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Cuban passport (República de Cuba — Pasaporte / Passport / Passeport), hard-cover booklet
Object/Artifact
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.
2025.18.1
Belonged to Maura J. Figueras Moreno, mother of the musician Paquito D'Rivera.
Paquito D' Rivera collection
2025.18
Paquito D'Rivera
Gift
Government of the Republic of Cuba
10/31/1977
1970s
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Maker: Issuing authority: Government of the Republic of Cuba. Specific issuing office and state printer not identifiable from the cover.
"República de Cuba" (arched, upper field) National coat of arms of Cuba "Pasaporte / Passport / Passeport" within a ruled panel Minor incidental surface marks at the right margin (non-textual) Holder's personal data (name, number, date/place of birth, photograph, signature, physical description) resides on the interior data page
Materials: Pebble-grained paper/cardstock cover (buff); interior paper leaves (not imaged); staple (saddle-stitch) binding inferred. Technique: Relief/offset printing in dark ink on textured cardstock; booklet binding.
Good
Maura J. Figueras Moreno
owner
Paquito D'Rivera
keeper
Guttenberg
New Jersey
U.S.A.
North America
used, preserved
Passport of Maura J. Figueras Moreno, mother of Cuban-American jazz saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera; issued Oct 31, 1977. Published biographies state D'Rivera's mother emigrated from Cuba in 1968, so a 1977-dated passport may represent a renewal or a subsequent travel document rather than the original emigration paper.
The collection holds an identical passport issued Sept 26, 1977 to Francisco Lorenzo Rivera Sánchez ("Tito"), D'Rivera's father, and (from a different donor) two issued Sept 5–6, 1969 to Pilar Felicita Quirós y Álvarez and José Ramón García y Cotarelo.