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[The Custom House Gate, Havana] – Antique Wall Art

[The Custom House Gate, Havana] — historic photograph
[The Custom House Gate, Havana]. 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 [The Custom House Gate, Havana]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The gate of the Custom House in Havana is the subject here, a point where goods arriving at the city's harbor came under official inspection. The record dates the photograph only tentatively to 1899 and credits Ernest C. Rost of New York as its maker. Those years followed the Spanish-American War, when the United States occupied Cuba and American officials took over the island's customs administration. Because import duties were a major source of government revenue, the building sat at the center of that transition, and a picture of its entrance shows a moment when control of the island's affairs was changing hands.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1899?]
SubjectsPhoto by Ernest C. Rost, N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: PI; Cuba--Havana; Americans in Cuba; Customs administrations; US Hist.--Spanish-American War; Customs houses; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,192 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128765

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