[Puerto Rico]: Negro laborers for Cuba – Vintage Print
![[Puerto Rico]: Negro laborers for Cuba, [between 1898 and 1899] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a22d02b6b0ed-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Puerto Rico]: Negro laborers for Cuba, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Puerto Rico]: Negro laborers for Cuba
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The caption places this photograph at Guánica, a port on Puerto Rico's southern coast, and describes the people shown as Black laborers bound for Cuba. U.S. forces landed at Guánica in July 1898 during the Spanish-American War, so the scene falls in a brief, unsettled period when both islands were changing hands and their sugar economies were being reorganized. Planters on both islands relied on seasonal and migrant labor, and workers moved between the Caribbean islands in these years. The date range is an estimate from the catalog record, so the exact occasion for the picture is best read with that uncertainty in mind.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1899] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No. 49. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Puerto Rico--Guanica; Cuba--Hist--1898; U.S. Hist--War of 1898; Blacks--Employment; Shelf. Sources checked: WWW; ALA; OCat. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139876 |
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