| Photos of Cuba: Spanish-American War Era (1898) |
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| THE DUNGEON UNDER ATARES CASTLE: The apartment on the left was formerly used as a place of torture and the doorway on the right enters the death chamber. In the foreground are shown various instruments of torture, together with the dead wagon used by the Spaniards. | STREET SCENE IN CERRO, SUBURBS OF HAVANA: A quaint village among the hills near the Almendares River. It is remarkable for its tortuous streets and antiquated houses, many of which are in ruins. | TEAMING ON THE IMPERIAL ROAD NEAR HAVANA: Photograph shows five-mule-tandem hitched to lumber cart. Lines are used only on the wheel animal, the leaders instinctively obeying his movements. |
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| JUVENILE TYPES, SUBURBS OF HAVANA: Native boys near the village of Cerro, playing "chuck the rock," similar to the American game of "duck the rock." It is contrary to popular custom in Cuba for children of both sexes to play together, as is evinced by the attitude of the little girl who watches the game from behind the barred window casement. | PUENTES GRANDES, A SUBURB OF HAVANA: Showing four-ox team such as is used in all the districts of Cuba. Where the ascent is very pronounced an additional ox team is placed in the rear of the cart, being trained to assist by pushing. | HEAD WATERS OF THE RIO ALMENDARES: Showing source and works of Havana's excellent water supply. |
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| ANCIENT CHATALET ON THE ALMENDARES: An extreme outpost of the Imperial forces during the Cuban-Spanish war, the owner of this chatalet was on one occasion besieged in his stronghold by a detachment of insurgents and for a period of two months was unable to make his escape with his family. | VOTARIES OF THE COCKPIT: The bird shown in the photograph is known as a "patogallo" (pato-gallo, literally "duck-rooster"), partaking both of the nature of a chicken and a goose, used in cockfighting. Attention is called to its sharpness of beak and length of legs, one of its toes being shown protruding from between the fingers of its master. This species of game fowl is the most formidable known, and one of them has been known to whip half a dozen ordinary fighting birds in rapid succession. | SCENE AT BATABANO, SOUTH COAST OF HAVANA PROVINCE: Batabano is the center of the sponge-fishing industry of the West Indies. In this quaint little seaport, the streets are in some instances replaced by canals, like those of Venice. The photograph shows one of these watery thoroughfares, together with the gondola-like conveyances of the natives. |
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| SPONGE FISHING FLEET IN THE HARBOR OF BATABANO | FISHER FOLK AND THEIR HOMES AT BATABANO | CEMETERY IN THE SUBURBS OF HAVANA: The graves shown in the photograph were rented for a term of years. If at the expiration of the period the lease was not renewed, the bodies were exhumed and thrown into a great open pit in a remote corner of the grounds. This practice has recently been abolished by the American authorities. |
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