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Description

Side-view of a one-story house with a zinc, gabled roof located in the town of Hatillo. The house is surrounded by a porch, it has a low concrete wall sustained by columns. The porch, where there are several persons standing, is decorated with chairs, armchairs and plants in decorative pots. In the front, there is a simple, wooden door and several lattice-style windows surrounded by wooden moldings, same as on the sides. Also, there is an entrance that connects the sidewalk with the concrete house on stilts. In the upper part, in the front, there is a lattice-style window in wood. In front of the house, besides the entrance, there is a wooden table and several persons standing.
Origin Name
CAJ_1019_N0027
Relation
Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Carol F. Jopling > Caja 2 - Pruebas de contacto y negativos
Geographical Coverage
Hatillo
Date
1979
Descriptive Notes
The title, date, and address were provided by the Architecture and Construction Archive of the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR). In the file provided by the archive, the following information is clarified: "Photographer: Carol F. Jopling, architecture students, or Earth Watch volunteers". Some of the photos found in the archives of this collection are repeated and show the same houses because they document other formats created for the research project led by Carol F. Jopling and were taken on different occasions (example: 35mm negatives, color, black and white, instant photos, photos that were brightened or with contrast).
Historical Background
Architectural Subject
  • Houses
  • Plank construction
  • Zinc
  • Walls
  • Tables (support furniture)
  • Chairs (furniture forms)
  • Flowerpots
  • Sidewalks
  • Gables (architectural elements)
  • Swingings doors (doors)
  • Molding (object components)
  • Automobiles
  • Porticoes
  • People (agents)
Decolonial Subject
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Editor
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format
JPEG
Resource Type
Image
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