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

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

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Puerto Rican Women Panning for Gold in a Stream, 1890

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Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Sugar workers at a strike meeting

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

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A woman makes dresses in a needlework factory in San Juan

This picture shows a woman working in a needlework factory near San Juan, PR.

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Burning a sugar cane field in Guanica, Puerto Rico. 1942

This is a process that destroys the leaves and makes sugar cane easier to harvest.

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In the Everglades needlework factory. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Seamstress working in the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan.

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