Title |
Cuba. Sugar plantation. Havana City and Harbor. Morro Castle. Santiago Cuba [graphic]. |
Publisher |
[United States] : [publisher not identified] |
Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1890 |
Date |
[ca. 1890] |
Physical Description |
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 14 x 10 cm (5.5 x 4 in.) |
Description |
Trade card specimen depicting vignettes of a black man in a hat smiling, a sugar plantation, Havana City’s harbor, Morro Castle,
and Santiago. In the top left is a circular vignette of a black man, attired in a brimmed straw hat and a white-collared shirt,
who looks to the right and smiles. In the top right is a sugar plantation with a man in horse-drawn cart hauling sugar cane.
Tall stalks of cane line the road. Beneath is a scene of the harbor in Havana City, with ships coming in and out. Mountains
are visible in the background. In the left are palm trees. A vignette of Morro Castle, the fortress guarding Havana Bay, is
depicted with a ship passing in front of it. In the bottom of the card is a depiction of Santiago, showing a wall with an
American flag flying on a pole with mountains in the background and water winding around the land below. In the foreground
are products from Cuba, including fruits, such as a pineapple, a pouch labeled “tobacco,” and a box of cigars.
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Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date deduced from the content. |
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Text printed on verso: Cuba. The area of Cuba is 41,655 square miles. The island is long and narrow and follows a curved line
through its centre; is 720 miles long and its average breadth is 80 miles. The highest part of the island is the range extending
in the southwest from the Punto de Maysi to Cape Cruz. There are mountains immediately above the harbor of Trinidad de Cuba
in the south, the highest of which is 2,990 feet above the sea level. The climate is hot on the coast and temperate on the
higher levels. Ten per cent of the area is, or was, cultivated. There are large tracts of the island still unexplored. A census
taken in 1887 reported the population to be 1,631, 687. Of this, 528,998 were negroes and mulattoes. The present population
is uncertain. Probably, as the results of devastating war, it has been cut down at least a fourth. Principal cities are Havana
(the capital), Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Principe, Holguin, Sancti Spiritus, Matanzas. Before the insurrection, there were
over 1,000 miles of railroad in operation on the island. The chief produce is sugar and tobacco. There is also production
of mahogany, fruits, honey and wax. Gold and silver have been found in paying quantities. The iron mines of Cuba, all of which
are located near Santiago, overshadow in importance all the other industries on the eastern end of the island. The ore of
these mines is among the richest in the world, yielding from 62 to 67 per cent of pure iron. The principal imports are flour,
rice and jerked beef. The chief exports are sugar and tobacco.
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Stamped on verso: 3259 12. |
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Gift of David Doret. |
Subject |
Black people -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Cigars. |
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Fruit. |
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Harbors. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Smiling. |
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Sugar plantations. |
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Tobacco. |
Geographic subject |
Castillo del Morro (Havana, Cuba) |
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Havana (Cuba). |
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Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) |
Genre |
Cards -- 1860-1890. |
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Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - Cuba [P.2017.95.202] |
Accession number |
P.2017.95.202 |