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Havana from Cabanas Castle – Vintage Print

Havana from Cabanas Castle — historic photograph
Havana from Cabanas Castle. 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: Havana from Cabanas Castle, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Havana from Cabanas Castle

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Looking across the harbor from the walls of Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro's neighbor, the Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, this view takes in the city of Havana as it looked around 1900. The fortress, finished in the late 1700s by Spanish colonial engineers, guarded the entrance to the bay and later housed Spanish troops. Cyanotype, a early photographic process that produces a distinctive blue print, was still in use then, and its tones give the rooftops and waterfront a dreamlike, monochrome quality worth noticing.

Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
Notesc1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 451 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126140

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