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Latin American & Caribbean Microform Collections: Puerto Rico

A list by country of Yale's most important primary source microfilm collections

Puerto Rican Collections

Puerto Rican records, 1899.

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. 1 reel, 35mm.

SML Microform - FILM  MISC 929

The records are composed of inventories of Puerto Rican records transferred to the United States following the end of the Spanish American War. Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto Rican scholar, selected and inventoried 2,246 legajos (bundles) of eighteenth and nineteenth century records, which were shipped to the Library of Congress between 1899 and 1900. Some of these records were subsequently returned to Puerto Rico or destroyed.

 * U.S. consul despatches, listed below, are arranged in chronological order. The records include reports to the Department of State from diplomatic representatives of the United States stationed abroad and may consist of notes, correspondence, clippings and other materials exchanged with foreign officials. Originals at National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.

United States. Dept. of State. Despatches from United States consular representatives in Puerto Rico, 1821-1899.

Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Service. 31 reels, 35mm.

SML Microform - FILM  RG 59 M-76

The records include reports to the Department of State from diplomatic representatives of the United States stationed abroad and may consist of notes, correspondence, clippings and other materials exchanged with foreign officials.rranged in chronological order.  Originals at National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.

 

Puerto Rico Libre by Juan Sanchez