Scene in a country village, Cuba – Antique Print
(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: Scene in a country village, Cuba, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Scene in a country village, Cuba
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A rural village in Cuba, caught in a late-1890s stereograph, offers a rare glimpse of the countryside just as the island was passing from Spanish rule to American oversight. The card was issued by the American Stereoscopic Company, a firm that sold paired photographs to be viewed through a hand stereoscope, which made scenes like this one appear to stand in three dimensions in the parlor. Cuba drew strong American interest around 1899, after the Spanish-American War, and views of its towns and farms circulated widely in the United States. The record's details are unverified, so the exact location and date should be treated with some caution.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by R.Y. Young (American Stereoscopic Co.). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 790 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139986 |
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