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Migration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Doval Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 66
Abstract

The Doval Family Collection is a geneaology collection, which contains some family personal documents, family portraits and one copy of an iconic passenger list booklet for the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company. This family initially moved to New York from Puerto Rico and eventually settled in New Jersey.

Dates: 1914-2000
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Doval Family Collection

Michael Lapp Migration Division Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OHC 1
Abstract

The Lapp Oral History Collection consists of interviews conducted by Michael Lapp in 1984-85 with several Migration Division officers, including Luis Cardona, Joseph Monserrat, Director from 1951 to 1969, and Alan Perl, the lawyer responsible for the seasonal farm workers’ contracts negotiated by the Division. This collection complements the OGPRUS Migration Division Records.

Dates: 1984-1985
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Michael Lapp Migration Division Oral History Collection

Elsa Santiago Febus Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 104
Abstract The Elsa Santiago Febus (Elsa De Jesús) Family Papers consists of 16 family photographs documenting her family move to New York City aboard the iconic S.S. Marine Tiger ca. 1947. There are some photographs taken in the roof where they lived. Tomás Santiago (Falin) became crew member in tourist cruiseships travelling around South America. Besides the steamship memorabilia, the collection includes newspaper articles and clippings on Puerto Rican Archbishop Roberto O. González, dating from...
Dates: 1929-1999
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Elsa Santiago Febus Family Collection

Torres-Ortíz Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 39
Abstract The Torres-Ortíz’s were a three generations Puerto Rican middle class family that migrated to New York in the 1920s. The Torres-Ortíz experiences and successes in a “separate but equal” United States highlights the privileges they brought with them from the island. It seems that the family not only self-identified; but were also often treated as white by other white Americans. Their higher economical standing also accounts for their unique experience in the US compared to other struggling...
Dates: 1911-1984
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Torres-Ortíz Family Papers


About the Collections

Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.

  • Centro Library & Archives
  • Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
    2180 Third Avenue, Room 120
  • New York, NY 10035
  • centro.library@hunter.cuny.edu
  • 212-396-7874

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