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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An Upper Class Home in the Suburbs of Puerto Rico, 1890

An upper class Puerto Rican home with palm trees in the front yard.

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Beautiful Pictures of Bayamon, P.R.

In December 1941, photographer Jack Delano visited Bayamon and took these pictures

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A boy stands in a hurricane shelter in Utuado, Puerto Rico

Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Hurricane shelter near the house of a farm laborer.

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In the Everglades needlework factory. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Seamstress working in the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan.

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The first Puerto Rican troops to join the American Army in 1899

The first company of native Puerto Ricans enlisted in the American Colonial Army.

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Band playing in the “Escambron,” a San Juan nightclub

An orchestra, or band playing in the “Escambron,” a nightclub in San Juan.

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