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

Farm laborer working in a sugar field near Guanica, Puerto Rico in January 1942.

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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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Puerto Rican Mailman Delivering Mail by Horseback, 1880

Puerto Rican mail carrier on horseback waits to pick up mail at a post office.

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Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Sugar workers at a strike meeting

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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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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.

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