Cuban home life – Historic Reproduction
(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: Cuban home life, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Numbered 16 in a run of 1910s photographic prints, this view of Cuban home life is catalogued under women's domestic routines rather than a famous site or event. It dates to 1917, when Cuba had been an independent republic for about fifteen years but still bore strong economic and political ties to the United States. Sugar prices rose sharply during the war years, and many households depended on an economy built around the cane harvest. The record does not name a photographer, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of ordinary daily life rather than a portrait of one family.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 16. |
| Subjects | Women--Domestic life--Cuba--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,119 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167575 |
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