Playa Ancon, Cuba – Antique Print
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(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 Playa Ancon, Cuba, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Playa Ancon, Cuba
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Playa Ancón sits on the southern coast of Cuba, a few miles east of the port city of Trinidad in the province of Sancti Spíritus. Its wide, pale sand and shallow Caribbean water made it one of the island's best-known beaches, and the Library of Congress dates this print to around 1964, a period when Cuba's revolutionary government was reshaping much of daily life, including tourism and public recreation. Because the record names only the place and the decade, the picture is best read as a glimpse of an ordinary seaside scene from the early 1960s, when the coast was becoming a focus of national development plans.
| Created / published | [1964?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1960-1970. |
| Subjects | Beaches--Cuba--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,250 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178380 |
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