Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.
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| Puerto Rico from 1944 to 1947 |
Puerto Rico is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles located between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands; it includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques.
The capital and most populous city of Puerto Rico is San Juan. Spanish and English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates.
These amazing color photos from Tom Lehman were taken by Dr. H. Clair Amstutz that documented everyday life of Puerto Rico from 1944 to 1947.
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| Aibonito. Ambulance by Don Emanuelli's house |
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| Aibonito. Children on rural road |
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| Aibonito. Four horses carrying bundles of tobacco |
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| Aibonito. Man with ox team |
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| Aibonito. Ox cart backed up to tobacco warehouse |
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| Asomante. Hauling cane |
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| Boy on mule with baskets, coconut grove, near Luquillo Beach |
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| Bus stop, people waiting on Caguas road |
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| Caguas street |
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| Cane harvest, 6 ox team pulling carts on field |
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| Cane mill, horse harnessed to winch, driver resting, the Piñones- Vaciatalega area, not far from San Juan |
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| Castaner. Drying coffee |
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| Castaner. Processional |
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| Cataño. El fanguito |
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| Cayey. Good Friday girls |
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| Cayey. Good Friday procession seen from above |
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| Cayey. Good Friday |
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| Cayey. Medical staff and others at Toita |
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| Cuchilla. Dona Matilda's house |
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| Drying coffee, pile of coffee on large concrete pad, two men with large wooden tray with handles |
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| Drying tobacco |
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| Funeral |
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| Hauling coconuts in ox-drawn cart |
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| Hauling stones in ox carts |
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| Horses with banana bunches on Pulguillas road |
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| House in Salto |
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| House with child looking out door |
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| La Perla |
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| La Plata medical center |
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| La Plata. Boy between flamboyant trees |
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| La Plata. Girl in dress of vow to St Anthony |
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| La Plata. Hoeing tobacco |
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| La Plata. Horses hauling bags of fertilizer |
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| La Plata. Hospital door, crowd gathered around entrance to La Plata hospital |
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| La Plata. Morning fog in La Plata valley |
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| Man carrying palm branches |
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| Men carrying bundles of tobacco into barn |
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| Milk station, woman fill glasses on table for children, lined up |
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| Moving day, boy and donkey with load in tobacco field |
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| Ox cart hauling bundles of tobacco leaves |
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| Oxen hauling tobacco |
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| Plowing with two team of oxen |
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| Ponce wagon |
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| Ponce. Horse taxis, fire station |
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| Ponce. Teatro La Perla on the right |
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| Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA) house |
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| Rio Piedras. University of Puerto Rico |
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| Roadside store and ox cart |
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| San Juan. Cathedral facade |
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| San Juan. La Fortaleza |
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| San Juan. Robinson School, Santurce |
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| School at Pulguillas |
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| School children with sisal leaves |
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| School lunch room at Pulguillas |
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| Sheep in Aibonito |
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| Sugarcane planters, oxen and steam tractor in distance |
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| Threshing tobacco seed |
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| Toa Alta. Toita Valley from cliff road, tobacco barns |
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| Tobacco field and barn |
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| Tobacco nursery |
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| Two men arranging vanilla beans on screened trays for drying |
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| View of La Plata |
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| Woman with hoe |
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| Yauco. Plants on wire |
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| Young couple under tree with Barranquitas, church in background |
Beautiful. Reminds me of my time.
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