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[Homes in Havana, Cuba] – Historic Reproduction

[Homes in Havana, Cuba], [1917] — historic photograph
[Homes in Havana, Cuba], [1917]. 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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[Homes in Havana, Cuba] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Havana's residential streets in 1917 were a mix of colonial-era townhouses and newer buildings, and this print turns the camera on the homes themselves rather than the people in front of them. Its title, "Homes in Havana, Cuba," is broad, so the picture reads as a study of the city's domestic architecture: the facades, doorways, and street-level details that defined neighborhoods where families lived and worked. Photographs like this one were often made to document a place's built environment, and they remain useful to historians tracing how Havana's housing looked in the years before the 1920s building boom.

Created / published[1917]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
SubjectsDwellings--Cuba--Havana--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,117 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167582

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