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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A sugar workers lunch consisted of rice, beans and papaya

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Woman in front of her house in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Children sitting on the boardwalks of “El Fangitto”

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

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