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

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Woman working on a pineapple plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico

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Farm laborer working in a sugar field near Guanica, Puerto Rico

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

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