Going to Puerto Rico for the First Time

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a young boy sitting on luggage, on his way to Puerto Rico for his first time. The background is a blur of people. The young boy wears a horizontal and vertical stripped, short sleeved shirt with a collar and breast pocket. He wears shorts to his knees with long, black socks. It appears he has something on his proper left wrist, presumably a rubber band. There are no inscriptions on the front of the print. The back is inscribed with the photographer’s signature and alpha-numerical inscriptions from the photographer.

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