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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Los Sures Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation Records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: Sures_001]
Identifier: MSS 43
Abstract

The Los Sures Collection (Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation) consists of newsletters, commemorative journals, a 1981-1982 report, invitations and flyers for events, and a T-shirt from the community organization, which is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the community.

Dates: 1982-1997

Pre-1970s Publications

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: artificial-1970s-Pubs
Abstract

Artificial collection grouped by provenance, composed of 9 microfilm reels (1923 to 1969) of Hispanic journals and periodicals gathered from various collections in the Archives in order to group them by title of publication. Included: Alba de Nueva York, Boletin de la Liga Puertorriqueña, Cascabeles, Mundo Latino, Puerto Rico y Nueva York, Vida Hispana, La Voz de Puerto Rico, El Boricua, En Marcha, and many others.

Dates: 1932-1969



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.