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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19 Pictures of San Juan’s Mud Slum, “El Fanguito”

Welcome to San Juan in the 1940’s! In the forefront you see beautiful trees, nice cars, paved…

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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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A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation. Manati, P.R.

A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico.

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Beautiful Pictures of Bayamon, P.R.

In December 1941, photographer Jack Delano visited Bayamon and took these pictures

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San Juan, Puerto Rico. In the huge slum known as “El Fangitto”

A woman stands with her child and dog on one of the boardwalks of “El Fangitto”.

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A family in the doorway of their home in Santurce, Puerto Rico

A family in the house they will soon be forced to abandon in Santurce, PR.

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