the printed disclaimer "ESTA LIBRETA NO CONSTITUYE UN DOCUMENTO DE IDENTIFICACIÓN." The cover is filled in by hand in pen: the year "1981," the núcleo (household) number, a registration code, and a list of household members with accompanying figures. Heavily aged.

Hardbound, passport-style booklet with a blue textured cover bearing, in black, the trilingual title "Documento de Viaje / Titre de Voyage / Travel Document," each with the parenthetical reference to the Convention of 28 July 1951, and two black diagonal stripes across the upper-left corner — the conventional marking of a 1951 Refugee Convention travel document. Interior leaves carry a green security underprint repeating "Convención del veintiocho de julio de 1951," the trilingual issuing text, and ruled manuscript fields completed in ink. The booklet states it contains 36 pages exclusive of the cover and appears complete.

Small pocket telephone address book in a textured green imitation-leather (leatherette) cover, gilt-stamped on the front "LIBRETA / TELEFONICA," with a cream paper text block. The inside front opening shows, at left, a violet rubber inkstamp of the Banco Popular de Ahorro (palm-tree-and-"BPA" monogram, lettered "Banco Popular de Ahorro / DIR. PROVINCIAL / SANCTI SPIRITUS") and, at right, a printed owner-identification page headed "PERTENECIENTE A" with ruled fields "NOMBRE:", "DIRECCION:", "TELEFONO:" — all blank. Interior alphabetical address pages not shown.

A worn UNEAC membership card, landscape format. Front: the UNEAC emblem (circular UNEAC monogram) on a red ground with an offset black square at upper left; to the right, "UNION DE ESCRITORES Y ARTISTAS DE CUBA / Carnet de miembro," a red dividing rule, then typed entries: "Nombre: John / Apellidos: Du Moulin / Asociación: de Escritores." Back: a color portrait photo of the member at upper left; "Carnet no. 01813"; "Fecha en que se expide: febrero/99"; a "Firma" (member's signature) and "Presidente" (president's signature) over a circular UNEAC "Presidencia" ink stamp.

A personal log for recording voluntary-labor hours. The printed cover reads, in stacked capitals: "CONTROL DE HORAS / DE / TRABAJO VOLUNTARIO," a "NOMBRE" line bearing the holder's name, "ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS DE CUBA," and "BATALLON ROJO / 'ANTONIO MACEO'", with a solid black printed bar beneath the title.

A personal log for recording voluntary-labor hours. The printed cover reads, in stacked capitals: "CONTROL DE HORAS / DE / TRABAJO VOLUNTARIO," a "NOMBRE" line bearing the holder's name, "ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS DE CUBA," and "BATALLON ROJO / 'ANTONIO MACEO'." Handwritten: arithmetic at upper right; a boxed "T-2695" near the foot; scattered marks.