Beautifully restored map of Puerto Rico from 1886
Mapa Topografico De La Isla De Puerto Rico
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Beautiful Pictures of Bayamon, P.R.
In December 1941, photographer Jack Delano visited Bayamon and took these pictures
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5 Beautiful Old Pictures of Corozal, Puerto Rico
“Corozaleños” will definitely recognize the beautiful hills and scenery in these pictures.
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19 Pictures of San Juan’s Mud Slum, “El Fanguito”
Welcome to San Juan in the 1940’s! In the forefront you see beautiful trees, nice cars, paved…
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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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A disabled man walks around the huge slum known as “El Fangitto”
A disabled man walking around El Fangitto, “The Mud”, on crutches.
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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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An apothecary store in Lares, Puerto Rico. January, 1942
A pharmacists awaits customers in an apothecary store in Lares, Puerto Rico.
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A boy stands in a hurricane shelter in Utuado, Puerto Rico
Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Hurricane shelter near the house of a farm laborer.
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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.
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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.
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Children in Utuado, Puerto Rico, 1942
Utuado, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area. January, 1942 by Jack Delano.
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Woman working on a pineapple plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico
Woman working on a pineapple plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico.
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A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation. Manati, P.R.
A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico.
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Girl stringing tobacco in a tobacco barn. Barranquitas, P.R.
Stringing tobacco in a tobacco barn. Barranquitas (vicinity), 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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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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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.
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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.
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Women sewing gloves in the fishing village of Puerto Real
In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take needlework to do at home.
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Boys eating sugarcane in a small fishing village of Puerto Real
Boys eating sugarcane in the small fishing village of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico.
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Children sitting on the boardwalks of “El Fangitto”
Children sitting on one of the boardwalks which are as sidewalks in the slum area.
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A sugar workers lunch consisted of rice, beans and papaya
In Guanica, Puerto Rico this was the standard lunch of a plantation worker.
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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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