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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A sugar workers lunch consisted of rice, beans and papaya

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

Children near their home in the slum area known as “El Fangitto”

Houses in the slum area known as “El Fangitto” (The Mud) in San Juan, P.R.

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.

33 historic photographs of San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1940’s

33 photographs of life in San Juan, Puerto Rico from the 1940’s

19 Pictures of San Juan’s Mud Slum, “El Fanguito”

Welcome to San Juan in the 1940’s! In the forefront you see beautiful trees, nice cars, paved…