The Criadas Project strives to develop a better understanding of who most scholars would consider as the most vulnerable members of Puerto Rican society in the early 1900s: poor Black girls. While focusing on the “Criada,” we propose a multi-section, interactive website that would allow users to browse material represented from The Picó Papers (the personal research notes of renowned Puerto Rican historian Fernando Picó). The Criadas Project re-configures the information into an alternative archive so that the many Black women and girls are given free-standing real estate that is representative of their individual lives. In making out the archival silhouettes of these minor figures, we hope to rip open the imperial white screen and bring the criadas out of the shadows, kitchens, and laundry rooms and offer them their spotlight. In doing so, we aim to contribute to and expand on the limited scholarship dealing with young Black life in Puerto Rico and across a broader set of Caribbean discourses.