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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Street vendor selling pork on a street in Santurce, Puerto Rico

Street vendor selling pork products on a street in Santurce, Puerto Rico. 1942.

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Three native Puerto Rican women in front of their hut houses

The original title of this photograph was “Dusky Belles in Porto Rico.”

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Beautifully restored map of Puerto Rico from 1886

Mapa Topografico De La Isla De Puerto Rico

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Farm laborer working in a sugar field near Guanica, Puerto Rico

Farm laborer working in a sugar field near Guanica, Puerto Rico in January 1942.

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The first Puerto Rican troops to join the American Army in 1899

The first company of native Puerto Ricans enlisted in the American Colonial Army.

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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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