Boys filling buckets of water at Columbus fountain in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Columbus fountain was the place where the great discoverer, Christopher Columbus, first quenched his thirst after arriving in Puerto Rico.




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Fisherman selling his catch in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 1900

This picture shows a Puerto Rican fisherman carrying long strings of fish.

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A sugar workers lunch consisted of rice, beans and papaya

In Guanica, Puerto Rico this was the standard lunch of a plantation worker.

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Children in Utuado, Puerto Rico, 1942

Utuado, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area. January, 1942 by Jack Delano.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico. In the huge slum known as “El Fangitto”

A woman stands with her child and dog on one of the boardwalks of “El Fangitto”.

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Children in the slum area of San Juan, known as El Fangitto

San Juan, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area known as El Fangitto.

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A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation. Manati, P.R.

A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico.

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