City bldg., Havana, Cuba – Historic Photo Reproduction
![City bldg., Havana, Cuba, [between 1908 and 1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bb/bbff12a3cee8-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of City bldg., Havana, Cuba. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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City bldg., Havana, Cuba
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The National Photo Company, a Washington-based studio that produced a huge body of commercial views in the early twentieth century, turned its glass-plate camera on the Cuban capital in this image of a municipal building in Havana. The record gives the title only as unverified information copied from the negative or its sleeve, so the specific building is not confirmed here, but the date range of roughly 1908 to 1919 places it in an era when Havana was expanding rapidly under American influence after the Spanish-American War. Visitors should also notice the surface of the glass itself: the record notes streaks and blemishes from the deterioration of the original coatings, which give the image its characteristic texture.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,960 × 4,272 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249241 |
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