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!

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”.

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Sugar workers at a strike meeting

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

Children sitting on the boardwalks of “El Fangitto”

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

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

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

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

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

In the Everglades needlework factory. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Seamstress working in the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan.