Wedtech Corp. float at the 1985 Puerto Rican Day Parade
- Title:
- Wedtech Corp. float at the 1985 Puerto Rican Day Parade
- Collection:
- Joe Conzo Jr. Archive
- Photographer:
- Conzo, Joe, Jr. (American hip hop photographer)
- Date:
- 1985-06-09
- Location:
- 5th Ave. between 42nd and 86th St., New York NY 10017
Manhattan, New York, New York, United States - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- JC_02420
- Collection Number:
- 8091
- File Name:
- RMM08091_02420.jpg
- Occasion:
- Puerto Rican Day Parade
- Work Type:
- black-and-white negatives
- Subject:
- Parades
Puerto Ricans--New York (State)--New York
Street photography
Wedtech (Firm) - Description:
- The Wedtech Corp. float at the 1985 Puerto Rican Day Parade.
- Notes:
- Wedtech, a defense contractor, became mired in a scandal in 1985-86 because it had received contracts as a minority-owned business but was not, in fact, a minority-owned business.
- Cite As:
- Joe Conzo, Jr. photographs and ephemera, #8091. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Related Work:
- 10118467
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell University Hip Hop Collection
- Archival Collection:
- Joe Conzo, Jr. photographs and ephemera
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This item is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is Cornell University. Items in the Archive of Joe Conzo, Jr. were digitized by Cornell University Library and Boo-Hooray Gallery from 2012-2014 from an assemblage of photographic print and negatives contained in The Joe Conzo Photographic Collection held in the Cornell Hip Hop Collection, part of Cornell's Rare and Manuscript Collections. The low-resolution copies found on this site may be used for non-profit, educational purposes. For other distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions, the written permission of the copyright and other rights holders is required. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for questions about this item or other items in the Archive of Joe Conzo, Jr., including licensing items from the collection, using the images on advertising-supported web sites, for permissions requests, and for high-resolution copies of the images.