LibGuides: Hartford History Center Subject Guides: Caribbean Heritage

Audio/Visual

Hartford Times Photograph Collection:

Contest

Miss Puerto Rico, box 54, folder 3

Demonstrations

Cuban Americans, box 57, folder 17

Holidays

Puerto Rico Day, box 84, folder 2

Population Characteristics

Puerto Ricans, box 99, folders 17-18

Sports

General, box 108, folder 1 (2 photographs of Cricket)

Biography

Bennett, Colin B.

Sanchez, Maria

Carty, Edwin B. (President of the Caribbean-American Society)

Butch Lewis Video Collection:

Senora Nunez y Sus Vecinos (video in three parts, in Spanish, with English subtitles): Interview with Senora Nunez of Hartford and Her Neighbors

Biggs, Julian

Colin Bennett: a Realtor Speaks (video and transcript)

Biggs, Julian (Creator)

Comerienos Ausentes (video in two parts): Early Puerto Rican Parade, Hartford, 1969

Biggs, Julian (Creator)

Los Puertorriquenos y el Corte (video in two parts, in Spanish, with English subtitles)

Biggs, Julian (Creator)

Una Conversacion (video in two parts, in Spanish, with English subtitles)

Biggs, Julian (Creator)

Y Uno Mas. El Idioma (video in three parts, in Spanish)

Biggs, Julian (Creator)

Collections and Manuscripts

Cricket Hall of Fame Collection

Programs for the Six-A-Side Tournament (1998, 2000)

“Connecticut Cricket Classics”. Souvenir Booklet. 1994.

The Cricket Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony . Program. September 29, 2001.

Friendship Album

Call Number : MS 1827 DICKINSON

Publication Date: 1827-1828

Jamaica

Marc-Yves Regis Collection

Hartford as Home. Exhibition April 2003

50 photographs documenting life in Hartford's North End.

Subjects include dominoes, cricket, soccer, dance, music, and more.

Mantra

Hilliman, Elijah

Call Number: MS 2018 HILLIMAN

Publication Date: 2018

West Indies

Real Art Ways Collection

1989 – 2007

None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists. 2004.

Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art. A multimedia exhibit, November 14, 2009 – March 14, 2010.

Periodicals

Hartford Times

The Negro in Hartford

Special report published Novembe 26, 1963.

Bound by the Hartford Public Library Reference Department, April 1964.

The West Indian American.

Call Number: PERIODICAL/W HCOLL

Publication Date: 1992-2015

Vertical Files

Biography:

Bennett, Colin B.

Sanchez, Maria

Soto, Mildred Torres

Demographics:

Hispanics

Multiculturalism

Puerto Ricans

History:

Tobacco Valley

Hartford Imprints

The History of the Pirates: Containing the Lives of Those Noted Pirate Captains, Misson, Bowen, Kidd, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly, Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, North, and their Several Crews. Also, an Account of the Piracies and Cruelties of John Augur, William Cunningham, Dennis Mackarthy, William Dowling, William Lewis, Thomas Morris, George Bendall, and William Ling, who were Tried, Condemned, and Executed at Nassau, New Providence, on the Tenth of December, 1718: To which is Added, a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West Indies; and the Expedition of Commodore Porter.

Benton, Henry, 1803-1863, publisher.

Call Number : HI 1829 BENTON

Publication Date: 1829

West Indies

The Two Putnams, Israel and Rufus, in the Havana Expedition 1762, and in the Mississippi River Exploration 1772-73, with Some Account of the Company of Military Adventurers.

Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790.

Call Number: HI 1931 PUTNAM

Publication Date: 1931

Cuba

Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, the Cuban Martyr. Being a Faithful Record of his Remarkable Career from Childhood to the Time of his Heroic Death at the Hands of Spanish Executioners; Recounting his Experiences as an Officer in the U.S. and Confederate Navies, and Revealing Much of the Inner History and Secret Marine Service of the Late Civil War in America.

Walker, Jeanie Mort.

Call Number: HI 1875 WALKER

Publication Date: 1875

Cuba

Pamphlets

1968 West Indian Week: Sixth Anniversary

Independence Celebration.

West Indian Association of Hartford. 32 pgs.

1976 A Week of Puerto Rican Culture to

Commemorate the 483rd Anniversary of the

Discovery of Puerto Rico.

Federation of Hispanic Women. 2 pgs.

1977 West Indian Week: 15th Anniversary Celebration.

City of Hartford. 54 pgs.

1982 4th Festival San Juan Bautista.

San Juan Bautista. 12 pgs.

1989 Development of Hartford’s Puerto Rican Community.

La Casa de Puerto Rico. 4 pgs.

Books

The Housing Crisis and the Hispanic Community.

Casa de Puerto Rico, Inc.

Call Number: HD7304.H3

Publication Date: 1979

Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

Farrow, Anne.

Call Number: E441 .F35 2006

Publication Date: 2005-2006

West Indies

Puerto Rico Past and Present: an Encyclopedia.

Fernandez, Ronald.

Call Number: F1954 .F47 1998

Publication Date: 1998

Spanish and English Ruins in Jamaica, with a Brief History of that Tropical Paradise since it was Discovered by Christopher Columbus, the Great Navigator, and Settled by His Son, Don Diego Colon in 1509 as Duke of Veragua.

Goodwin, William Brownell, 1866-

Call Number: F1884 .G6

Publication Date: 1946

Jamaica

Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian patriots in the Revolutionary War: a Guide to Service, Sources and Studies

Grundset, Eric.

Call Number: E269.N3 G78 2008 HCOLL OVERSIZE

Publication Date: 2008

West Indies

Soldiers of the Soil

Johnson, Fay Clarke.

Call Number: HD8039 .T62 N6

Publication Date: 1995

Edition: First edition

Jamaica/West Indies

Jamaica Gallery: a Documentary of the Island of Jamaica, West Indies: the Text, Drawings & Designs

Kappel, Philip.

Call Number: F1872 .K28

Publication Date: 1960

Jamaica

Near a Far Sea: a Jamaican Odyssey

Noel, Don.

Call Number: F1868 .N43 2006 HCOLL

Publication Date: 2006

Jamaica

Puerto Rico: Memorias de mi Isla

Rodríguez, Eli S.

Call Number: F1958.5 .R6 J

Publication Date: 1989

Language: Spanish

African American Connecticut: African Origins, New England Roots.

Stone, Frank A.

Call Number: E185.93.C7

Publication Date: 1991

West Indies, Haiti

Puerto Rico es Poesía.

T.J. Quirk Students' Pub. Co., Hartford, CT

Call Number: PQ6172.P8 1989 HCOLL

Publication Date: 1989

Language: Spanish

The Commuter Nation: Perspectives on Puerto Rican Migration.

Torre, Carlos Antonio.

Call Number: JV7381 .C66 1994

Publication Date: 1994

Puerto Rico: Commonwealth Election Law and its Application to a Political Status Referendum: Report to the Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate.

United States. General Accounting Office.

Call Number: JL1059 .A2 P83 1990 HCOLL OVERSIZE

Publication Date: 1990

Secretaries of the Moon: the Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo (Cuba)

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Call Number: PS3537 .T4753 Z496

Publication Date: 1986