Brochures
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on pamphlets, leaflets, or booklets that advertise or promote a particular product, service, event, organization, etc.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence (primarily to Brooklyn College professor Anthony [Antonio] M. Stevens-Arroyo), 1980-1983
File — Box 1: [Barcode: PRMC_001], Folder: 2
Dates:
1980-1983
East Harlem Council for Community Improvement Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 119
Abstract
This small collection offers insight into the work of community leaders in East Harlem. Founded in 1979 by residents and community leaders in El Barrio, the East Harlem Council for Community Improvement focused on delivering a broad range of human services to the residents of Manhattan’s Community Planning Board #11. It later expanded its reach and provided services in communities in the South Bronx, Lower East Side, and Central and West Harlem. It consists primarily of news articles,...
Dates:
1965-1997
Suleika Cabrera Drinane Institute for Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Elderly Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 26
Abstract
The Institute for the Puerto Rican Hispanic Elderly, a non-profit organization, has a mission to improve the quality of life of the Puerto Rican Hispanic elderly residing in New York City. More broadly, they also advocate and program for Latinx, minority, immigrant and elderly populations in the United States. The IPRHE materials consist of institutional documents, including programming and fundraising brochures and photograph albums, as well as issues of the Institute’s quarterly newspaper...
Dates:
circa 1990s
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
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.
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