A Spanish bone-pit, Havana, Cuba – Vintage 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 Spanish bone-pit, Havana, Cuba
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The caption sets this view apart from the many tomb and monument pictures in the series by focusing on a bone-pit, a place where remains were gathered after graves were reopened. Such charnel pits were a common feature of Havana's cemeteries during the Spanish colonial period, when burial ground was scarce and reused. Keystone View Co. issued this stereograph around 1900, shortly after the Spanish-American War, when Cuba was under American occupation and American viewers were taking a keen interest in the island. Like other stereo cards of the era, it was meant to be viewed through a hand viewer for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 9983. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Skeletons & skulls; Cemeteries--Cubla; Cuba--Havana; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 785 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141162 |
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