Museo Poey, Universidad de la Habana – Historic Print
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(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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Step back in time with Museo Poey, Universidad de la Habana, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Museo Poey, Universidad de la Habana
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The Museo Poey takes its name from Felipe Poey, the nineteenth-century naturalist known for his studies of Cuban fish and other island wildlife. This photograph, dated somewhere between 1935 and 1947, shows the museum at the University of Havana during a period when the city was a busy center of Cuban public life. Poey's specimens and writings helped form the scientific collections that visitors encountered on display. The picture offers a useful view of how natural history collections were housed and presented in the mid-twentieth century.
| Created / published | [between 1935 and 1947] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1950. |
| Notes | Archive of Hispanic Culture Collection. |
| Subjects | Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.--Museo Felipe Poey. Galleries & museums--Cuba--Havana--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,224 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168001 |
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