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Cuban Resort Photograph Album, 1936.
Bernath Mss 107LOCAL
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Title:
Cuban Resort Photograph Album, 1936Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
From dealer description: Photo album: Summer 1936 in a Cuban resort. A photograph album measuring 7 by 10 inches. Contains
32 leaves, each with a 4 3/4 by 7 1/4 inch photograph tipped-on, and one extra photo. A penciled inscription reads "Verano
[Summer] 1936." Each photo is stamped on the back "San Miguel de los Banos. Fuente de Juventud [Fountain of Youth]." The photos
were developed in Cardenas, Cuba. San Miguel de los Banos is a sulphur springs resort, surrounded by mountains, in west Cuba,
about 15 miles from Cardenas and 90 miles from Havana. Its heyday was the first half of the 20th century; today only ruins
of its former affluence survive, although it is still a tourist spot. These professional-quality photographs include five
overviews of the area, and the activities of a young party of vacationers, enjoying the view from a treehouse, walking through
a lush forest, admiring garden grotesques, and posing with a donkey and a Brahma bull. One young man in a sombrero rides a
horse and a Brahma bull, holds the bull by the horns, and walks among the palm trees with a rifle. An older man, in two-piece
bathing suit, descends the stairs to the springs. One photo is detached; the others are attached with photo corners.
Date:
1936 (issued)Subject:
nwcu---Sulfur springs
Resorts
Sources sulfureuses
Lieux de villégiature
resorts
Resorts
Sulfur springs
San Miguel de los Banos (Cuba)
Cuba -- Pictorial works
Cuba -- Ouvrages illustrés
Cuba
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Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Purchase, 2004.
Preliminary finding aid available in the Department of Special Collections.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Cuban Resort Photograph Album, Bernath Mss 107. Department of Special Collections, Davidson
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Type:
Photographs.photograph albums.
photographs.
Pictorial works.
Photographs.
Albums photographiques.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
.2 linear ft.
Language:
Spanish
Identifier:
Bernath Mss 107LOCAL
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.