People at a Plantation in Guayama
Description
Children and employees in a plantation in Guayama. A line of girls carrying baskets and metal containers. Behind them, there are five children with farming tools. Various small children can be seen, two of them naked. The corners of a wooden house with a porch and a balustrade, two sheds without walls, and some wheelbarrows.| Origin Name |
Box 427, Folder 2, Photo 4831
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| Relation |
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 2 - 1898 Collection (22) - 1900
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| Geographical Coverage |
Guayama
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| Date |
1900
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloging team.
The image has an inscription reading: "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas. Works and Studios Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Washington, D.C.," and another one reading, "Dinner-time on a Sugar Plantation , Guayama, Porto Rico. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood."
The general description, date, or geographical coverage has information furnished by the San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico.
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| Descripción decolonial |
The United States invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 adds up to the generalized economic crisis felt throughout the island during the second half of the eighteenth century. The disadvantage faced by the creole elite against the foreign capital forced them to sell their farming lands and sugar plantations leaving them as intermediaries between the new administrators of the single crop farming in Puerto Rico and the agricultural workers. The economic situation of the latter was also impacted by the shift of power in the industry, added to the racial discrimination inherited from Spanish colonial period and the slavery system. Furthermore, the implantation of a military government, after the Spanish American War, reduced commerce almost to a halt. During the first decades as a United States colony, production in Puerto Rico focused on products for exportation, while a significant part of food supplies was imported. Much of the population experienced malnutrition and illnesses proliferated, especially among the infant population.
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| Rights |
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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