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Topic 1: Jack (and/or Irene) Delano: American expatriate who relocated to Puerto Rico with his wife Irene in 1946. Wikipedia article about Delano lists him only as an FSA photographer and composer. The article also has thin/poor citations. He was also a film and television director and producer, writer, graphic artist, and Puerto Rican literacy advocate. Instrumental in cultural affairs in the government of Luis Muñoz Marín. I believe he was a major cultural player in the “reconstruction” of Puerto Rico from the New Deal through the Operation Bootstrap era and his life and contributions are being underrepresented or incompletely represented. His wife Irene is usually mentioned as an afterthought in articles about him and she has no Wikipedia page at all. She was also a talented artist, his primary photo editor, and also involved in Puerto Rican cultural matters in an official capacity. Secondary sources may be a problem with this topic.

Topic 2: New Deal policies in Puerto Rico: Specifically, the Puerto Rico Emergency Relief Administration of 1933 (PRERA) and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration of 1935 (PRRA). These could either be tackled as separate articles or done together. As it stands right now, the PRRA is the only one of the two topics that has a page on Wikipedia and the page has multiple citation and verification issues. The PRERA has no page on Wikipedia and a basic Google search directs the searcher to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) page on Wikipedia. The FERA Wikipedia page makes no mention of any “offshore” New Deal relief policies such as the PRERA or the PRRA. I feel that it is important to note how our continental policies during the Great Depression were implemented in this U.S. Caribbean territory. The History of Puerto Rico page barely makes any mention of these policies and is also thin on good citations. Numerous links between various articles can be made.