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Havana; Cuba; Caribbean ; Tourism and LeisureBiblio.com

Pre-Cuban Revolution Havana Cuba Photo Archive 1920s-40s

1920ref. 224751920. Cuba Havana landmarks and urban development real photo post card archive ca. 1920s-1940s. 11 color and sepia real photo postcards of iconic civic and cultural architecture in Havana Cuba. Each measure 4" x 6". Many with captions identifying the locations in the negative or en verso with some printed in English and others in Spanish signaling their intended audience of both locals and foreign tourists. A compelling photo archive documenting early 20th-century Havana's architectural and political aspirations this collection showcases prominent landmarks that symbolized Cuba's nationalist identity international cosmopolitanism and American-influenced modernization in the decades between independence from Spain and the Cuban Revolution. The archive includes silver gelatin and printed color views of the National Theatre Cuba's Capitol Building Central Railway Station Gran Casino Nacional National University and the grand gateway of Havana's Colón Cemetery. Other views depict Paseo de Martí one of Havana's most iconic boulevards lined with vintage American cars and flanked by ornate colonial facades and new Art Deco-style hotels evidence of the influx of U.S. capital and tourism during the Batista era. Havana in this period was rapidly transforming into a showcase city of the Caribbean its urban core reflecting both Spanish colonial heritage and American urban planning models. The presence of monumental buildings like El Capitolio constructed between 1926 and 1929 and modeled after the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. points to Cuba's alignment with American political aesthetics and aspirations toward modern statehood. Similarly the University and Gran Casino Nacional represent both the intellectual elite and leisure-class investment that typified pre-revolutionary Cuban society. The mixture of European and U.S. architectural influences ranging from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco speaks to the layered colonial legacy and new economic dependency forged during the Platt Amendment era. Some mild edge wear. One card with a small corner crease others clean. Overall very good condition. This archive captures Havana in the midst of dramatic urban renewal and internationalization before the massive ruptures brought on by the 1959 revolution. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · United States$385.00≈ €343.97

Havana; Cuba; Caribbean ; Tourism and LeisureABAA

Pre-Cuban Revolution Havana Cuba Photo Archive 1920s-40s

Max Rambod Inc. · United States$385.00≈ €343.97

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U.S. Colonial Puerto Rico and San Juan Hurricane Destruction in Early Twentieth-Century Photographs

1928ref. 219181928. Puerto Rico photo archive circa 1910s and 1928 documents colonial-era social conditions and hurricane destruction in the decades after the United States took control of the island. The archive centers on two related subjects: a large group portrait of Puerto Rican adults and children gathered outside a long arched building and press images of San Juan after the September 13 1928 San Felipe Segundo hurricane. The photographs provide visual evidence of everyday poverty built environment disaster damage and public movement through wreckage during a period shaped by U.S. civil government under the Foraker Act of 1900 and U.S. citizenship without voting representation in Congress under the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917. Puerto Rico photo archive. Puerto Rico circa late 1910s and 1928. Three silver gelatin photographs with two images printed on one press sheet. Sizes range from 5 x 9 inches to 8.5 x 11 inches. The 1928 press photograph contains two stacked photojournalistic views of San Juan after the hurricane showing torn corrugated roofing broken utility poles damaged structures debris-filled streets and residents including children and laborers moving through the wreckage. The larger earlier image shows a white man standing before a long arched tenement-style or institutional building surrounded by Puerto Rican women men and numerous children many barefoot and wearing worn or minimal clothing; the image appears posed or observational but the man's role is not identified. The San Felipe Segundo hurricane struck Puerto Rico on September 13 1928 as a Category 5 storm and caused 312 reported deaths widespread housing destruction and several hundred thousand people left homeless giving the press images strong value as disaster documentation within a colonial setting. The earlier group photograph broadens the archive beyond catastrophe recording visible poverty dress housing and racialized colonial social relations without requiring unsupported identification of the white figure. Some edge wear tape on margins of smaller image and original editor's markings en verso to press photograph; very good. A compact Puerto Rico photo archive linking colonial-era social conditions with one of the island's most destructive twentieth-century hurricanes. unknown