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Vintage Glass Slides Cuba Sugar Cane Plantation Atkins Lot 1800s Lot of 16 Rare
- Good condition with some light wear and flaking on these slides due to age and storage. Features numerous shots of Spanish Guard Soldiers, the cane plantation and operation and even a city scene.
In the late 19th century, Boston merchant Edwin F. Atkins was a dominant force in the U.S.-Cuban sugar market. His firm, E. Atkins & Co., established sugarcane plantations along the southern coast of Cuba near the cities of Cienfuegos and Trinidad. From the 1840s through the 1920s, the Atkins family successfully operated their sugar business on the island, safely seeing it through the abolition of slavery, Cuba\'s fight for independence from Spain, and the changing agricultural and industrial practices of sugar production.
The slides \\ photographs were taken and collected by members of the Atkins family in Cuba between 1884 and 1958. This collection, the Atkins Family Photographs, is a unique visual record of life and work on sugar plantations in Cubaduring the late 19th and early 20th centuries.In addition, these photographs also capture the changing face of Cuba before and after the Spanish-American War
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