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[Columbus Cathedral, Havana, Cuba, with horse-drawn wagons and group of men outside] – Vintage Wall Art

[Columbus Cathedral, Havana, Cuba, with horse-drawn wagons and group of men outside], [189-?] — historic photograph
[Columbus Cathedral, Havana, Cuba, with horse-drawn wagons and group of men outside], [189-?]. 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: [Columbus Cathedral, Havana, Cuba, with horse-drawn wagons and group of men outside], 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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Few churches in the Americas carry a stranger claim than the building shown here, which was known as the Columbus Cathedral because the remains of Christopher Columbus rested inside it during the 1890s. Outside, the street life is ordinary: horse-drawn wagons and a group of men stand in the open, a reminder that Havana's streets still ran on animal power. The cathedral's Baroque facade dates to construction the Jesuits began in the 1700s. The picture was made in the final years of Spanish rule over Cuba, when the island's capital was a busy port.

Created / published[189-?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsCathedrals--Cuba--Havana--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,114 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167674

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