Pretty Faces

A moment in a Puerto Rican slum, 1942. One wonders how these children's future unfolded. Did they grow into adulthood - or were their lives cut short by misfortune? Today, they'd be in their 70s.

Photo by Jack Delano. [American Memory link]

Pineapple Express

Taken on a pineapple plantation in 1942 Puerto Rico.

Photo by Jack Delano. [American Memory link]

Water

Workers on a Puerto Rican sugar plantation. I love everything about this shot: the dark sky, the desolate field, the curve of the water barrel.

Photo by Edwin Rosskam, 1938. [American Memory link]