Our happy little admirers at Villa Clara, Cuba – Antique Wall Art
(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 Our happy little admirers at Villa Clara, Cuba, 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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Our happy little admirers at Villa Clara, Cuba
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The title casts the children at Villa Clara, a province in central Cuba, as "happy little admirers," so the card is built around their attention to the photographer and the crowd. It was published in New York around 1899, a year after the Spanish-American War ended and while the United States was deeply involved in Cuba's affairs. Strohmeyer & Wyman sold cards like this in large numbers for parlor stereoscopes, which merged two slightly different photographs into one view with apparent depth. The card shows how publishers packaged foreign places as lively, affectionate scenes for American viewers.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Group portraits 1890-1900.Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 24509(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman. |
| Subjects | Children--Cuba--Villa Clara--1890-1900. Crowds--Cuba--Villa Clara--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,301 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-203544 |
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