%0 Manuscript %G Spanish %T Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia records 1970-1988 %U https://hsp.org/sites/default/files/mss/Finding%20aid%20MSS114%20Spanish%20Merchants%20Assoc.pdf %X The Spanish Merchants Association was founded in 1970 by Puerto Rican businessmen in Philadelphia to distribute Minority Business Development Agency funds in the Latino community. Initially created to foster the growth of local Latino businesses, the association increasingly focused on housing, food, and other entitlement programs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The organization was dissolved in 1989. The collection includes financial and other administrative records, and records from affiliated and associated organizations. In English and Spanish. Inventory available. The unprocessed additions to the Spanish Merchants Association Records consist of two boxes.