Correspondence
name: label: Collection Interviewer
content: Velasquez, Steve
topic: label: Topic
content: Teenage girls
label: Topic
content: Cuban Americans
label: Topic
content: Latinas
label: Topic
content: Latin Americans -- United States
label: Topic
content: Migration
label: Topic
content: Children -- Cuba
label: Topic
content: Family -- Cuba
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content: Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-1969, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1377, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Correspondence
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 1960-1970
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes correspondence, photographs, and other ephemeral objects mostly created by young Cuban girls who were relocated to the United States as part of Operation Pedro Pan. Some of the girls went on to participate in the oral histories (as adults) collected by NMAH. The bulk of the materials is from sisters Lola and Margarita Prats. Letters are addressed to their temporary foster family and relatives. Other material (photographs, drawings, and a case file) documents other girls' experiences in Cuba and the United States. Some of the earlier dated content and official records from the Catholic churces is in Spanish.