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Puerto Rican associations, institutions, etc. – New York.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Edgar de Jesús Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 77
Abstract

Edgar de Jesús was a union member and organizer and former member of the Young Lords. The collection measures 0.4 cubic feet and consists of newsletters, biographies and reports. It spans the years 1970-2001 and is concerned mainly with activities in the New York metropolitan area.

Dates: 1970-2001
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Edgar de Jesús Papers

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
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Suleika Cabrera Drinane Institute for Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Elderly Records

Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference Programs Collection

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: PRSA_001]
Identifier: 2022-010
Dates: 1994-2004
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora


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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