Puerto Ricans in New York City

Accession number X2011.4.12019

Unique identifier MN1144008

Description Photographs of Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Depicts men, women, and children arriving and claiming baggage at the New York International Airport, as well as various aspects of their lives in East Harlem, including tenements, churches, shops, swimming pools, and block parties. Date of assignment June-August 1953. Contact print frames: 1,068
Also includes two sheets of paper containing captions for the photographs, as well as three pamphlets in Spanish.

Dated 1953

Object Type contact sheet

Medium contact print

Physical dimensions Object Dimensions 8 x 10 in

File dimensions 17.3 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 46.5 cm at 300dpi

East Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Emigration & immigration

John F. Kennedy International Airport