1 10 1 http://omeka.buffalolib.org/files/original/01a249643dee04bdb9b9870844b35f04.pdf a64ee88b43b0d233364d602ac68fa497 PDF Text Text Research Library 1 Museum Court Buffalo, New York 14216-3119 (716) 873-9644 ext. 306 FAX (716) 873-8754 www.buffalohistory.org library@buffalohistory.org Updated November 24, 2012 ©2012, all rights reserved. Buffalo Puerto Rican Series, 1970 – 2010 Mss. A2011-11 Call Number: Mss. A2011 - 11 Creator: Rodriguez, Casimiro and Sanabria, John Title: Buffalo Puerto Rican Collection Date(s): ca. 1970 - 2010 Language(s): Spanish, English Location: Manuscript room Size: 1 Box - .42 linear feet ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Acquisition Information: Accession no. 2011 - 52 Donor: Mr. Casimiro Rodriguez and Mr. John Sanabria Restrictions: None Preferred Citation: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Library and Archives, Mss. A2011 - 11 Buffalo Puerto Rican Collection Processing Information: Arranged and described by Shane E. Stephenson, August 2011. Notes: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Biographical / Historical Note: Both Casimiro Rodriguez and John Sanabria are Puerto Rican community leaders who have been active their whole adult lives in the Hispanic community in WNY. Both are retirees from GM where they were active in the local UAW chapter. They have served on various boards around WNY as well as the Board of Education. Mr. Rodriguez is a leader in the Association of Hispanic Pastors of WNY while Mr. Sanabria was heavily involved with the Agustin Olivencia Center and various Puerto Rican baseball leagues around WNY. They were also active in Hispanics United of Buffalo, a non-profit agency that serves the Hispanic population and were both instrumental in initiating and strengthening Hispanic Heritage Month in WNY. Scope and Content Note: This collection, comprised in various media formats, documents the Puerto Rican Community in the Buffalo and WNY region. Present are collections of community newspapers, various photographs – original, scanned, and on news clippings – showing various events, celebrations and traditions that take place within this community. Also included are biographical and historical records on important persons, various sports teams and the growth of Hispanic political and religious influence within the region. This collection is national in scope, including a letter addressed by President Bill Clinton to Casimiro Rodriguez. To gain physical and intellectual control over the collection, it is arranged in “original order” – the way it was donated to the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society. This keeps the collection true to the donors’ personal arrangement 1 �with an item level description added by BECHS. The bulk of this collection comprises 1970 – 2011 but there are a few items from 1900 – 1970. Arrangement: This collection is organized into eleven series by subject: 1. Puerto Rican sporting and community events – Miscellaneous 2. Agustin “Pucho” Olivencia 3. Alberto O. Cappas 4. Association of Hispanic Ministers, est. 1990 5. Latino newspapers – Panorama Hispano 6. Latino newspapers – Ultima Hora 7. Latino newspapers – La Prensa Hispana 8. Notable Latinos 9. Special events – Hispanic Heritage Month 10. Special events – Miscellaneous 11. Jaime Nunó ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Subject Headings: Alvarado, Confessor Berríos, Stephanie Calvo-Torres, Betty Cappas, Alberto O. Clinton, Bill, 1946Cuomo, Mario Matthew Friedlander, John E. Gauthier, Luis González, Isaías Griffin, James D. (James Donald), 1929Herrera, Pedro “Juan” Martínez, Jorge Masiello, Anthony M. Nunó, Jaime, 1824-1908 Olivencia, Agustín Padilla, Emilio Padilla, German “Pancho” Quintana, Robert Rodríguez, Antonio Rodríguez, Casimiro Rodríguez, Ramon Volcy, Paul Corner Stone Church D’Youville College Ecos Borincanos First Hispanic Democratic Club First Latino Democratic Club Forest Lawn (Cemetery: Buffalo, N.Y.) Hispanic Heritage Month Mes de la Herencia Hispana Lackawanna Spanish Welfare Association Olivencia Center Panorama Hispano Park Lane Restaurant (Buffalo, N.Y.) Prensa Hispana Puerto Rican Baseball League Liga de Béisbol de Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Community Center Puerto Rican Cultural Community House Puerto Rican Connection La Conexión Puertorriqueňa Puerto Rican Lions (Baseball team) Leones Puertorriqueños (Equipo de béisbol) Puerto Rican-American Community Association Inc. Roberto Clemente Baseball League Liga de Beisbol Roberto Clemente Spanish Action League (Syracuse, N.Y.) Liga de Acción Hispana (Syracuse, N.Y.) St. Columba Church (Buffalo, N.Y.) Three Kings Celebration Fiesta De los Tres Reyes Team PRACA Última Hora A Place in the Sun Association of Hispanic Pastors of Western New York Asociación de Pastores Hispanos del Noroeste de Nueva York Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.) Buffalo Missionary Church Buffalo News Business First of Buffalo (Firm) 2 �West Side Times Boletines de noticias Newspapers Periódicos Puerto Rican newspapers Periódicos Puertorriqueños Puerto Ricans Puertorriqueňos Radio Religion and culture Religión y cultura Soccer Fútbol Baseball Béisbol Boxing Boxeo Church history Historia de la iglesia Minorities in baseball Minorías en el béisbol National songs – Mexico Canciones Nacionales - Méxicanas Newsletters ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Folder List: Folder 1: Item 1: Scanned sepia photo, Lackawanna Spanish Welfare Association, soccer team, 1930 Item 2: Newspaper clipping, Roberto Clemente Baseball League, 1979 Item 3: Newspaper clipping, Roberto Clemente Baseball League, 1979 Item 4: Scanned color photo, Roberto Clemente Baseball League, 1976 champions – Team PRACA Item 5: DVD video of Virginia Street carnival and parade, 1978 – 1979 Item 6: Color photo, Mayor James Griffin and Ramon Rodriguez, founder of Roberto Clemente Baseball League Item 7: Color photo, Mayor James Griffin throwing the first pitch Item 8: Color photo, Pedro “Juan” Herrera, ceremonial pitch Item 8: Black and white photo, Puerto Rican Leonies, MUNY Class A Champions, 1962 Item 9: Photocopy, patch, Puerto Rico Lions, MUNY Champs 1962 Item 10: Scanned black and white photo, Puerto Rican Cultural Community House, Stephanie Berrios, 1973 Item 11: Scanned black and white signed photo, German “Pancho” Padilla, two times Golden Glove Champ Item 12: Original program, PRACA – 4th Annual Sports Award Dinner, October 14, 1979 Item 13: Scanned photocopy, association photo – First Hispanic Democratic Club, St. Columba’s Church, 1959 Folder 2: Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Item 5: Photocopy, Buffalo News article by Peter Simon, March 20, 1997, Agustin Olivencia remembrance Newspaper clipping, Buffalo News article by Peter Simon, July 2000, New Street to honor Olivencia Photocopy, Buffalo News article by Peter Simon, July 6, 1981, Puerto Rican meaning of friend Photocopy, Buffalo News article by Peter Simon, July 26, 1986, Crowd pays tribute to “Pucho” Autobiography of Mr. Agustin Olivencia, includes resume, awards, committees, and letter Folder 3: Item 1: Collection of photocopied newspaper clippings “A Place in the Sun” dinner with poet Alberto Cappas Item 2: Two photocopied newspaper clippings – The Queens Chronicle/The New York Voice, 1986 Item 3: Double issue of the newsletter “The Puerto Rican Connection/La Conexión Puertorriqueňa” Vol.1, No. 2; Winter 1997 Folder 4: Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Reseña Biografica of Association of Hispanic Pastors History and Mission of the Association of Hispanic Pastors of WNY Color photograph, “Pastoral Encounter,” June 4, 1990 at D’Youville College Color photograph, Hispanic Pastors Association, Oct. 27, 1995 at Park Lane Restaurant 3 �Item 5: Seal/logo of the Asociacion de Pastores Hispanos del Noroeste Nueva York Item 6: Letter from President Bill Clinton to Reverend Casimiro Rodriguez, letter includes a thank you for inscribed bible, and short greeting regarding the “event” - dated February 12, 1999 Item 7: Color photo of the Reverends Alvarado, Martinez and Padilla at Buffalo Missionary Church (Hudson St.), Oct. 5, 2000 Item 8: Color scanned photo, Recognition Retirement Service for Reverend Luis Gauthier at Corner Stone Church, 1995 Item 9: Issue “West Side Times,” lead article – “Partnership in diversity: Association of Hispanic Pastors headquarters soon to open,” June 2000 Item 10: Color photo of dedication of the new headquarters for the Association of Hispanic Pastors of WNY Item 11: Color photo of dedication of the new headquarters for the Association of Hispanic Pastors, featuring Mayor Anthony Masiello Item 12: Invitation notice for dedication ceremony Item 13: Issue “KaleidaScope” - short article with Association of Hispanic Pastors of WNY honoring Kaleida, Oct./Nov.1999 Item 14: Black and white photo of the CEO of Kaleida Health, John E. Friedlander, being honored by the Association of Hispanic Pastors of WNY Item 15: Four anniversary dinner programs for Association of Hispanic Pastors of WNY: 1991, 1992, 1993, 2001 Item 16: “La Iglesia Y La Comunidad” by Reverend Joaquin Peña – 13 page document – written in Spanish Folder 5: Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Item 5: Item 6: Issue: Panorama Hispano, Vol. 4 No. 4: Marzo/March, 2000 Issue: Panorama Hispano, Vol. 18 No. 9: Septiembre/September 2008 Issue: Panorama Hispano, Vol. 20 No. 7: Julio/July 2009 Issue: Panorama Hispano, Vol. 20 No. 8: Agosto/August 2009 Issue: Panorama Hispano, Vol. 20 No. 12: Diciembre/December 2009 Issue: Panorama Hispano, Vol. 21 No. 6: Junio/June 2010 Folder 6: Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Issue: La Ultima Hora, Vol. 1 No. 1: Mayo/May 1, 1989 Issue: La Ultima Hora, Vol. 8 Issue 1: Enero/January 1998 Issue: La Ultima Hora, Vol. 10 Issue 3: Marzo/March 1999 Issue: La Ultima Hora, Vol. 22 Issue 9: Septiembre/September 2009 Folder 7: Item 1: Issue: La Prensa Hispana, Vol. 1 No. 2: Octubre/October 5, 1990 Item 2: Shrunken reproduction of La Prensa Hispana, front page Folder 8: Packet of Isaias Gonzalez including obituary, dedication and request materials for 7th St. renaming Scanned photograph, First Hispanic Radio Programming in WNY, “Ecos Borincanos” Est. 1960 Newspaper article by Agnes Palazzetti – Robert Quintana, July 28, 1994 Business First articles: First Hispanic woman named to City Court, Masiello names new City Court judge, Common Council Inauguration Item 5: Scanned photograph, First Latino Democratic Club, 1960 at St. Columba Church; photo by Lydia Rodriguez Item 6: Scanned photograph, Pedro J. Herrera is recognized by Isaias Gonzolez for Puerto Rican Baseball League Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Folder 9: Item 1: News clipping “Annual Community Festival Held” Item 2: Hispanic Heritage Festival program, September 17 & 18, 1988 4 �Item 3: Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff notice, September 15, Downtown Library Item 4: Article “Puertorican [sic] Origin” – 7 page introduction to words, phrases and influences Folder 10: Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Item 5: News clipping by Michael Levy – “Remember Heritage,” September 1990 Photograph, Fiesta De Los Tres Reyes, Enero (January) 8, 1977, with news clipping News clipping of Minority Graduation held at UB, May 5, 1977 Scanned photograph of Spanish Club float, 1957 parade News clipping “Politicians Attend Puerto Rican Mass,” January 1, 1974 Folder 11: Item 1: Copied items from BECPL scrapbook regarding life of Jaime Nunó – Composer of Mexican National Hymn Item 2: 4 color photographs of Jaime Nunó gravestone – buried Forest Lawn, moved to Mexico City Item 3: Photocopies of secondary sources - “Find a Grave Memorial” website page, “Wikipedia” page, “National anthems info” page, burial records from Forest Lawn Cemetery 5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hispanic Heritage History Project Documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hispanic Heritage Council of WNY, INC Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Buffalo History Museum Research Library Title A name given to the resource Buffalo History Museum Puerto Rican collection Description An account of the resource This collection, comprised in various media formats, documents the Puerto Rican Community in the Buffalo and WNY region. Present are collections of community newspapers, various photographs – original, scanned, and on news clippings – showing various events, celebrations and traditions that take place within this community. Also included are biographical and historical records on important persons, various sports teams and the growth of Hispanic political and religious influence within the region. This collection is national in scope, including a letter addressed by President Bill Clinton to Casimiro Rodriguez. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Buffalo History Museum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/2011 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Written permission from the Buffalo History Museum required to reproduce and/or publish. Information on use and fees may be obtained from the Director of Library and Archives at the Buffalo History Museum Research Library, Buffalo, NY.