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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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Gathering of demonstrators
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Demonstrators gathered outside the Humboldt Park Refectory.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Gathering of demonstrators
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Demonstrators gathered by a fountain near Humboldt Park Refectory.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Giving a speech
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A woman gives a speech.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Group of Students
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A group of students, probably from the Pedro Albizu Campos High School.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Group of community members
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Community group members posing for a photograph.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Group of students sitting in folding chairs
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Group of students in a meeting.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Group of young adults
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Group of young adults gathered on the steps of a building.
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Group of young people
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Group of students pose for a photograph.
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Group of young people outdoors
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Group of young people posed on the grass outdoors.
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Group portrait of students
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Group portrait of students.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Group portrait of students with Puerto Rican flag
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Group portrait of students holding theflag in the library.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Haunted Paseo Boricua
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Haunted Paseo Boricua invitation and informational flier.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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High School Without Walls
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Brochure for the High School Without Walls, a progressive educational program serving the needs of urban adult students in the Humboldt Park and West Town neighborhoods. Page 4 was not scanned.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Homenaje a la Patriota y Poetisa Revolucionaria Consuelo Lee Corretjer
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Invitation to an event honoring poet Consuelo Lee Corretjer.
Date:
June 15, 1985
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Huellas: Avanzada Estetica por la Liberacion Nacional (Selected pages)
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Selected pages from a catalog for an exhibition catalog of contemporaryart curated by Juan Sanchez and held in New York on August 3-31, 1988 at La Galeria en el, B O H I O, 605 East 9th Street Loisada, New York/
Date:
1988
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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If You Own Your Home, Don't Sell! If You Rent, Don't Move! Stop the Takeover of Our Community!
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Flier encouraging residents to resist gentrification of the Paseo Boricua neighborhood.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Ignacio Mendez
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Candid picture of Igancio Mendez, an instructor at the Pedro Albizu Campos High School.
Date:
June 30, 1983
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Ignacio Mendez
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Ignacio Mendez was an instructor at the Pedro Albizu Campos High School.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Illustrated letter
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A handwritten letter on brown paper with a color drawing on verso.
Date:
September 26, 1988
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Illustration from Más Bonita Se Viera...
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Illustration of flag on a guillotine with the American Flag represented as the blade. Text on this page reads "¡Mas Bonita se Viera Si Los Yanquis No La Tuvieran!; La Independencia es un Requisito; ¡Dile No al Plebiscito" from political publication, Más Bonita Se Viera.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Illustration from Más Bonita Se Viera...
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Illustration of flag behind caption, "¡Que Bonita Bandera!" from political publication, Más Bonita Se Viera...
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Illustration from the newspaper publication, La Patria Libre
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An illustration, "El Grito de Lares" with text about theindependence movement in 1868 featured on the back page of the publication, La Patria Libre.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Illustration of Don Pedro
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Centennial celebration drawing of Pedro Albizu Campos, apolitician and a leading figures in the independence movement.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Illustration of Puerto Rican Flag from " ...De que Allá las condiciones coloniales de opresión y explotación son las mismas..."
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Illustration of flag behind captions, "¿Consulta? ¿Estadidad? ¿Status? ¿ELA? ¿Plebiscito? ¿Independencia? ¿Referendum? ¿De Que Estamos Hablando?" from political publication"...De que Allá las condiciones coloniales de opresión y explotación son las mismas..."
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Iluminaste el Sendero Hacia la Nueva Sociedad
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Memorial program for Bartolo Hernandez de Jesus.
Date:
July 20, 1989
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Imagines contru el SIDA exhibition
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People at opening of "Imagines contru el SIDA" exhibition
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Imagines contru el SIDA exhibition
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People standing near posters at opening of "Imagines contru el SIDA" exhibition
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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In Memoriam, Consuelo Lee Corretjer
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Memorial tribute brochure for Consuelo Lee Corretjer.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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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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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Invitation to a graduation ceremony
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Invitation to a graduation ceremony at the Cultural Center day care center.
Date:
June 18, 1982
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Invitation to a reception and dedication
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Invitation to the 6th anniversary celebration of the Rafael Cencel Miranda High School and the dedication of the Andres Figueroa Cordero Resource Center.
Date:
January 9, 1979
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Invitation to activities
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Invitation and calendar of community events issued by the Centro Cultural Puertorriqueno.
Date:
April 17, 1978
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Invitation to join parade
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Invitationto an organization to participate in the 10th annual neighborhood parade to celebratecultural identity and protest daily injustices.
Date:
June 3, 1987
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Jornada 100 x 35
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Save the dates card for year-long celebration of Cultural Center anniversary.
Date:
March 3, 2008
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Jornada 100 x 35: Philosophy and Programs
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Brochure of programs and events for Jornada 100 x 35 anniversary celebration and fund raising campaign for the Cultural Center.
Date:
March 3, 2008
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López and speaker at public political rally
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) and speaker at public political rally.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López and unidentified woman
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Executive Director of the Cultural Center, José López and an unidentified woman.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López outside Cultural Center at community event
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) outside Cultural Center at community event.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López speaking
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) behind a podium speaking.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López speaking at community event
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) speaking at community event.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López speaking at political rally
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) speaking at political rally on Division Street in Chicago.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López with a crowd at a political rally
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) with a crowd at a political rally.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López with group at an anti US Navy in Vieques rally
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) and Jesse Jackson Sr. (to López's right) with group rallying against US Navy bombing in Vieques.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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José López with guest speaker
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José López (Executive Director of the Cultural Center) on a stage with a guest speaker.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center Flyer
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Informational flier on the Juan Antonio Corretjer Cultural Center.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Inc.
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Letterhead
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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La Criminalidad y la Crisis de las Priones en Puerto Rico (Front and back)
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Front and back covers of book about prisons in Puerto Rico.
Date:
1982
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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La Patria Libre : La Voz de Independentismo en la Retaguardia Pulicación Ocasional Vol. I, Num. II<
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First and last pages of a 1981 edition of La Patria Libre newspaper.
Date:
1981
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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La Voz del Paseo Boricua ; March 2007; vol. 4, no.1 (Selected pages)
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La Voz del Paseo Boricua Newspaper.
Date:
March 1, 2007
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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La Voz del Paseo Boricua; April 2007; vol. 4, no. 2 (Spanish and English covers)
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English and Spanish covers from La Voz del Paseo Boricua Newspaper
Date:
April 1, 2007
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
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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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