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Cuba - Matanzas - City Hall from the Plaza – Historic Reproduction

Cuba - Matanzas - City Hall from the Plaza — historic photograph
Cuba - Matanzas - City Hall from the Plaza. 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: Cuba - Matanzas - City Hall from the Plaza, 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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Cuba - Matanzas - City Hall from the Plaza

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Matanzas, a port city on Cuba's north coast about 60 miles east of Havana, is the setting here, with the city hall pictured across its central plaza. The view dates to around 1904, a few years after Spanish colonial rule ended in 1898 and the island moved through US military administration toward independence as a republic in 1902. Photographs of civic buildings seen from the square were common at the time and show how public architecture was used to express order and a new national identity. The city was known in the nineteenth century for its cultural life, which earned it the nickname "Athens of Cuba.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1904.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125462

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