Thilo Ziegler was acquainted with Wilhelm Faupel, the second director of Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Hagen and Hans-Joachim Bock (both directors of the IAI’s library).

Material:

• approx. 50 notebook sheets
• 6 letters
• approx. 256 newspaper clippings (attached to sheets and bound; material on plant fibers in South America, particularly in Cuba, 1908-1923)
• approx. 1,000 unsorted newspaper clippings (various topics – such as The International Congress of Americanists in Hamburg 1930 –, 1926-1980)
• one envelope containing pictures of saints
• one envelope containing newspaper cuttings and notes

Keywords: Cuba, botany