Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
American Photo Company Cuba photograph album
0598
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: American Photo Company Cuba photograph album
Creator:
American Photo Co.
Creator:
Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-1972
Identifier/Call Number: 0598
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear Feet
1 box
Date: circa 1911
Abstract: Photograph album consisting of 27 black and white silver prints, each approximately 8 x 10", of Cuba. Scenes include landscapes,
city scapes, and genre scenes. Each photograph is accompanied by a glassine leaf with typed photo descriptions. Of particular
note are photographs of both the sinking and raising of the USS Maine. Also includes a poem written by Irene Wright, who
may have been the owner of the album. Wright was an American historian who spent time in Havana as a writer for the Havana
Post, an editor of the Havana Telegraph, and owner of the Cuban Magazine.
Language of Material:
English
.
Container: 1
Photograph album consisting of 27 black and white silver prints, each approximately 8 x 10", of Cuba. Scenes include landscapes,
city scapes, and genre scenes. One of the photographs is identified with the American Photo Company's information, and the
others include what can be assumed are inventory/negative numbers. Each photograph is accompanied by a glassine leaf with
typed photo descriptions. Of particular note are photographs of both the sinking and raising of the USS Maine. Also includes
a poem written by Irene Wright, who may have been the owner of the album.
Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
[Box/folder no. or item name], American Photo Company Cuba photograph album, Collection no. 0598, Boeckmann Center for Iberian
and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Buckingham Books, 2019.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cuba -- Description and travel -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Cuba -- Photographs
Cuba -- Social life and customs -- Photographs
Photograph albums
Photographs
American Photo Co. -- Archives
Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-1972 -- Archives