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Cuba - Starving Cubans at Matanzas – Antique Print

Cuba - Starving Cubans at Matanzas, c1898. — historic photograph
Cuba - Starving Cubans at Matanzas, c1898.. 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: Cuba - Starving Cubans at Matanzas, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Matanzas, a port city on Cuba's north coast, is the place named on this stereograph, whose caption card also gives the word "starvation." Griffith & Griffith issued the card as part of a numbered series around 1898, the year the United States went to war with Spain over Cuba. Earlier, during the Cuban War of Independence, Spanish authorities under Governor-General Valeriano Weyler forced rural families into crowded towns under a policy called reconcentration, and hunger and disease followed. Views like this one carried those scenes to American parlors and helped shape public opinion.

Created / publishedc1898.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Griffith & Griffith. No. 1466. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist--1898; Geogr.; Starvation; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 797 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148944

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