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[Street scene in old Havana, Cuba, with steeple of church in background] – Vintage Wall Art

[Street scene in old Havana, Cuba, with steeple of church in background], c1918. — historic print
[Street scene in old Havana, Cuba, with steeple of church in background], c1918.. Historic print from the Latin America collection.

(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: [Street scene in old Havana, Cuba, with steeple of church in background], preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Narrow streets and a church steeple rising above the rooftops make this view of Havana's old colonial core, where the city was first laid out after its founding in 1519. Cuba had become an independent republic in 1902, and by the 1910s American visitors, businesses and tourists were a growing presence in Havana, which fueled a market for picture postcards and printed views like this one. The U.S. Copyright Office notation shows the image was registered for copyright, which is why a copy survives in the Library of Congress. The print is a useful record of how the old city's streets and churches looked to outsiders in the years around World War I.

Created / publishedc1918.
Medium1 photomechanical print.
GenrePhotomechanical prints 1910-1920.
NotesK128560 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsStreets--Cuba--Havana--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan955 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167348

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