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61003 twin 1898 photographs: "Plantation Life in Cuba"
Original 1898 photographs on card stock depicting Cuban children and a woman looking on as farm birds feed, entitled "9095 -- Plantation Life in Cuba". Card stock reads, in printed ink:
"Keystone View Company, Manufacturers & Publishers. Copyright 1898 by B. LeSingley. Meadville, Pa. St Louis, Mo. San Francisco, Cal. Toronto, Can. New York, N.Y London, England."
Back of card stock reads:
"Cuba was discovered by Columbus, Oct. 28, 1492; over run in 1511 by Diego Velasquez. Owing to the cruel treatment received in the next fifty years, the native population of over 300,000 was exterminated. Spain actively occupied Cuba 387 years. The Island is 750 miles long, and 60 to 70 miles wide, containing in 1895, 1,631,619 inhabitants, mainly Spanish, African and Mulatto. The religion is almost exclusively Roman Catholic. Poverty, illiteracy and immortality widely prevailed. The thermometer never rises as high as it does in New York and sunstrokes are unknown. From May to October the heat seldom reaches 104 degrees F. in any part of the Island. The average temperature of hottest month, 82 degrees; coldest month, 72 degrees.
"The poorer class of farmers live in low, thatched shanties, very much resembling a Yankee cow-shed. It is surprising to note the number of people who will live in one of these airy cabins in seeming happiness and content."
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