Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age now joins it, while also expanding the continuing commitment of the Library of Congress to highlight the histories of distinctive American regions through the online presentation of materials selected from a number of divisions. Texts from the postwar period include the only English-language works in the collection. Among these are soldiers' reminiscences about the conflict and short histories designed to acquaint an American audience with Puerto Rico in the earliest years of its affiliation with the United States. The collection comprises 16 monographs scanned from printed copies and 39 political pamphlets and 2 monographs and a journal scanned from microfilm. The pamphlets are part of the Puerto Rican Memorial Microfilm Collection, 1846-1907, a collection of 447 pamphlets microfilmed in 1994 that covers agriculture and botany, economics, education, government, politics, history, literature, legal materials, and public health.
All pamphlets are in Spanish.
Four of the books are in English and the rest in Spanish. Each item was reproduced as facsimile page images. The image capture took place at the Library of Congress. In order to preserve the originals, bound works were scanned face-up in their bindings, one page at a time. Books containing bitonal text pages and no illustrations were scanned using the Minolta PS3000.