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1939

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Street in San Juan, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Farm Security Administration borrowers harvesting sugar cane cooperatively on a farm, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
FSA borrower and participant in the sugar cane cooperative, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Farm Security Administration farmers working in a sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. This is part of an FSA cooperative (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Children of FSA-RR borrower? on their farm, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Man in a sugar cane field during harvest, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008

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Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

3 older comments, and then…
Alec Fredericks said:
I've become addicted to trying to bring back the original vibrancy of these images. My first test is here: www.flickr.com/photos/alec_fredericks/2198620547/ By adjusting the color balance, contrast and levels, I think I've found a way to bring back the natural colors and facial details ravaged by time.
RicanGeek said:
Her blouse was made from the same fabric used to package the processed sugar.
bf53490 said:
These people don't look happy at all compared to some of the photos of the white American field workers.
wesvaz said:
bf5390: they had to work really hard to eat very little and live a hopeless life of work and no progress-staying servants to rich thieves. Now Would you look happy? like the field workers from usa-i think is what you mean when you say "american" ...
tropicalgardener1 said:
I am thinking the white field workers I have seen don't look so happy either... unless they were posed. Working for the rich (with no vested rights in property) is humiliating and dehumanizing.

Son of one of the FSA farmers on the Rio Piedras project who brought lunch to his father, working in the sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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Isa said:
this is so perfect in style, in composition, and in history. thank you for posting this series!!!
royal thumb said:
When I saw your pictures (this one plus the others), it brought tears to my eyes. My grandfather pass away 25 years ago, and he was a cane sugar worker in Las Piedras area. I never got to see pictures of him at work, and if it was not for you I would probably never knew. Thanks soooo much for posting this pictures it meant a lot to me !!!
davidsancar said:
beautiful shot, Jack Delano's craft.
Galería de Nydia Arroyo said:
Esta es la famosa "fiambrera", donde cada trabajador llevaba su comida.
David O'Neill said:
Don O'Neill- Great!!! My father would travel for miles to deliver his fathers lunch to him in exactly the same way using these containers. It was in the 1930's as well. A quite man who spoke very little so my grandmother developed a routine to figure out where he was working each day before sending my father on this errand by checking the shed to see which tools he had taken with him that day. My grandfather was a laborer or "Journalero" in the fincas de tobacco y fruta etc. He worked and lived in the Rio Piedras area and lived in the Guaynabo Barrios of Rio, Hato Nuevo, and Capetillio over the years.

Man in a sugar cane field during harvest, Puerto Rico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

davidsancar said:
A master or patron of the land? - highly probable, his body language, evokes an educated person into a degree.
Mike M. said:
What a great environmental portrait! I love the tight compositon that still allows enough background for a sense of place, the color and light, the way the man's face is shadowed, and the wonderfully attitudinal pose. Great work: Art. Fave. Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Art is Art, and we'd love to have this added to the group!