Collection Highlights

Institutional Collections- includes Hostos Senate Minutes, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Reports, Yearly Reports, College Course Catalogs, and Year Books

Hostos Arts & Culture Collection –donated by Director Wallace I. Edgecombe, contains posters and promotional postcards from events at Hostos

Faculty Papers

Gerald J. Meyer Collection -extensive records of college activities dating back to 1972. The highlights of this collection are papers and photographs from the “Struggle to Save Hostos” that took place during the 1970’s Magda Vasillov Collection– 50 matted gelatin silver prints entitled Faces of Hostos. The subjects of these photographs are College students and staff taken my Professor Vasillov during the 1970s

Digital Collection

Hostos possesses the largest collection of works by and about Eugenio María de Hostos in the Unites States. The library has created a digital archival collection from original source material gathered from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba.

MoCHA Collection

The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) was born from the rise of multiculturalism in 1985, as an alternative museum in SoHo that showcased the art of Latin American and Latino artists under-represented in mainstream institutions. MoCHA operated under the umbrella of Friends of Puerto Rico, Inc. (FOPR), a non-profit organization founded and incorporated in 1956.  From 1974 to 1984, FOPR administered the Cayman Gallery, which in its lifetime was the only non-commercial Hispanic arts center in the mainstream of American Art.  Despite its short existence, MoCHA helped launch the career of numerous artists who became successful in the nineties. After it closed in 1990, its archival records were taken to Hostos Community College, City University of New York, in an effort to preserve them. These invaluable records document the history of the institution and the early careers of many of the artists it exhibited. Primary sources include exhibition and artist files, recorded symposia of public programs organized by the museum, and exhibition catalogs published. Although accessible, these records remain unprocessed.

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