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Gran Hotel Inglaterra, Habana – Historic Print

Gran Hotel Inglaterra, Habana, c1900. — historic print
Gran Hotel Inglaterra, Habana, c1900.. Historic print from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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This rare historic print captures Gran Hotel Inglaterra, Habana in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Gran Hotel Inglaterra, Habana

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The Gran Hotel Inglaterra stood on Parque Central in Havana, a busy square in the Cuban capital that drew travelers, merchants, and officials around the turn of the twentieth century. This photochrom print, dated about 1900, shows the hotel in vivid color, a result of a process that combined several lithographic stones, each inked in a different hue, and was often finished by hand. The Detroit Publishing Company produced such images in large numbers and assembled them into albums for its own office, so this example also served as a working catalog of the firm's offerings. Its color and detail make it a useful record of how the city presented itself to visitors in that period.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53493. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsHotels.Cuba--Havana.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 732 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79040

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