The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

Points of Pictures

6 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Points of Pictures

Sugar Plantation--Tobacco Fields--Royal Palms--Cocoanut Palms--Cuban Vegetation--Moro Castle Cell--Valley of the Yumuri--Santiago--Royal…

Points of Pictures: Island

This map furnishes an object lesson, showing by measurement with a familiar object, how great a space the unhappy Island, whose dramatic…

Points of Pictures: Havana

The fruit-stand in Havana shows the decorative make up of pine-apples, oranges and bananas, and also the style of portico, with massive and…

Points of Pictures: Columbus

The tower of the cathedral that is seen down the narrow street, and was built of white limestone, is the spire that we may regard as his…

Points of Pictures: Cuban

Santiago, it will be remembered, is the scene of the Virginius massacre, and the beauty of the place is referred to in the farewell letter…

Points of Pictures: Alfonso

A king squirting the garden hose on his mentor is the lively picture that a contemporary presents to us of the youthful ruler of Spain…

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