This series is designed to provide general information about Puerto Rico and has been divided into nine subseries. The subseries have been designed to offer a panoramic view of the island: art, culture, history, literature, music, biographies, natural resources, and municipalities of Puerto Rico. Documents within each subseries are arranged in alphabetical order.

There is a large amount of Puerto Rican publications and periodicals, circa 1960s-2000s, such as journals, magazines, and newspapers. Titles in this series include: Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueno, Revista Domingo, El Dia, Claridad, Dialogo, and other titles.

Culture materials include: booklets, photocopies of research and reference materials, newsletters, pamphlets, publications, an art catalog, educational materials, and other documents relating to Puerto Rican culture.

Materials on natural resources include: maps, pamphlets/printed matter, and research/reference materials pertaining to various wildlife, beaches, and other natural resources in Puerto Rico.

Materials from municipalities, circa 1980s-1990s, are organized by municipality and include: magazines, photographs, typed letters, newsletters, photocopies of materials relating to the municipality, newspapers and newspaper clippings.

Miscellaneous materials, circa 1970s-2000s, include: publications relating to a variety of subjects, calendars, newspaper clippings, booklets, travel planners and guides for Puerto Rico, materials relating to the history of Puerto Rico, and other items.

The immigration series covers various aspects not only of the Puerto Rican community in the Delaware Valley region, but other Latino groups and minorites in the United States. The immigration subseries include: Puerto Ricans in the United States, Latinos general, Latino art, Latino activities, directory of resources, paper clips 1989-1990, paper clips 1991-1992, and ethnic minorities. The Latino activities and the paper clips subseries of this are organized chronologically. The rest of the series are sorted in alphabetical order.

There is a large amount of magazines and other publications, circa 1970s-1990s, in this series. Titles represented in this series include: Revista Chica-riqueña, Tonantzin, Nuestro Hispanic, AHA!, Hispanic Link Weekly Report, and other publications.

Puerto Ricans in the United States includes: newspaper clippings, photocopies of newspaper and research articles, reports, newsletters, and other materials.

Latino general information includes: publications, newspapers, newsletters, materials from the Governor's Council in the hispanic community in Harrisburg, flyers and newsletters from the Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and other materials.

Latino art materials include: book press releases, newspaper articles and photocopies of them, publications, printed matter from events (e.g. postcards, publicity packets, catalogs from exhibits), and other materials.

Latino activities materials include: materials relating to Latino art and poetry exhibits; lectures and other planned activities relating to theater, music, and dance; materials from the Latin American Cultures program at the University of Pennsylvania, and other materials.

Directory of Resources contains reference materials relating to various Puerto Rican related resources for health management, immigration, cultural events, and other issues, as well as reference materials realted to archives and preservation.

The Paper Clips subseries contains packets of photocopied newspaper clippings from the Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission titled "Press Clips" and packets of photocopied newspaper clippings from the Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs titled "Noticias Clips."

The Ethnic minorities subseries contains materials on African Americans, Balch Institute publications, newspaper clippings and photocopies of newspaper clippings, city schools statistics as they relate to minority groups, materials on housing, and other documents.

This series contains two important oral history projects conducted in the Puerto Rican community in Philadelphia during the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The project "Batiendo La Olla" contains an impressive collection of oral interviews available in transcriptions and audiocassettes. Once arranged, this study will be an important resource for researchers focusing on the immigration and formation of the Puerto Rican community in Philadelphia. These materials are organized into the following subseries based on project name: Los Barrios and Batiendo la Olla. The subseries are organized into administrative papers and transcriptions (if transcriptions are available).

Los Barrios materials, circa 1980s, include: grant applications and related materials, letters from NEH, budget materials, research for the oral history project on cultural identity and other topics (locations, Puerto Ricans in the US), correspondence, interview questions asked (in English and Spanish), authorization forms, field reports, evaluations, release forms, interview techniques, job descriptions and resumes of people working on the project, manuals for equipment used for recording interviews, letters to persons being interviewed (in English and Spanish), monthly reports, memos, names and addresses of participants, final report, youth projects, orientation forms, parental authorization forms, personnel manuals, photography projects, media and publicity materials relating to the oral history project (mostly newspaper clippings), advisory board materials, schedules, staff meeting minutes, task sheets, materials relating to Temple and the Urban Archives, materials relating to workshops held, and other papers.

Batiendo la Olla materials include: agendas, addresses of participants, biographies of interviewers, abstracts of project, budget materials, correspondence, manuals, final report, quarterly reports, evaluations, field notes, questions, audiocassette inventories, literature about film and photography conference materials, NEA materials and reports, a notebook, publicity materials relating to the project (mostly articles), proposals to NEH, interview letters, tape logs, transcriptions (mostly handwritten, some typed), publications produced from the project such as excerpts from the oral histories, and photographs.

Negatives from the Los Barrios project can be found in the Photographs record group.

This series documents the activities and administration of Taller Puertorriqueño from 1974 to 2002. The subseries are divided into administrative papers, activities, miscellaneous, and Christmas cards. These subseries are arranged chronologically and alphabetically.

Subseries i. Administrative papers, circa 1970s-1990s, is organized chronologically and includes: financial materials, newspaper articles, handwritten notes, correspondence, publicity materials, mailing lists, membership manuals, grant funding materials, meeting agendas and notes, fundraising materials, newsletters, citations from city, and other materials.

Subseries ii: Activities, circa 1980s-2002, is organized chronologically and includes: flyers for events, newspaper clippings and press releases about events, printed matter and marketing materials for events, anniversary publications, exhibit catalogs, correspondence, and other materials.

Subseries iii. Miscellaneous is organized alphabetically and includes: articles of incorportion, newsletters, board member lists, printed matter from TP, printed materials and packets from funders in the Philadelphia area, and other materials.

Subseries iv. Christmas cards includes miscellaneous Christmas cards, circa 1990s.

This series is organized into seven subseries. The Taller subseries contains the photographs of Taller activities form the 1970s to the present. The gallery exhibits subseries contains images for some of the photograph exhibitions presented at the Taller gallery. The other subseries are: proofs, negatives, Los Barrios oral history project negatives, Jack Delano collection, and unidentified photographs. There are some images of Puerto Rico in the collection.

The Jack Delano subseries contains 37 photographs from Jack Delano. Jack Delano (1914-1997) was a photographer and composer active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington D.C.; and Puerto Rico. After graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied illustration and composition and became interested in photography, he worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from the early 1930s until 1943, when the FSA was eliminated. In 1941, he visited Puerto Rico for his work with the FSA and was profoundly affected by his time there. He moved to Puerto Rico permanently in 1946, after serving three years in the US Army Air Forces. While in Puerto Rico he continued to take photographs, but also worked in the Community Division of the Department of Public Education, where he produced films, and often composed the films' scores. Delano also directed Los Peloteros, a Puerto Rican film about poor rural kids and their love for baseball, considered a classic in Puerto Rican cinema. He is known for incorporating Puerto Rican folk music into his film compositions.

This series contains VHS recordings of local community and Taller's activities in the Philadelphia region. The series also includes cultural, literary, and educational films, and roll films. The materials in this series are organized into numerical order and roll films. There are over 250 videos and 2 roll films that are available to the public for a rental period, similar to a public library's movie collection. Several VHS cassettes are of major motion pictures.

A large portion of this series is 153 audiocassette recordings from the oral history project Batiendo La Olla and 53 audiocassette recordings from the Los Barrios oral history project. The rest of the series includes recordings from a variety of music programs and conferences that took place at Taller. This series also includes a collection of long play records from the 1970s and 1980s. This series is organized into five subseries: Batiendo la Olla, Los Barrios, miscellaneous tapes, promotional reels, and long play records.

This series includes Taller's slide collection since the early years of its presence in the Philadelphia Latino community. This collection is organized in the following subseries: art, immigration, Taller (includes activities), Puerto Rico, Los Barrios oral project, and unidentified and mixed. Some of the Puerto Rico slides are from the 1940s.

This series contains different art projects or materials related to art projects sponsored by Taller. It is divided into four subseries: Taller's 20th anniversary/community photos, mobile collections, documentation of art created at Taller, and Jack Delano's mobile collection.

Taller's 20th anniversary/community photos contains 82 photographs from the anniversary event and the community.

The mobile collections contain objects and materials from Taller that are available to travel. Objects include 18 AIDS quilts. These quilts were not included in the linear foot measurement for this finding aid. Other materials include a comic collection and photos of the community and Taller's history.

It is unknown what materials are in the Jack Delano mobile collection.

The documentation of art created at Taller contains materials relating artists and exhibits at Taller, publications relating to art at Taller, and examples of work created there.