Weather Squadron Office
Description
Office of the second weather squadron of the United States Army Military Base known as Borinquen Field in Aguadilla. A wooden house with a hip roof and built on stilts. The entrance has steps leading to the porch with a concrete balustrade. In the front, there are two double doors, and on the side wall, there are double casement windows. There is an antenna on the roof.| Origin Name |
CJHO0060(a)
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| Relation |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín > Sección X, Serie 3, Colección José H. Orraca
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| Geographical Coverage |
Aguadilla
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| Date |
1940-04-23
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloging equipment.
The front of the image has a printed inscription.
Back. Stamp: "Official Photograph U.S. Army Corps."
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| Descripción decolonial |
The second weather squadron at Borinquen Field in Aguadilla offers an historical anchor for critique of the impacts of US imperialism, disaster capitalism, and military control on Puerto Rico. The image captures the institutionalized presence of the United States military, a symbol of imperial dominance since 1898. The image also hints at the United States strategic investment in disaster readiness as a form of colonial maintenance. It was the same year that the US took possession of Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898 that President William McKinley ordered the US Weather Bureau to establish a hurricane warning network in the region. A year later, Hurricane San Ciriaco devastated Puerto Rico, prompting a major infrastructural overhaul by the US imperial government. Decades later, the hurricanes of San Felipe II in 1928 and San Ciprian in 1932, coupled with New Deal interventions, would again transform Puerto Rico’s built environment, allowing the United States to cement power through architectural and infrastructural investment. The second weather bureau becomes an icon of both power and resilience within the complex natural and cultural dialectic of Puerto Rico and the US empire.
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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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