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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

• 3 older comments, and then…
• 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.