COLLECTION
Puerto Rican Day Parade
Identifier
CL_UF_PRP.114.008 (local)
Alternate Title
Taino Petroglyphs (Alternative Title)
Date
September 2000 (Date created)
Summary
An annual event, the National Puerto Rican Day Parade is held along 5th Avenue in Manhattan. The parade was started in 1958, when Desfile Puerttoriqueno, Inc. held it in Harlem. The images in this collection are of people and events happening in 2000.,The Taino were the indiginous people of Puerto Rico. Some parade-goers and participants wear traditional Taino jewelry or accessories, or have spray painted signs and rocks with Taino petroglyphs
Extent
16 (Color Slides)
Language
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