Reconcentrados, Havana – Historic Reproduction
![Reconcentrados, Havana, [between 1899 and 1901?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a9644bd39db5-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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This historic photograph of Reconcentrados, Havana brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Reconcentrados, Havana
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Reconcentrados, the title of this Havana view, refers to the people the Spanish government gathered from the Cuban countryside, and the word itself names the policy behind them. In 1896 and 1897, Governor-General Valeriano Weyler ordered rural families into guarded towns and camps to cut off support for insurgents fighting Spanish rule. Crowding, hunger and disease in these settlements killed tens of thousands, and their plight fueled American newspaper outrage before the Spanish-American War. The date in the record is bracketed and uncertain, so the picture is best read as a record of the aftermath, when survivors remained in Havana's refugee camps during the U.S. occupation.
| Created / published | [between 1899 and 1901?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Hugh L. Scott Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Refugees; B.I. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,102 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148949 |
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