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!

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.

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.

A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation. Manati, P.R.

A “majordomo” (foreman) on a sugar plantation in Manati, Puerto Rico.

Beautiful Pictures of Bayamon, P.R.

In December 1941, photographer Jack Delano visited Bayamon and took these pictures

Three native Puerto Rican women in front of their hut houses

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

A disabled man walks around the huge slum known as “El Fangitto”

A disabled man walking around El Fangitto, “The Mud”, on crutches.