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Puerto Rico Mio:
Four
Decades of Change
by Jack Delano
(Photographer)
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The pages of this pictorial opus expresses the legacy, struggle, beauty, misery, joy
of Puerto Rico of days past. Second, third generation Puerto Ricans will reconnect
with their roots page by page. This is surely an enlighting photo memoir of our
People, the images speak louder then words. The power of photograph comes to light in
these pages, and Delano did it so well. Delano saves the spirit of Puerto Rico's past,
once thought to be lost with faded memories. This is a book to keep for oneself, it
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San Juan
City Hall and Plaza 1941 |
 fter
the Great Depresion of 1929, being a territory of the USA for for
over 30 years, Puerto Rico suffered as much, if not more that other
states in the mainland. The local economy depended on American
stability.
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 ere, Boricuas are transitioning from a basically agricultural
economy to and industrial one; one that will eventually will support
the parcial autonomy obtained in later years. The ubiquitous 5&10
store on the right will mold a pattern to be emulated by small merchants in almost all towns over the Island.
A Typical Family Home in 1940s |
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crash of the U.S. stock market on October 29, 1929,—known as "Black
Tuesday"—triggered a worldwide financial crisis that impacted Puerto
Rico as well. In the following years, unemployment in Puerto Rico
sore to catasthropic proportions, while manufacturing output
collapsed considerably worse.
By the 1940s Boricuas were seeing the effects of Roosevelt's New
Deal and being able to afford better housing. This one, altough
still very humble in structure, was typical of a common factory
worker who earned about $7.00 per day. Notice the big oval family
portraits on the walls, home-made electrical wiring, big radio and
the ubiquitous Lord Jesus on the back wall.
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Puerto Rico Mio:
Four
Decades of Change
by Jack Delano
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