 | Asi Era Cuba - The Way We Were (172)
These postcards depict late 19th and early 20th century everyday scenes of a Cuban traditional way of life that no longer exists.
| | Bacardi (17)
In the early part of the 19th Century, a wine merchant named Don Facundo Bacardi Masso emigrated from Spanish Catalonia to Santiago de Cuba. Experimenting with the destillation of rum in his own home, Don Facundo transformed rum from the harsh and fiery drink it was into a type of very drinkable, smooth spirit. He established the Bacardi Company in 1862.
| | Celebridades - Celebrities (31) | | Historia Politica - Political History (58) | | Industria del Azucar - Sugar Industry (53)
The sugar industry began in the XVI century developing into Cuba's main industry by the XIX century. Sugar became the center of life in Cuba, considered both curse and blessing. The sugar industry provided great wealth but great social differences and was directly responsible for the introduction of slavery in the New World.
| | Industria del Tabaco - Tobacco Industry (39)
The cards illustrate the beginning of the now world famous Cuban cigar industry. It shows the men and women who hand wrapped the tobacco leaves into the finished product that was, and still is, considered the best cigars in the world.
| | Isla de Pinos - Isle of Pines (61)
Ahora se le llama Isla de la Juventud. It is now called Isle of Youth.
| | La Habana (820) 
Si me pierdo....que me busquen en La Habana! Federico Garcia Lorca.
| | Paisajes Cubanos - Cuban Landscape (72)
No hay tierra mas bella que la tierra mia....
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