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Cuba with pen and pencil

Title: Cuba with pen and pencil / by Samuel Hazard.
Author: Hazard, Samuel, 1834-1876.
Publication: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, 1873.

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Sc Rare 917.291-H (Hazard, S. Cuba with pen and pencil)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors

Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, publisher.

Description

[2], 584 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

Siempre fiel isla

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Note

At head of title: "La siempre fiel isla."
"Gazetteer of the island of Cuba"--p. 563-579.

Bibliography (note)

"List of works pertaining to Cuba used or quoted in this volume"--p. v.

Provenance (note)

is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Hints to travelers -- En route -- Hotel life in Havana -- Bathing and riding in Havana -- Havana, past and present -- Markets of Havana -- Inside the walls -- The churches of Havana -- Outside the walls -- Havana factories, La Honradez, shops, etc. -- Street sights -- Havana by night -- Sunday amusements -- The Plaza de Toros -- All about cigars -- A short chapter on drinks -- Forts and soldiers -- Government and administration of Cuba and Havana -- The suburbs of Havana -- Matanzas -- Matanzas sight-seeing -- Carnival in Matanzas -- The vicinity of Matanzas, Madruga, etc. -- Cardenas, Sagua, and Villa Clara -- Vuelta Abajo, Guanajay -- Life on a sugar estate -- Sugar-making -- Baths of San Diego -- A trip to the Isle of Pines -- The south coast to Trinidad -- Trinidad de Cuba -- From Trinidad to Santiago de Cuba -- The town of Cuba -- The Cobre Mines -- Nuestra Senora de la Caridad del Cobre -- Life in the coffee mountains -- coffee growing -- From Cuba to Nuevitas, via north coast -- Puerto Principe -- Rural life and customs -- A general view of Cuba -- Appendix.

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