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.




More Pictures of Puerto Rico!

Beautiful Pictures of Bayamon, P.R.

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

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Sugar workers at a strike meeting

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. At a strike meeting. January 1942.

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.

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

Woman in front of her home in Santurce that she was being forced to abandon.

An apothecary store in Lares, Puerto Rico. January, 1942

A pharmacists awaits customers in an apothecary store in Lares, Puerto Rico.

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

An orchestra, or band playing in the “Escambron,” a nightclub in San Juan.