Joffre-Sureda Family Scrapbook
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a leather-bound scrapbook that includes family photographs, clippings, flyers, invitations and greeting cards, correspondence and other mementos dating from the 1930s.
Dates
- Creation: 1930s
Creator
- Joffre-Sureda Family (Family)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to researchers without restrictions.
Biographical / Historical
The Joffre-Sureda Family was a upper middle class family from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico that migrated to New York and New Jersey.
Extent
0.30 Cubic Feet : Leather bound scrapbook.
Language of Materials
English
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
The Joffre-Sureda Family was a upper middle class family from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico that migrated to New York and New Jersey. The Joffre-Sureda Family Scrapbook is a collection consisting of a leather-bound album created by Theresa Joffre which includes family photographs, mostly of herself and her son, Pedro Antonio (a.k.a. Peter), clippings, flyers, invitation and greeting cards, correspondence and other mementos. The collection dates to the 1930s.
Cultural context
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Joffre-Sureda Family Scrapbook
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Christopher R. Medina, Archive staff member under the supervision of Pedro Juan Hernández.
- Date
- March 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- February 8, 2021: Revised by Pedro Juan Hernandez.
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Repository
Silberman Building, Hunter College
2180 Third Ave. Rm. 122
New York New York 10065
centro.library@hunter.cuny.edu
