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Preferred Citation

American Women in Cuba photograph album, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased with the assistance of the Mears Fund.

Content Description

This collection contains a thirty-leaf photograph album. It is illustrated with eighty-five mounted sepia-toned photographs and fifteen mounted cyanotypes, as well as nineteen photographs. The photographs document the lives of a group of American women who appear to be living in or near Havana, Cuba in the early twentieth century.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Cuba
• Cuba--Description and travel
• Cuba--History--20th century
• Havana (Cuba) -- History
• Latin America--Description and travel
• Photographs