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Highlights from SAHARA: Cuba
May 10, 2016
by
Jacqueline Spafford and Jeffrey Klee, SAHARA Co-Editors
For this month’s SAHARA feature, we celebrate the restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba by highlighting Cuban content. This includes photographs taken during the SAH tour to the island in 2012. The collection is particularly strong in images of twentieth-century buildings both before and after the Cuban Revolution but also includes material from the colonial period.
To visit this collection and others in SAHARA go to: http://sahara.artstor.org/library/portals/SAHARA/rloginSAH.html
And to learn more about contributing to SAHARA, visit:
http://www.sah.org/publications-and-research/sahara
Diego Velásquez House, Santiago, Cuba, said to be the oldest house in Cuba, built 1516-1530. John C. Blew, photographer.
Hotel Florida, Havana, Cuba, begun 1836, converted to hotel c. 1856. Throughout the 20th century, this structure had many functions (public offices, warehouse, residential, bank) until it was remodeled and restored by the Office of the City Historian under the architects Noris Bacallao, Lina Alba Díaz, and Rafael Palli. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
Church of the Savior of the World, Havana, Cuba, 1850. John C. Blew, photographer.
Mira y Rosich, Ricardo Galbis, and Vincente Llorenas, Hotel Varadero, Varadero, Cuba, 1949-50. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
Aquiles Capablanca, Office of the Comptroller (currently Ministry of the Interior), Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba, 1953. Image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara added later. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
Octavio Buigas, José Martí Sporting Arena, Havana, Cuba, 1960. John C. Blew, photographer.
Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti, National Art Schools (on site of former Havana Country Club), Havana, Cuba, 1961-65. John C. Blew, photographer.
Antonio Quintana, House of the Cosmonauts, Varadero, Cuba, 1975. Originally a place for rest for cosmonauts, now a hotel. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
To visit this collection and others in SAHARA go to: http://sahara.artstor.org/library/portals/SAHARA/rloginSAH.html
And to learn more about contributing to SAHARA, visit:
http://www.sah.org/publications-and-research/sahara
Diego Velásquez House, Santiago, Cuba, said to be the oldest house in Cuba, built 1516-1530. John C. Blew, photographer.
Hotel Florida, Havana, Cuba, begun 1836, converted to hotel c. 1856. Throughout the 20th century, this structure had many functions (public offices, warehouse, residential, bank) until it was remodeled and restored by the Office of the City Historian under the architects Noris Bacallao, Lina Alba Díaz, and Rafael Palli. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
Church of the Savior of the World, Havana, Cuba, 1850. John C. Blew, photographer.
Mira y Rosich, Ricardo Galbis, and Vincente Llorenas, Hotel Varadero, Varadero, Cuba, 1949-50. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
Aquiles Capablanca, Office of the Comptroller (currently Ministry of the Interior), Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba, 1953. Image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara added later. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.
Octavio Buigas, José Martí Sporting Arena, Havana, Cuba, 1960. John C. Blew, photographer.
Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti, National Art Schools (on site of former Havana Country Club), Havana, Cuba, 1961-65. John C. Blew, photographer.
Antonio Quintana, House of the Cosmonauts, Varadero, Cuba, 1975. Originally a place for rest for cosmonauts, now a hotel. Erica Morawski, photographer, 2012.