Spotlight Exhibit Series

  ABC de Puerto Rico
  ABC de Puerto Rico. Wing ZP 983 .T745
   
   
  Puerto Rico map
  Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen
der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie

Vault Ayer 1000 .L2 1644 Gift of Edward E. Ayer

500 Años de Historia Puertorriqueña
a través de los Ojos de Otros

500 Years of Puerto Rican History
through the Eyes of Others
June 5 - July 12, 2008

Curators

Maria Cantos Christine Medina Maria Ramos
Warren Elmore Maura Medina Abimael Reillo
Sarah Figueroa Catalina Mendez Marisol Roman
Vincent Figueroa Ariel Ramos Nicole Williams

La exhibición fue organizada, planeada y producida en cooperación con Saúl Meléndez y Héctor Vázquez, ambos maestros de la Escuela Superior Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos y John Vincler, asistente graduado de la Escuela Graduada de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign

The exhibit was organized, planned, and produced in cooperation with Saúl Meléndez and Héctor Vázquez, both teachers at the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School, and John Vincler, a graduate assistant in the Community Informatics Initiative of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Descripción de la exhibicion

La exhibición "500 Años de Historia Puertorriqueña a través de los Ojos de Otros" explora la historia de Puerto Rico a través de la mitad de un milenio, empezando con la llegada de Cristóbal Colón en el 1493 a una isla que sus habitantes, los Taínos, llamaban Boriquén y extendiéndose hasta la Guerra Hispanoamericana del 1898. A través de objetos escritos y redactados por personas que en su mayoría no eran puertorriqueñas, la exhibición examina y delinea los intereses y objetivos de exploradores, viajeros, gobiernos, artistas, soldados, comerciantes, e historiadores atraídos por Puerto Rico.

Esta primera exhibición de materiales puertorriqueños que forma parte de la colección de la Biblioteca Newberry fue planeada y organizada por estudiantes de la Escuela Secundaria Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos localizada en la comunidad de Humboldt Park.

Description of the Exhibition

"500 Years of Puerto Rican History through the Eyes of Others" explores the history of Puerto Rico over half a millennium, beginning roughly with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1493 to an island called Boriquén by its inhabitants, the Taínos, and extending through the Spanish-American War of 1898. Through objects written and drafted mostly by people other than Puerto Ricans, the exhibit looks at and charts the interests and aims of explorers, travelers, governments, artists, soldiers, merchants, and historians attracted to Puerto Rico.

This first-ever exhibit of Puerto Rican materials held in the Newberry Library's collection was planned and organized with student curators from the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School in Humboldt Park.

Object List

Puerto Rico Antiguo
Early Puerto Rico

Discours of voyages East & West Indies
Jan Huygen van Linschoten. London: J. Wolfe, 1598
Case folio G 131 .506

Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische compagnie
Joannes de Laet. Leyden: Bonaventuer ende Abraham Elsevier, 1644
Vault Ayer 1000 .L2 1644 Gift of Edward E. Ayer

A Complete historical, chronological, and geographical American atlas; a guide to the history of North and South America, and the West Indies
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1822
Greenlee +4891 .C27 1822

Voyage aux îles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto Ricco
André Pierre Ledru. Paris: A. Bertrand, 1810
Ayer 956 .L47 1810 Gift of Edward E. Ayer

Esclavitud, raza y Identidad etnica
Slavery, Race, and Ethnic Identity

ABC de Puerto Rico
Rubén del Rosario and Isabel Freire de Matos, illustrated by Antonio Martorell. Sharon, Conn.: Troutman Press, 1968
Wing ZP 983 .T745

Copy of a promissory note regarding a loan to cover expenses related to purchase of African slaves
Domingo de Fonseca. Manuscript; April 1, 1639
Vault box Ayer MS 1089 Gift of Edward E. Ayer

An account of the present state of the island of Puerto Rico
George Dawson Flinter. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834
G 975 .3

Imperialismo, Resistancia, Ambivilancia, y Xenofobia
Imperialism, Resistance, Ambivalence, Xenophobia

Real estate for sale; Apply at the President's Office, Washington, D. C.
Collage on paper, after 1898
Map4F G3690 1899 R3

Porto Rico: a broken pledge
Bailey W. Diffie and Justine W. Diffie. New York: Vanguard Press (American imperialism series), ca. 1931
F 975 .23

Puerto Rico en Fotografías
Puerto Rico in Pictures

Our islands and their people as seen with camera and pencil
José de Olivares, photography by Walter B. Townsend, edited by William S. Bryan. St. Louis, New York: N.D. Thompson Pub. Co., [1899-1900]
Case oversize F970 .O54 1899 Gift of James Albert Hermes

Photographs of Puerto Rico
William Voorhees Judson
MMS Judson, Series 5, Box 6, Folders 309 & 310

Antes y después de la Guerra hispanoamericana
Before and After the Spanish-American War

New constitution establishing self-government in the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico
New York: At the Office of "Cuba," 1898
J 5973 .834

Report on the island of Porto Rico; its population, civil government, commerce, industries, productions, roads, tariff, and currency
Henry K. Carroll. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899 [1900]
Govt. T 1.17 :P832