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Grand and Central America tour album
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2008.001.034
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June 1903 (Creation)
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1 album (50 pages, 228 b&w photographs, 1 print, 1 chart): 28.5L x 37.5W x 5.5H
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Black cover and pages.Album manufactured in New York by F.L. Schafuss & Co. Photographs glued in. Handwritten notations in black ink. Includes panoramic photographs and one navigational chart for sailing. Some loose photographs.
Photographs are travel snapshots from a cruise aboard the S.S. Vigilancia, a steamship that traveled from New York to Vera Cruz, Mexico. There are photographs of the popular sites and activities in Cuba, Bahamas and Mexico, including bullfighting, shoe shining, street scenes, cattle ranches, restaurants, mahogany, rubber, cocoa and banana trees, canoeing, vendors, Pico de Orizaba, markets. cathedrals, monuments, etc.
Other notable photographs are of the interior of The Grand Hotel, Wreck of the USS Maine at Havana, Monument to Cubans executed by the Spanish at Fort Cabana, ox-carts, and horse-drawn trams. Photographs taken at The Sequential Great Bull Fight, Havana. Vera City Mexico, Frontera Tobasco Mexico, Monte Cristo, Balancan, San Carlos, Santa Margarita, Vega Canal, Calle de Mayo and Mexico City.
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Silver mirroring. Album pages torn and warped. Large prints are discoloured and fading. Some loose photographs.
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- North and Central America » United States » New York (state) » New York (City)
- North and Central America » United States » Georgia
- North and Central America » United States » Georgia » Savannah
- North and Central America » Mexico
- North and Central America » United States » Maine
- North and Central America » Cuba
- North and Central America » Cuba » La Habana
- North and Central America » United States » New York (state)
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- Shields, Lorne (Subject)