José Rafael Méndez Leonela Medina Baez

Description

Méndez talks about the passenger lists of the New York &Porto Rico Steamship Co., which includes important people from the Puerto Rican community such as Jesús Colón and Antonia Pantoja. He emphasizes that through his steamship collection he can document the movement of the diaspora from Brooklyn to the Bronx.

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Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Library and Archives

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Empire State Digital Network