Workers construct houses and roads in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They build roads while vehicles drive on them. Number of cars parked in parking area. Dam under construction. Aerial view of houses under construction in a row. Street signs read: Calle General Patton; Avenue Las Americas; and Calle Taft. View of the Puerto Rican Capitol building.
Well laid out dining table. A smaller table laid out for four during a Congressional tour of inspection. Secretary of War, John W Weeks and General Wells review Puerto Rican troops of the U.S. Army 65th Infantry Regiment in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Congressmen review a parade as an Army band plays. The Secretary meets 65th Infantry Regiment officers and guests at the Hotel Vanderbilt.
A transport plane lands at the Caribbean airport. A man gives signal. General Eleanor Roosevelt visit America for the first time. Eleanor Roosevelt with General William Shedd. American flag waves in air. She inspects garrisons in Puerto Rico. Mrs MacArthur christens the Australian destroyer Bataan at the Australian shipyard. She wishes the Australian workers.
View of coconut palms in Puerto Rico. Man climbs up a coconut tree and tosses coconuts on the ground. Coconuts ate gathered and loaded onto a cart. Men husk coconut shells using an upright steel blade. Banana trees. Men collect bunch of bananas and load them on donkeys. Sugarcane plantation. Flowers over the crop. Sugarcane crop is harvested. The crops is loaded on bullock carts.
View of Monkey island in Puerto Rico, operated by the School of Tropical Medicine and Columbia University. Group of monkeys eat, play and jump on tree branches. Monkeys take bananas from a basket and eat.
Men, women and children walk on a street in Puerto Rico. They enter a building with PDP (Popular Democratic Party) logo on it. "Pan Tierra Libertad" written under the logo.