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In the city of Santiago de Cuba - looking toward the harbor – Antique Wall Art

In the city of Santiago de Cuba - looking toward the harbor, c1899. — historic photograph
In the city of Santiago de Cuba - looking toward the harbor, c1899.. 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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Step back in time with In the city of Santiago de Cuba - looking toward the harbor, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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In the city of Santiago de Cuba - looking toward the harbor

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Santiago de Cuba, on the island's southeastern coast, was one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas, and this stereograph turns its waterfront into a three-dimensional view meant for parlor viewers. The card dates to about 1899, the year the Spanish-American War ended and Spain's hold on Cuba gave way to American occupation, so the scene captures a city in the middle of dramatic political change. The record also tags the image with "Women," suggesting that figures on the street or quay were part of the composition. Stereo cards like this were copyrighted by R.Y. Young for the American Stereoscopic Company and sold in large numbers, which is why they remain such a vivid record of everyday life in the period.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrgihted by R.Y. Young (American Stereoscopic Company). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Cuba--1899; Photog. I. (2); Cuba--Santiago--1899; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 791 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141157

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