| Photos of Cuba: Spanish-American War Era (1898) |
| PAGE 11 |
| These antique photographic images are of Cuba, Cubans, the Cuban landscape, and the U.S. military occupation of the country as a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The images come from the massive 1899 two-volume set Our Islands and Their People. The photographs are simply stunning and incredibly rare. |
| A squad of Havana volunteers, circa 1898. |
Click to enlarge.| A CUBAN COFFEE PLANTER AND HIS PRODUCT: The coffee industry of Cuba is greatly diversified. Many individuals possess only a few trees, which they cultivate in a small way with reasonable profit for themselves. The photograph represents one of these small planters with his year's crop of the aromatic berry piled in sacks on the horse that doubtless carried him through many a hotly contested skirmish during the war period. |
Click to enlarge.| A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN HAVANA: Illustrating the limited attendance and number of teachers employed at the average institutions of learning throughout the city. |
Click to enlarge.| UNLOADING COFFEE FOR TRANSPORTATION: In spite of the destruction wrought by the war, Cuba has many profitable industries that will serve as a base for her future prosperity. None of these, perhaps, are more promising than her coffee plantations, many of which being in the interior passed through the era of disturbance comparatively unharmed. The illustration shows the method of conveying the coffee from the plantation to the warehouses of the merchants at Havana. |
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