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!

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.

33 historic photographs of San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1940’s

33 photographs of life in San Juan, Puerto Rico from the 1940’s

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.

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

A disabled man walking around El Fangitto, “The Mud”, on crutches.

Boys eating sugarcane in a small fishing village of Puerto Real

Boys eating sugarcane in the small fishing village of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico.

A street in the slum area of the hill town of Lares, Puerto Rico

A street scene in the slum area of the hill town of Lares, Puerto Rico. January, 1942.