Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo 1920s, Cuba – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo 1920s, Cuba, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo Bay from radio tower, U.S.N. [...]
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Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo 1920s, Cuba
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Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba's southeastern coast, was by 1915 shaped largely by the United States Navy. Under the 1903 agreement between Washington and Havana, the United States held a lease on part of the bay for a coaling and naval station, and the Atlantic Fleet used its sheltered waters for drills and gunnery practice in the Caribbean. The surrounding countryside was given over mostly to sugar cane, and the wartime demand for sugar after Europe went to war in 1914 was lifting prices and bringing money into the mill districts of the interior. Cubans in the nearby city of Guantanamo and officials in Havana knew the bay as an American installation on Cuban soil, a arrangement that brought constant friction over sovereignty. For the local people, ships riding at anchor in the harbor were a familiar sight.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Cuba |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 723 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo Bay from radio tower, U.S.N. [...] |
| Reference | CUBA Atlantic fleet, Guantanamo 1920s |
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