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La Concha beach, Havana, Cuba – Vintage Print

La Concha beach, Havana, Cuba, [ca. 1950] — historic photograph
La Concha beach, Havana, Cuba, [ca. 1950]. 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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This historic photograph of La Concha beach, Havana, Cuba brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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La Concha beach, Havana, Cuba

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La Concha beach sits on the Atlantic side of Havana, a stretch of sand that by the early 1950s was one of the city's most popular spots for swimming and sunbathing. Tourism was booming in Cuba at that time, and the Cuban Tourist Commission promoted images like this one to draw visitors from the United States and elsewhere. Most of the beachgoers in these promotional scenes came from Havana's middle and upper classes, who had access to the cars and clubs that lined the nearby coast. The print is worth a close look for what it reveals about how the island presented itself to the world before the Revolution transformed its economy and its tourist trade.

Created / published[ca. 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1950.
NotesFrom(?) Cuban Tourist Commission, Havana, Cuba. No. H-176.
SubjectsBeaches--Cuba--Havana--1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 958 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167568

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