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Cuban women washing [clothes] in the river at Guantanamo, Cuba – Antique Print

Cuban women washing [clothes] in the river at Guantanamo, Cuba, c1899. — historic photograph
Cuban women washing [clothes] in the river at Guantanamo, Cuba, c1899.. 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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A window into the past: Cuban women washing [clothes] in the river at Guantanamo, Cuba, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Cuban women washing [clothes] in the river at Guantanamo, Cuba

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Women washing clothes in a river near Guantanamo is the particular scene here, a daily labor that stereograph makers of the late 1890s liked to show as a glimpse of everyday life in newly occupied Cuba. The card was issued by Strohmeyer & Wyman, a New York firm that sold stereo views to home parlors, which were viewed through a binocular viewer to produce a three-dimensional effect. Laundering in rivers was common across the island, and photographers from the United States, often following the Spanish-American War, captured such scenes as picturesque records of local life. The record's details are old and unverified, so the exact site and date remain less certain than the card's general character.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women in Cuba; Laundry; Photog. I.; Cuba--Guantanamo; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 769 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139899

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