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Cuba, Havana, School of Engineering, University of Havana – Vintage Wall Art

Cuba, Havana, School of Engineering, University of Havana, 1930 Feb. 26. — historic photograph
Cuba, Havana, School of Engineering, University of Havana, 1930 Feb. 26.. 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 Cuba, Havana, School of Engineering, University of Havana. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Cuba, Havana, School of Engineering, University of Havana

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The School of Engineering at the University of Havana is the particular subject here, a campus building photographed in February 1930 and credited to the Secretaría de Obras Públicas, the Cuban government's public works office. The University of Havana, founded in 1728, is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the oldest in the Americas, and by 1930 its colleges had grown well beyond the colonial-era core near Old Havana. The record preserves a documentary view of the institution's physical plant during the presidency of Gerardo Machado, when public works building was a visible sign of state investment in education. Its value lies in showing how a long-established academic institution was housed and presented at that moment.

Created / published1930 Feb. 26.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesSecretaria de Obras Publicas
SubjectsUniversidad de La Habana. Universities & colleges--Cuba--Havana--1930. Educational facilities--Cuba--Havana--1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168025

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