Figure 1.--This is another Pureto Rican farm famiolyn in the 1950s. Unlike the previois family, here rather than thir home, we see their land. uch if the island is rolling hills like this. We see a family of six children. Due to their age range we can think that several others are likely to come. It is not clear the occasion of this photo and who is the American woman with them. A Protestant missionary is one possibilityy. They wear casual garments, but perhaps these are their best outfits.

This is another Pureto Rican farm famiolyn in the 1950s. Unlike the previois family, here rather than thir home, we see their land. uch if the island is rolling hills like this. We see a family of six children. Due to their age range we can think that several others are likely to come. It is not clear the occasion of this photo and who is the American woman with them. A Protestant missionary is one possibilityy. They wear casual garments, but perhaps these are their best outfits. Possibly some garment was put on purposely for the photo -- they look too clean to have been worn by the children in everyday life. Both photographs seem very serious. We are not sure who is taking the photographs. Dad seems more interested in the photograph than mopyher. The younger children seem to be not quite sure of what is happening. Puerto Rico by this time had bee part of the United States for half a century. The economic condition seems more like Latin America than the United States. This is not to say thst conditiions had no improved, they had. uy wee would have expected more. Notabvky, tyhey were small propriters who owned their land.

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