Centro Asturiano De La Havana [Havana Identification card] Carnet de identificacion Cuba 1928
Havana: [Cuban Government], 1928.
Havana: [Cuban Government], 1928.
Letter dated January 1, 1818. Concerns casks / bottles of rum; family members and an invitation to travel/accommodation. The author was William Fairclough's brother.
Shipping manifest from port of Havana (possibly printed there) in English, dated 1836. Partially printed and complete in manuscript.
New York: Harper’s Weekly, 1869. Background Information:In 1868 the first war of Cuban independence, also known as the Ten Years' War, begins. It lasts until 1878.The Ten Years' War (Guerra de los Diez Años), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of.....
Madrid: Photoengranving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898. Background Information:La Ilustración Española y Americana was a weekly Spanish magazine that was published from 1869 to 1921. The Cuban War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba.....
New York: Underwood and Underwood Publishers, 1902.
Chicago: Poole Bros. for P&O Steamship Company, [c1910]. Stapled Color Illustrated Wraps. Written as a travelogue finishing with travel instructions and brief explanations of the steamer coast. Travel from and to Havana, Cuba; Knights Key - Key West, Tampa, Miami and St Petersburg Florida; Nassau, Bahamas.Includes information on these other.....
USA: Kirkeby Hotel, 1953. Hotel National de Cuba, Havana. A Kirkeby Hotel. Folded 8-panel brochure 9 inches by 4 inches closed and opened to 16 inches. Color and b/w photos laid out with captions and text. Undated, Kirkeby operated the hotel from 1943 to 1953. A handsome promotional brochure advertising.....
USA: Xlibris, Corp. 2010. A Fine Soft cover. The Incomplete Traveler is a human story of strength and grit in the face of a series of historical events that lead to the loss of a homeland, and the need to adapt to life in exile.The history of the Fidel Castro.....
Caribbean: A.S. Carter, 1879. The letter was written by A. S. Carter, Trinidad, June 14, 1879 on Loud, Claridge & Co. [Baltimore, ship chandlers] letterhead, laid paper to his daughter. The author describes future business in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Brooklyn. He defines accounts and dollars to be paid.....
Havana: Ucar Garcia Co., c1935. Stapled Wraps. The guidebook is a treasure trove of diverse subjects, spanning sightseeing, golf, hunting, fishing, Carnival revelry, vibrant nightlife in nightclubs and casinos, visits to sugar, coffee, and tobacco plantations, as well as the allure of Havana's cosmopolitan offerings. But its standout feature is.....
Havana, Cuba: Cuban Tourist Commission, 1949. Created by Artist Rogelio L. Mirabal. A handsome pre-revolution view of Havana during Havana's tourist boom. Cuba and the United States shared a remarkably close relationship in the period preceding Fidel Castro's ascent to power in 1959, Their economies were deeply interlinked, mainly through.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. Best known as the author of Two Years Before the Mast, Dana only authored three books and this travelogue has significance as his travels were in 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States should try to annex.....
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2002. A significant contribution to our understanding of the complex process of the Cuban struggle towards reforming and severing ties with Spain, this book disentangles the formerly unexplored financial and monetary factors at the center of Spain's interests and in so doing makes an.....
Philadelphia: Published by Carey & Lea, 1822. Drawn by Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854). One of the most detailed maps of the Bahama Islands to appear in a Commercial Atlas. Lengthy narrative text below includes details about the islands, climates, towns, soils, government and history of each.Carey & Lea's Atlas is.....
Philadelphia: Published by Carey & Lea. c.1822. Fielding Lucas, Jr. "The best atlas of early nineteenth century America."With the French part of the island, to the west, shown in pink and the Spanish part in yellow. With the history of unrest on the island described in the text below the.....
Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1897. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Popular piece on the history of the Cuban nationalist struggle against Spain. This reprint edition was published in the same year as the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, 1898. The tone is of US imperialism through 400 years of history.
Portland, OR: Hargreaves Industrial, 1960. Soft cover. Small enough to carry easily on field trips, this informative guidebook will add a great deal of pleasure to the journey. In addition to the natural setting photographs, each alphabetized entry gives the plant or tree name in several languages, distribution, brief description.....
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Rafael Hernández is the editor of Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, which is renowned for its contribution to intellectual controversy on the island. He is a senior research fellow.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Havana, Cuba: Impresores Ucar, Garcia, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff Wraps. Translation of the Title: 'Massaguer His Life and His Autobiography Graphic History and Anecdotal' 1907-1957 Havana Cuba 1958 dedicated to the Fiftieth Anniversary of Conrado Walter Massaguer.Background Information:Conrado W. Massaguer is remembered as the dominant force in graphic.....
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. With more than 300 dazzling photographs, this book offers an international look at Carnival in New Orleans and Basile, Louisiana; Laza, Spain; rural Bulgaria; Venice, Italy; Basel, Switzerland; Tlaxcala, Mexico; Oruro, Bolivia;.....