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The General Archives of Puerto Rico was formally created by Law 5 of December 8, 1955, and placed under the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture which had been created six months before. The main function of the entity is to safeguard and conserve the most important inactive documents of Puerto Rico's territorial government, both under United ...
Luis de la Rosa Martinez (1979). "Los fondos documentales en el Archivo General de Puerto Rico". Anales de Investigación Histórica (in Spanish). 4. University of Puerto Rico. OCLC 8394256. Blanca Silvestrini-Pacheco; Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo (1981). "Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's ...
When passing through Humboldt Park, it’s hard to miss the reddish-brown, castlelike building on West Division Street. Built in 1895 to hold horses and wagons, the two-story Receptory Building ...
It was created in 1967 as the Biblioteca General de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico General Library) by Joint Resolution No. 44 of the Puerto Rico Legislature. [2] It opened on April 11, 1973. [3] In 2003 it was renamed Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico by Act 188 of August 17 of that year. [4] The library is ascribed to the Institute of Puerto Rican ...
The Pura Belpré Papers, held at the Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Center for Puerto Rican Studies "are an important source for the study of Puerto Rican children's literature, folk tales, and legends. They are valuable for examining relationships between the Puerto Rican community and a major institution such as the New York Public ...
Andrés Figueroa Cordero [note 1] (November 29, 1924 – March 7, 1979) was a political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an advocate of Puerto Rican independence. On March 1, 1954, with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebrón , Irvin Flores , and Rafael Cancel Miranda , he entered the United States Capitol building armed ...
La Fortaleza in Old San Juan is the official residence of the governor of Puerto Rico. It was built between 1533 and 1540. History of Puerto Rico By year Spanish rule, 1493–1898 U.S. rule, 1898–present Topics: Economic - Military - Political - Social Puerto Rico portal
In 1932 the Puerto Rican Attorney General, aided by top-ranking Puerto Rican doctors, had investigated all of the work of Rhoads and the Rockefeller Project, including 13 deaths that occurred among nearly 300 patients treated. They found no evidence of wrongdoing or crimes. [5]