[Cuban War Minister Fulgencio Batista with his wife and officers of her military womens' legion, Cuba, 1935-36] – Historic Print
![[Cuban War Minister Fulgencio Batista with his wife and officers of her military womens' legion, Cuba, 1935-36], [between 1935 and 1936] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5f/5fb665cb4621-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Cuban War Minister Fulgencio Batista with his wife and officers of her military womens' legion, Cuba, 1935-36]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Cuban War Minister Fulgencio Batista with his wife and officers of her military womens' legion, Cuba, 1935-36]
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Fulgencio Batista appears here with his wife and officers of a women's military legion, a pairing that sets this picture apart from more typical portraits of Cuban officials. Batista rose from sergeant to army chief after the 1933 Sergeants' Revolt and dominated Cuban politics for the next two decades. The print was issued by Weltbild, a Berlin picture agency that supplied images to European publications, so it shows how Cuban public life was presented abroad. The caption data is unverified, so the exact date and the work suggested by the caption tracing should be read with some caution.
| Created / published | [between 1935 and 1936] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint by Weltbild, Berlin. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Iron work; Cuba; B.I. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148798 |
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