Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Century Perspectives portrays the early history of the
commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political
writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General
Collections. Among the topics it highlights are the land and its
resources, relations with Spain, the competition among political
parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the
Spanish-American War. The materials in the collection were published
between 1831 and 1929 and consist of 39 political pamphlets, 18
monographs, and 1 journal. The large majority of materials in this
collection are in Spanish.
This collection can be found at <www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/prhtml/>
Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov