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!

Children near their home in the slum area known as “El Fangitto”

Houses in the slum area known as “El Fangitto” (The Mud) in San Juan, P.R.

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Sugar workers at a strike meeting

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

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.

In the Everglades needlework factory. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Seamstress working in the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan.

Children in Utuado, Puerto Rico, 1942

Utuado, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area. January, 1942 by Jack Delano.

Children sitting on the boardwalks of “El Fangitto”

Children sitting on one of the boardwalks which are as sidewalks in the slum area.