Quinto Centenario Square Under Construction

Description

Quinto Centenario Square located in Old San Juan. A portion of the square can be seen during the construction process. The Totem Telúrico monument can be seen in the center. The work is surrounded by a metal scaffold where several workers can be seen working. The large staircase that leads to the monument and connects the two levels of the square stands out. In the background, the old De La Concepción Hospital, El Grande, can be seen.

Origin Name	Box 448, Folder 1, Photo 5531
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 448 - Folder 1 - Ballajá - 1900-2002
Geographical Coverage	San Juan
Date	1990
Descriptive Notes	Title assigned by the cataloging team. The general description, date, or geographical coverage has information furnished by the San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico.
Colaborador	Suárez Toro, Jaime (1946 - ?) - Escultor
Historical Background	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Old San Juan Restoration Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Old San Juan and it's Periphery: Old San Juan
Architectural Subject	Old towns Squares (open spaces ) Monuments Perrons Railings (balustrades) Building material Scaffolds Historic bulidings Construction workers
Decolonial Subject	Conception of Puerto Rican Identity Decoloniality Coloniality Work (waged)
Rights	The PRAHA does not own the rights to this resource. The user must contact the repository or archive that holds the physical document to determine the restrictions that may apply under the Copyright and Intellectual Property Law or by agreements agreed with donors.
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image