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[View of plaza and buildings, Havana, Cuba] / Taller Fotografico. – Historic Photograph Print

[View of plaza and buildings, Havana, Cuba] / Taller Fotografico., [between 1920 and 1930] — historic photograph
[View of plaza and buildings, Havana, Cuba] / Taller Fotografico., [between 1920 and 1930]. 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: [View of plaza and buildings, Havana, Cuba] / Taller Fotografico., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[View of plaza and buildings, Havana, Cuba] / Taller Fotografico.

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Havana's plazas in the 1920s were the civic and commercial heart of a city that had grown rich on sugar and was drawing a steady stream of American tourists. The record's subject headings point to banks alongside the open squares, a reminder that financial houses and public space stood side by side in the city's colonial core. The print carries a credit to the Cuban Tourism Commission, so it was likely made to present Havana as a polished destination. Its maker, Taller Fotografico, is named only in the title line, so the exact vantage point and building names are not recorded.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1930]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesCredit: Cuban Tourism Commission, Havana, Cuba.
SubjectsPlazas--Cuba--Havana--1920-1930. Banks--Cuba--Havana--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168010

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