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!

An apothecary store in Lares, Puerto Rico. January, 1942

A pharmacists awaits customers in an apothecary store in Lares, Puerto Rico.

Children in the slum area of San Juan, known as El Fangitto

San Juan, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area known as El Fangitto.

A boy stands in a hurricane shelter in Utuado, Puerto Rico

Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Hurricane shelter near the house of a farm laborer.

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

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

Girl stringing tobacco in a tobacco barn. Barranquitas, P.R.

Stringing tobacco in a tobacco barn. Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico.

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.