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[Views of Yumurí, Matanzas, Cuba] – Antique Wall Art

[Views of Yumurí, Matanzas, Cuba], [1954?] — historic photograph
[Views of Yumurí, Matanzas, Cuba], [1954?]. 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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A window into the past: [Views of Yumurí, Matanzas, Cuba], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Views of Yumurí, Matanzas, Cuba]

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The Yumurí Valley, a deep green gorge cut by the Yumurí River near the city of Matanzas on Cuba's north coast, is the subject here. The Cuban Tourist Commission, which promoted the island to visitors in the 1950s, is credited with the print, which is dated only tentatively to about 1954. Views like this one were part of a wider effort to present Cuba's landscapes to travelers, many of them from the United States, who visited the island in that period.

Created / published[1954?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreCuba
NotesPlease give credit to Cuban Tourist Commission
SubjectsValleys--Cuba--Matanzas (Province)--1950-1960. Yumurí Valley (Cuba)--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178416

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