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Arts, Puerto Rican

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Miriam Colón Valle Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 22
Abstract Actress Miriam Colón Valle founded the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and was instrumental in bringing Puerto Rican drama and bilingual theatre to new audiences, especially Latino New York City residents. The Miriam Colón papers primarily document Colón's artistic vision, the productions staged by the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and her own career as a stage and screen actress. The collection spans 1948-2017 and demonstrates the impact and importance of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre...
Dates: 1948-2017; Majority of material found within 1960s-1970s
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Miriam Colón Valle Papers

Allen Davis III Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (PRTT) Playwrights Workshop Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 263
Abstract

Allen Davis III was the Director of the Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre Playwrights Workshop unit for the period from 1993 to 2011, this collection documents the workshop during his tenure.

Dates: 1979-2011
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Allen Davis III Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (PRTT) Playwrights Workshop Records

Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OHC 6
Abstract

This collection consists of 40 audiocassettes containing interviews with 28 interviewees conducted by Glasser while writing her book/ dissertation, My Music is My Flag. The collection contains interviews of prominent Puerto Rican musicians, composers, music store owners, and their relatives. The interviews date from 1988 to 1993.

Dates: 1988-1993
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Palmira Ubiñas Collection

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: PaUb_001]
Identifier: 2017-007
Dates: 2003-2017; Majority of material found within 2008-2017
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

Gloria Rodríguez Calero Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 116
Abstract Visual artist. Rodriguez Calero was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York, and for 20 years worked and resided in New Jersey. Her career and services are active in El Barrio and the Lower East Side Communities. Collection includes correspondence from her mentor and fellow artist Lorenzo Homar, a number of books, exhibition catalogues and other ephemera. Included as well are a significant number of Puerto Rican silkscreen posters, clippings, maps and documents pertaining to her artistic...
Dates: 1920-2006
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Gloria Rodríguez Calero 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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