The Theatre, Cienfuegos, Cuba – Vintage Print
(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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The Theatre, Cienfuegos, Cuba
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Cienfuegos sits on a bay on Cuba's southern coast, a port founded by French settlers in 1819 and shaped by the sugar trade that brought it wealth. This view of its theater dates to about 1901, a few years after the Spanish-American War ended Spanish rule and left the island under American military administration. The Detroit Publishing Company sent photographers across the United States and abroad to record towns and public buildings, and this picture reflects that effort to document civic life in a Cuba undergoing rapid change. The caption information is old and unverified, so the building's exact identity is worth checking against other sources.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1901. |
| Subjects | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 8854. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cuba--C...; Theaters--Foreign; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,071 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126643 |
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