Records of Puerto Rican Oral History Project,1960-1984 (Bulk dates, 1973-1975). 4 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic feet.
ArMS 1976.001
The Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) initiated the Puerto Rican Oral History Project in 1973. Over seventy-five interviews were conducted documenting the experiences of Brooklyn residents who arrived from Puerto Rico between 1917 and 1940. This collection includes recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted primarily between 1973 and 1975. Also included are newspaper clippings, brochures, booklets about Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican community, and administrative information on how the project was developed, carried out, and evaluated.
Transcripts of the interviews can be read in the library. Recordings are not currently available to researchers; we anticipate that recordings will be available for researchers to listen to in the library in the Spring of 2010.