Browse Collections (13 total)

The repository for digital editions of the full run of The Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 1962–present, the premier publication on Bronx…

The collection comprises documents gathered by Gelvin Stevenson related to housing studies done on Bronx real estate abandonment and housing along the…

The archival collection comprises information gathered by David M. Carp concerning the Latin and jazz music scenes in The Bronx, particularly between…

Perhaps the first Black newspaper focused in part on the African American community in Morrisania in The Bronx, which began to see a major influx of…

The Phil Newsum photograph collection comes from the noted jazz and Latin percussionist, Phil Newsum, and was acquired through the efforts of The…

Finding aid available here.Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The…

Gil Fagiani (1945–2018) was a poet, translator, essayist, short-story writer, memoirist, revolutionary, father, husband, and mental healthcare worker.…

Joseph W. McCarthy (1915–1980) met Jackie Robinson in the mid-1950s and helped Robinson utilize the papers in this collection to write a series of…

The Bronx Latino History Project is a community-based oral history project currently under the direction of Dr. Melissa Castillo Planas, Assistant…

Finding aid available.Daniel (Danny) Argote (March 20, 1938–May 26, 2017) was born in Harlem, New York, son of Juan Bautista Argote and Asunción…

Finding aid available.Mariposa María Teresa Fernández (1971–) is a Puerto Rican poet and performance artist born and raised in The Bronx. She was the…

Finding aid available.Esperanza Martell was born to Nationalist parents in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a colony of the U.S., in 1946. Her family was part of…

The Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project is a collaboration between Kurt Boone, veteran documentarian of urban culture in New York City, and Dr.…