Cockfight

Box 427, Folder 1, Photo 4832

San Juan National Historic Site (NPS) > San Juan NHS Resource Records Collection > Series VIII Visual Materiales 1788-2017, Subseries B Photographs 1890 - 2011 > Box 427 - Folder 1 - 18098 Collection (21) - 1899

Yauco

1899

Title assigned by the cataloging team. The image has an inscription reading: "Strohmeyer & Wyman New York, NY Sold only by Underwood & Underwood New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas" and another one that reads, "Cock-fight - a favorite holiday sport at Yauco Porto Rico. Copyright 1899 Stromeyer & Wyman." The general description, date, or geographical coverage has information furnished by the San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico.

Traditional cockfights date back to beginning of the Spanish colonization of Puerto Rico. Despite being regulated, it is not until the United States invasion of 1898 that these gatherings were prohibited in the island, as well as series of measures imposed to eradicate from Puerto Rican culture those elements which could tie it to its Spanish colonial past. This action, along with the conflicts raised by the implantation of a military government and other preexisting social discomforts, aroused the repudiation of several sectors of the population against this affront to Puerto Rican identity and coexistence. As a means of resistance, those sectors in discontent rooted to the very elements intended to be supplanted, in defiance to the colonial order and cultural reaffirmation. For example, clandestine cockfights were still organized throughout the island during the first decades of the twentieth century.

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