Man Giving Something to Girl in Front of Home While Mother and Siblings Look On - PRAHA

Man Giving Something to Girl in Front of Home While Mother and Siblings Look On

Description

Man hands an object to a girl in front of a house in which there is a woman, a girl and a boy in the frame of the door. The house is made of wood, founded on piles and has stick stairs in one of the main doors. The walls are covered with wood and the roof has a slope. Around the house, there are domestic animales such as a hen and a dog.
Origin Name
10,142--Man giving something to girl in front of home while
Relation
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín > Colección Menonitas > Clayton Gingerich
Geographical Coverage
Municipio desconocido | Unknown Municipality
Date
[194-?]
Descripción decolonial
Mennonite missionaries and civilian volunteers engage in community action in rural Puerto Rico in the 1940s. The photo captures a man handing a bright red object to a girl in front of a modest wooden house. The details are unclear, but the item appears to bring joy to the child and her onlooking family. The family’s dilapidated home, founded on wood poles with stick stairs, embodies a widespread struggle for housing rights at this moment in Puerto Rican history. Amid Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration's (PRRA) initiatives, Mennonite volunteers would offer community support for precarious populations, as they attempted to engage a holistic, albeit top-down, effort to improve living conditions during the 1940s.
Historical Background
Architectural Subject
  • Houses
  • People (agents)
  • Children (people by age group)
  • Girls
  • Doors
  • Pile foundations
Decolonial Subject
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Editor
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format
JPEG
Resource Type
Image
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