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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El Morro’s Castle wall after being struck by a 13-inch shell in 1899

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Puerto Rican Mailman Delivering Mail by Horseback, 1880

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A disabled man walks around the huge slum known as “El Fangitto”

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

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

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