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Puerto Rican Cultural Center collection

Members of the Puerto Rican and Latinx community in Chicago established the non-proft Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) in 1973 to address the social and cultural needs of the West Town and Humboldt Park community. The collection contains printed documents produced and published by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center including newspapers, flyers, programs, and books. Photographs, ephemera, and memorabilia from the center are also included.

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Building mural
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A Cultural Center building mural of Pedro Albizu Campos.
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Centro Cultural
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Exterior wall of the previous building that housed the Cultural Center displaying murals and portraits ofnationalism, heritage, and political activists.
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Centro Cultural
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Exterior wall of the previous building that housed the Cultural Center displaying murals and portraits ofnationalism, heritage, and political activists.
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Dylcia Pagán and Ida Luz Rodríguez portraits displayed at the Centro Cultural, Puerto Rican Cultural Center
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Dylcia Pagán and Ida Luz Rodríguez were 2 of the 11 members of the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena) and participated in the independence movement. The portraits are in the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.
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Escuela Superior Puertorriquena Rafael Cancel Miranda
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Exterior of building occupied by the Escuela Superior Puertorriquena Rafael Cancel Miranda.
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Escuela Superior Puertorriquena Rafael Cancel Miranda
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Exterior of building occupied by the Escuela Superior Puertorriquena Rafael Cancel Miranda.
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Escuela Superior Puertorriquena Rafael Cancel Miranda banner and murals adorn the Centro Cultural
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Escuela Superior Puertorriquena Rafael Cancel Miranda banner and murals on the exterior of the Centro Cultural building.
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Interior of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center
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Interior of the Cultural Center showing posters and artwork, primarily depictingpolitcal prisoners.
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Mural
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Public art mural of apolitical figure.
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Mural
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Mural art in the Humboldt Park community.
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Mural
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Mural art in the Humboldt Park community.
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Mural
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Mural of several people standing together with flags raised, on yellow and green background.
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Mural
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Mural of figure with flags.
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Mural in a stairwell
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Mural in the stairwell of the Cultural Center containing the translated text: "Knowledge, taking the world, the concern in some circles of color and that, in my feeling, was enough for that person to depart from you ... ."
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Mural on side of building
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Mural on the side of a building
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Mural portrait paintings of incarcerated Puerto Rican nationalists in the Library at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center
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The library serving the Cultural Center and the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School displays large murals and portraits of nationalists who are prisoners.
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Murals displayed at Centro Cultural
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Exterior wall of the previous building which housed the Cultural Center displaying murals ofnationalists.
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Paintings
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Mural paintings stored in an office.
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Paseo Boricua
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Paseo Boricua, two street end flags standing fifty-nine feet tall made of steel, anchor a commercial corridor of neighborhood shops and restaurants in the West Town, Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago.
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Pedro Albizu Campos Statue
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Uncrating of a public sculpture of Pedro Albizu Campos.
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Speakers in front of Mural
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PRCC Executive Director José López and two women in front of a mural in West Town.
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Statue of Pedro Albizu Campos
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Dedication of Pedro Albizu Campos Statue to Chicago's community.
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Statue of Pedro Albizu Campos
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Pedro Albizu Campos statue being dedicated to Chicago's community.
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Students painting a mural
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Two students creating a mural on a brickwall.
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Students painting a mural
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Students painting a mural.
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Students painting a mural
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Students painting a mural.
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Students sitting at a table beneath murals of political figures
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Students sit gather at a table beneath large murals ofhistoric and cultural figures.
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Students standing in front of mural
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Two students stand in front of anationalist wall mural.
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Tshirt stenciled with Puerto Rican flag
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Tshirt stenciled with flag
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Unidad Mural
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Mural in the Humboldt Park or West Town community area.
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Wall Mural
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Wall Mural on the side of building in the West Side or Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago.
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Working on a Mural
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Ladders propped up against a mural on the side of a building.
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Young people in front of political mural
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Young people in front of a mural.
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Young people sitting beneath murals of Puerto Rican political figures
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Young people sitting beneath murals of political figures [Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figuerda Cordero, Lolita Libron].
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Collection Details

Repository
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Collection Type
Manuscript Collections
Collection Location
Richard J. Daley Library
Theme:
Neighborhoods & Community Organizations
Politics & Civic Life
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