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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Women sewing gloves in the fishing village of Puerto Real

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Burning a sugar cane field in Guanica, Puerto Rico. 1942

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Woman working on a pineapple plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rican Mailman Delivering Mail by Horseback, 1880

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Girl stringing tobacco in a tobacco barn. Barranquitas, P.R.

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