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

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

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