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{"value"=>"Sc Micro R-3702", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20733", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1847/1933", "value"=>"1847-1933"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1847
- date_inclusive_end
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1933
- keydate
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1847
- date_start
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1847
- date_end
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1933
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Eugene Maximilien Haitian collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"24 lin. ft."}], "supress_display"=>true}
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- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</span> <span class=\"addressline\">515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801</span></div>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"Sc MG 30"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Collection consists of 240 volumes of diplomatic correspondence between Haiti and various countries, especially France, Great Britain, the United States, Spain, Germany, and the Dominican Republic. Correspondence and documents between various foreign affairs officials, resident ministers, charge dáffaires, and presidents of Haiti and equivalent officials in other nations regarding trade, foreign relations, debt payments, lost families, public opinion, and other matters. Individuals represented are Ernest Roumain, Etienne L. Salomon, Stephen Preston, Tertulien Guilbeaux, John Mercer Langston, Demesvar Delorme, Frederick Douglass, Henry Smythe, Charles Haentjens, Anteńor Firmin, Jacques Nicholas Léger, Louis Price-Mars, Louis Joseph Janvier, Thomas Madiou, Solon Ménos, Dantès Bellegarde, Hannibal Price, Massillon Coicou, Elie DuBois, and Louis Etienne Félicité Lysius Salomon."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"French, Spanish, and English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Eugene Maximilien Haitian collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Maximilien, Eugene", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Chronology: <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Faustin Soulouque - President of Haiti 1847 March 1-1849 Aug 25</li> <li>Faustin Soulouque became Emperor Faustin 1 1849 August 25-1859 January 15 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Alexis Beaudrun Ardouin - Resident Minister of Haiti in Paris</li> <li>Damien de Delva - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in France</li> <li>Louis de Dufresne - Secretary of State for Foreign Relations</li> <li>Eugène Seguy de Villevaleix - Chargé d'Affaires for Haiti in France</li></ul></li> <li>General Fabre Nicolas Geffrard - President of Haiti 1859 January 15-1867 March 13 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Elie Dubois - Resident Minister of Haiti in Spain</li> <li>Charles Haentjens - Chargé d'Affaires for Haiti in France</li> <li>Thomas Madiou - Resident Minister of Haiti in Spain</li> <li>Baron Auguste l'Instant de Pradines - Chargé d'Affaires for Haiti in France</li> <li>Colonel Ernest Roumain - Resident Minister of Haiti in France.</li></ul></li> <li>Sylvain Salnave - President of Haiti. 1867 June 14-1869 December 19 <ul class=\"list\"><li>Overthrow of Salnave under leadership of Boisrond Canal and General Brice. 1869 December 18</li></ul></li> <li>Nissage Saget - President of Haiti. 1870 March 19-1874 May 12 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Ebenezer Don Charles Bassett - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti</li> <li>General Brismard Brice - Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Paris, London and Madrid</li> <li>Stephen Preston - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1870-1890).</li></ul></li> <li>General Michel Domingue - President of Haiti. 1874 June 11-1876 April 15 <ul class=\"list\"><li>Septimus Rameau (Domingue's nephew) - Vice-President of Haiti.</li></ul></li> <li>Boisrond Canal - President of Haiti. 1876 July 17-1879 July 17 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Ebenezer Don Charles Bassett - Haitian Consul General in New York (1879-1888).</li> <li>John Mercer Langston - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1877-1885).</li></ul></li> <li>Lysius Salomon - President of Haiti. 1879 October 23-1888 August 10 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Ebenezer Don Charles Bassett in Chargé of the Haitian delegation in Washington, D. C. during the absence of Stephen Preston (1884-1885).</li> <li>Brutus St. Victor - Secretary of State for Foreign Relations.</li> <li>John E. W. Thompson - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1885-1889).</li></ul></li> <li>F. D. Légitime - President of Haiti. 1888 December 16-1889 August 22 <ul class=\"list\"><li>Eugène Margron - Secretary of State for Foreign Relations.</li></ul></li> <li>Florvil Hyppolite - President of Haiti. 1889 October 9-1896 March 24 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Alfred Box - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Paris.</li> <li>Demesvar Delorme - Resident Minister of Haiti in Berlin (circa 1893 - circa 1897)</li> <li>Frederick Douglass - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1889 October 13-1891).</li> <li>John S. Durham - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1894-1897).</li> <li>Georges Gentil - Chargé d'Affaires for Haiti in Madrid.</li> <li>Clément Haentjens - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1893-1896).</li> <li>Hannibal Price - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1890-1893).</li> <li>Henry Smythe - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1894-1897).</li></ul></li> <li>Tirésias Augustin Simon Sam - President of Haiti. 1896 March 31-1902 May 12 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Antenor Firmin - Secretary of State for Foreign Relations</li> <li>Louis Joseph Janvier - Chargé d'Affaires for Haiti in London</li> <li>Jacques Nicolas Léger - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1896-1908).</li> <li>William F. Powell - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1897-1905).</li></ul></li> <li>Provisional Government of Boisrond Canal 1902 May-December</li> <li>Nord Alexis - President of Haiti. 1902 December 21-1908 December 2 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Henry T. Furniss - U. S. Resident Minister to Haiti (1905-1912).</li> <li>Dalbémar Jean - Joseph - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Paris</li> <li>Horace Pauleus Sanon - Secretary of State for Foreign Relations (1906-1908).</li></ul></li> <li>Antoine Simon - President of Haiti. 1908 December 17-1911 August 2 <ul class=\"list\"><li>Horace Pauleus Sanon - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1908-1911).</li></ul></li> <li>Cincinnatus Leconte - President of Haiti. 1911 August 14-1912 August 8 <ul class=\"list\"><li>Solon Menos - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1911-1913).</li></ul></li> <li>Tancrede Auguste - President of Haiti. 1912 August 8-1913 May 2</li> <li>Michel Oreste - President of Haiti. 1913 May 4-1914 January 27 <ul class=\"list\"><li>Ulrick Duvivier - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington</li></ul></li> <li>Oreste Zamor - President of Haiti. 1914 February-October <ul class=\"list\"><li>Solon Menos - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1914-1918).</li></ul></li> <li>Davilmar Theodore - President of Haiti. 1914 November-1915 March</li> <li>Vilbrun Guillaume Sam - President of Haiti. 1915 March-July</li> <li>Phillippe Sudre Dartiguenave - President of Haiti. 1915 August-1922 April <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Charles Moravia - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1919-1921)</li> <li>Hannibal Price (son of previous Hannibal Price) - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1921-1923).</li></ul></li> <li>Louis Borno - President of Haiti. 1922-1930 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Albert Blanchet - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1923-1925).</li> <li>Leon Dejean - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1925-1930).</li></ul></li> <li>Stenio Vincent - President of Haiti. 1930-1933 <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Dantès Bellegarde - Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of Haiti in Washington (1930-1933).</li> <li>Albert Léger - Secretary of State for Foreign Relations</li></ul></li></ul></p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Maximilien Collection of Haitian manuscript was collected over a period of twenty years by Eugene Maximilien, an attorney in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Maximilien was formerly Consul General of Haiti in Miami, Florida, Vice Dean of the Consular Corps of Florida, Special Ambassador Delegate to the United Nations and Legal Advisor to the Department of Foreign Relations in Haiti with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large.</p> <p>This series of 240 bound volumes covers Haitian diplomatic history from 1847 to 1933. The Correspondence and official documents within the collection were acquired by Maximilien from many sources, including his uncle, Ernest Leys, former Consul General of Haiti in New York and Chargé d'affaires in Washington from 1922 to 1930, and other descendants of the various diplomats included in the collection. The papers had been dispersed widely because it was customary for the various secretaries, ministers and envoys to keep their Correspondence as part of their personal archives.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Maximilien Collection (1847-1933) consists of 240 bound volumes of handwritten and typescript Correspondence and official documents relating to Haitian diplomatic history. Although the collection is largely in French, considerable material exists also in English and to a lesser extent, in Spanish.</p> <p>The volumes themselves are arranged in two series, a Chronological File and an Alphabetical File, according to the contents indicated on the spine of each volume. The volumes in the Chronological File are either more general in nature or refer to a specific diplomatic incident, rather than an individual diplomat, and are arranged in chronological order by the earliest date in the volume. The larger Alphabetical File consists of material concerning individual diplomats or governmental figures. The volumes in the Alphabetical File are arranged in alphabetical order by the first name appearing on the spine of the volume. The material within each volume in both the Chronological File and the Alphabetical File is in chronological order, with few exceptions.</p> <p>Included in the Container List are all the names found on the spines of the volumes, with notations indicating the volumes in which each name appears. However, this cross reference list is not a complete index, as only names appearing on the volumes'spines are included. Correspondence by specific individuals may appear in other volumes throughout the collection. Researchers are advised to use the Chronology to determine which names are likely to contain information on a specific time period, and therefore particular individuals.</p> <p>The French used on the volume spines has been retained in the Container List; only errors in spelling, grammar and date have been corrected.</p> <p>The contents of the volumes vary greatly, reflecting the development of Haitian diplomatic history and the scope of the activities of the various Secretaries of State, Resident Ministers and Presidents of Haiti.</p> <p>Much of the Correspondence is routine, including announcements of the arrival of new consuls and thank-yous for welcomes extended to foreign ministers in different countries. The ministers also received a great deal of Correspondence concerning missing persons, the costs of foreign exports and the situation for Haitian students in foreign countries.</p> <p>Other letters relate to the arrangements for the payments of debts, discussion of public opinion towards individual ministers or judicial actions and the effect of leadership changes in other countries, notably the United States, France, Great Britain and Spain, on foreign relations with Haiti.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The Maximilien Collection was purchased by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, in May 1975.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>S. Sharlin/D. Carter/A. Aleins, 19 September 1977</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Also available on 40 reels microfilm.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"This inventory is one of several prepared as a part of the archival preservation program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the Research Libraries of The New\n York Public Library.The Schomburg archival preservation program involves the organization and preservation of primary source material held by the Center and of significance to the study of the\n Black Experience. It furthermore includes the preparation of detailed inventories of these records, making the information contained therein accessible as well as available to scholars.The\n necessary staff and supplies for this program were made available through a combination of funds and services provided by the Research Libraries, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the\n State of New York."}
- extent_statement
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24 linear feet; 40 microfilm reels