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[View of Matanzas, Cuba, with waterways in foreground] – Antique Photo Print

[View of Matanzas, Cuba, with waterways in foreground], [between 1900 and 1940] — historic photograph
[View of Matanzas, Cuba, with waterways in foreground], [between 1900 and 1940]. 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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[View of Matanzas, Cuba, with waterways in foreground] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[View of Matanzas, Cuba, with waterways in foreground]

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Matanzas, a port city on Cuba's northern coast about 100 kilometers east of Havana, is the focus here, with its waterways and harbor filling the foreground. The record dates the print to sometime between 1900 and 1940, a stretch when Cuban ports handled a steady flow of sugar, molasses and other exports bound for American and European markets. Matanzas was known in that era as the "City of Bridges" because several rivers cut through it, and boats moving along those channels were a common sight. The photograph's emphasis on the water and the vessels suggests a document of the port's working life rather than a formal portrait of the town.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreMarines (Art) 1900-1940.Photographic prints 1900-1940.
SubjectsHarbors--Cuba--Matanzas--1900-1940. Boats--Cuba--Matanzas--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187286

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