November 17, 2008
Havana Harbor Circa 1910-1915
The Library of Congress has a bunch of public domain images on Flickr including these real old ones from Cuba from the early 20th Century. You may want to check some of them out. You can print them out if you like as well.
Below is one of native Cuban troops from the same era.
Maybe Delacova or some of your historians may have some more background on the identity of these "troops".
Posted by Cigar Mike at November 17, 2008 12:57 PM
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Gems! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Henry Agueros ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 17, 2008 01:03 PM
got to love those uniforms huh?
Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at November 17, 2008 01:09 PM
Mike
Well done
Do you have the URL link handy
Larry
Posted by: Larry Daley at November 17, 2008 02:15 PM
Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at November 17, 2008 02:19 PM
Mike:
thank you
take care and be well
Larry
Posted by: Larry Daley at November 17, 2008 05:43 PM
My grandmother called Havana's harbor "la llave de las Americas" the other day, which makes perfect sense considering Cuba's escudo.
Posted by: thinwhiteduke at November 17, 2008 06:59 PM
If these were the "Mambises". The last of them died some time in the 1980s. He was 109 years old, he had over a hundres great grandchildren and he was the last man alive of that time who had acutally seen and met Gen. Maceo.
Profesor Delacova, please confirm if I'm right about this.
Posted by: Lori at November 17, 2008 08:20 PM
Did you notice the use of "native"?
Posted by: rsnlk at November 17, 2008 08:25 PM