A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902

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The ceremonial changing of flags taking place at Havana’s El Morro castle, 20 May 1902. Source: Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, no. 22 (1996): 100 Spanish troops marching to the Havana waterfront on 1 January 1899, the day that had been set for their final departure from Cuba. Source: Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring, El libro de Cuba: Obra de propaganda nacional (Havana: n.p., 1925), 164 View of the Malecón in Havana, showing the bandstand and roundabout designed by Charles Brun, as well as an electric-powered streetcar running on the recently inaugurated line. Source: Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, no. 22 (1996): 101 View of the La Punta promontory, which juts out on one side of the entrance to Havana bay, and its seafront, with two streetcars running past it. Source: Cuba y América 5, no. 107, (December 1901): 94 Curious onlookers watch as the statue of Spain’s Queen Isabel II is removed and lowered from its pedestal in Havana’s Parque Central on 12 March 1899. Source: El Fígaro, no. 12, 26 March 1899, 74 A view of some of the crowds that gathered along the streets of Havana to witness and celebrate General Máximo Gómez’s entrance into the capital on 24 February 1899. The general and his entourage are making their way on horseback down Calle Obispo, one of the capital’s main commercial streets. Source: El Fígaro, nos. 9–11, 19 March 1899, 55 Women and children lead a procession by members of the Cuban National Party’s San Felipe Committee as they take part in a patriotic march with their new banner held aloft. Source: El Fígaro, no. 28, 24 July 1900, 346 A children’s chorus, from the Liceo de Camajuaní. As part of the festivities held in 1900 to commemorate the still unofficial national holiday of 10 October, the children sang the hymn “Patria.” Source: El Fígaro, no. 43, 18 November 1900, 326 Illustration by the caricaturist Torriente satirizing the prohibition authorities tried to enforce against couples’ holding each other in a tight embrace while performing the danzón. Source: El Fígaro, no. 13, 10 April 1900, 149 A view in 1899 of the front of the Crusellas shop on Calle Obispo in Havana, with its name advertised in English. Source: El Fígaro, no. 23, 11 June 1899, 192 A gathering of Cuban teachers on 3 July 1900, during their summer at Harvard. The group is standing at the foot of Boston’s “Washington Tree,” at which they placed a laurel wreath. Source: El Fígaro, no. 30, 12 August 1900, 366 A young woman in Matanzas displaying the “single star” in her hair and on the bodice of her dress. Source: Cuba y América, 11, no. 9, 28 June 1903, 485 Children seated in the classroom of their school in Havana, in 1900. Two Cuban flags hanging near the top of the front wall frame a picture of José Martí. Source: El Fígaro, no. 37, 7 October 1900, 451 The anthropologist Carlos de la Torre, flanked by his colleagues Luis Montané and José Montalvo, during their examination of Antonio Maceo’s skull, following the 17 September 1899 exhumation of his remains. Source: El Fígaro, no. 36, 24 September 1899, 358 A civic procession of 28 January 1899 in Havana, held to commemorate the forty-sixth anniversary of the birth of José Martí (1853–95). At its front, two women carry the Cuban and U.S. flags, respectively. Source: El Fígaro, nos. 9–11, 19 March 1899, 50 The coffin holding the body of General Calixto García 9 February 1899 as it was placed on a gun carriage, prior to the general’s burial and after the vigil held over his remains in Havana’s town hall. Source: El Fígaro, nos. 9–11, 19 March 1899, 57 Havana’s El Morro castle, where the Cuban national flag was raised and flew for the first time on the day Tomás Estrada Palma arrived in the city to assume the presidency of the Republic of Cuba. Source: Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring, El libro de Cuba...