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El Prado, Havana – Historic Print

El Prado, Havana — historic photograph
El Prado, Havana. Historic photograph from the Latin America collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of El Prado, Havana. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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El Prado, Havana

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El Prado is the tree-lined boulevard that runs through Havana from the Parque Central toward the Malecón, and this view captures its shaded promenade as it looked in the early 1900s. Shortly after the Spanish–American War, the United States occupied Cuba and then oversaw its transition to independence in 1902, so the city was filled with new commercial and civic life. The Prado was among Havana's most fashionable public spaces, with marble benches, ornamental lamps, and rows of trees where residents strolled in the evenings. Photographs like this one, from the Library of Congress collection, document how the city's public life was taking shape at the start of the republic.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1903.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126143

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