Digital Collection

Browse material from throughout the Centro Archive showcasing the history and culture of Puerto Ricans in the diaspora.

  • Blase Camacho at the UN Decade for Women Celebration
  • Helen Rodríguez-Trías in her medical uniform
  • Elba Cabrera's graduation from State University of New York (SUNY) at Old Westbury
  • ASPIRA of New York, INC. 1975-76
  • Cast of "El Macho"
  • Our New York News
  • Accomplished young women meet with Antonia Pantoja
  • ¿Le gustaria que sus niños salieran del sexto grado sabiendo dos idiomas? / Would you like your children to come out of the sixth grade knowing how to speak, read and write two languages?
  • CHARAS crew "Our Book"
  • Young Lords Party - 13 Point Program and Platform
  • Centro Delegation
  • National March on Boston
  • El Barrio Murals
  • Puerto Rico Today: An Experience
  • Bomba y Plena - Pato Los Barrios
  • Bodega
  • A crowd protesting against Fort Apache Insults
  • Lunch hour on a steamship
  • Casa Galicia
  • Antonia Pantoja and the U.S President Bill Clinton
  • Belpré during story hour


About Centro Archive's Digital Collections

Welcome to the Centro Archives Digital Collections, a growing resource of material digitized from collections throughout the Archive's holdings. This site provides access to photographs, documents, artifacts, art, maps, oral histories, moving image and audio clips, and other material pertaining to the Puerto Rican diaspora. Highlights include material from the Pura Belpre Papers, Justo A. Marti Photograph Collection, and interviews from Centro's Oral History Project. The Gallery section contains curated content on a variety of topics and people.

We also invite you to register as user by clicking the person icon next to the search bar. By registering, you can help us improve access and understanding of items in our collections by contributing tags and comments. The collective additional information will help improve discovery for all users and create undiscovered connections between items. We also welcome the opportunity for you to share your memories and stories in the comments.

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