Guerra de Independencia de Cuba--Combate de Magueyes--Camino Real de Veguitas a Bayamo, diciembre 17, 1896 – Vintage Wall Art
![Guerra de Independencia de Cuba--Combate de Magueyes--Camino Real de Veguitas a Bayamo, diciembre 17, 1896, [ca. 1910] — vintage postcard](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/5656de1033c4-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Guerra de Independencia de Cuba--Combate de Magueyes--Camino Real de Veguitas a Bayamo, diciembre 17, 1896, preserved in this vintage postcard. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Guerra de Independencia de Cuba--Combate de Magueyes--Camino Real de Veguitas a Bayamo, diciembre 17, 1896
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The title places this scene at Magueyes, along the old royal road between Veguitas and Bayamo, where a skirmish was fought on December 17, 1896. That was deep into the Cuban War of Independence, which began in 1895 when insurgents rose against Spanish colonial rule and fought largely in the countryside, or *manigua*, of the eastern provinces. The card's folder title, *Recuerdos de la Manigua* ("Memories of the Backcountry"), reflects how such rural campaigns became part of Cuban memory. Printed around 1910, the postcard shows how the war was being retold after Cuba's independence was established in 1902.
| Created / published | [ca. 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (postcard) |
| Genre | Postcards 1910.Photomechanical prints 1910. |
| Notes | Postcard in folder: Recuerdos de la Manigua, 1895-1898. |
| Subjects | Cuba--History--Revolution, 1895-1898--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,226 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178386 |
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