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In Colon Park, Havana, Cuba – Antique Print

In Colon Park, Havana, Cuba, Decatur, Ill. : International View Co., c1900. — historic photograph
In Colon Park, Havana, Cuba, Decatur, Ill. : International View Co., c1900.. Historic photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of In Colon Park, Havana, Cuba. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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In Colon Park, Havana, Cuba

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Colon Park, now known as Parque Colón, sits in Old Havana and takes its name from Christopher Columbus, whose statue stands at its center. This stereograph was issued around 1900 by the International View Co. of Decatur, Illinois, a firm that sold paired photographs meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The card dates from just after the Spanish-American War, when American travelers and the U.S. military were becoming a visible presence in Havana, and such views helped bring distant places like Cuba into American parlors.

Created / publishedDecatur, Ill. : International View Co., c1900.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900.
NotesD14139 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. No. 538-d.
SubjectsParks--Cuba--Havana--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,090 × 3,266 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-196482

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