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Description

Rear-view of a house in the town of Hatillo. The house is built on stilts, in wood over concrete, and has a zinc roof. It has railing-less concrete steps that lead to a simple, wooden door. Also, there are aluminum, lattice-style windows. In the surrounding area, you can see a metallic hand ladder and a clothesline.
Origin Name
CAJ_1019_N0033
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
  • Swinging doors (doors)
  • Stairs (series of steps)
  • Ladders
  • Stilts (structural elements)
Decolonial Subject
Rights
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Editor
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format
JPEG
Resource Type
Image
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