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[Interior, the cathedral, Havana, Cuba] – Historic Print

[Interior, the cathedral, Havana, Cuba], c[between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
[Interior, the cathedral, Havana, Cuba], c[between 1900 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Few interiors from turn-of-the-century Havana survive at this size, and this one shows the cathedral's nave as a visitor would have seen it in the early 1900s. The church, dedicated to Saint Christopher, was begun by the Jesuits in the mid-1700s and completed in the Baroque style that still shapes its interior. Detroit Publishing Company crews traveled widely to record cities and sites like this one, and their large glass negatives were used to make the color photochrom prints the firm sold as souvenirs and travel views.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30132. Title and date from Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017668. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCathedrals. Interiors.Cuba--Havana.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan791 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61340

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