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  • Collection: Postales de Puerto Rico: Colección Osvaldo García

[ Escuela Normal y Escuela Práctica ]

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"The university’s origins date to 1899 when the Island Board of Public Education offered $15,000 a year to any town that would invest a matching amount in creating a normal school. Fajardo accepted the proposal and the Normal Industrial School was…

[ University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras ]

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"The university’s origins date to 1899 when the Island Board of Public Education offered $15,000 a year to any town that would invest a matching amount in creating a normal school. Fajardo accepted the proposal and the Normal Industrial School was…